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10:40 AM ET, May 14, 2013

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Mark Sherman / bigstory.ap.org:
GOVT OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE  —  You are here  —  Home » Government and politics » Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press …
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Washington Post:
IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups  —  Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups  —  Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Panopticon President  —  A new critique emerges.  Fear of a narrow new government power at a scary moment.  —  Less than four months into President Barack Obama's second term, the hazy perception of a government reaching further and further into individuals' lives in an era of broad …
Discussion: Instapundit and Yahoo! News
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Journalists fume over DOJ raid on AP  —  Journalists on Monday called the news the Justice Department seized records from phone lines assigned to Associated Press offices and its reporters over a two month period “chilling” and a “dragnet to intimidate the media.”
Lauren French / Politico:
IRS head Steven Miller: ‘Mistakes were made’  —  Steven Miller is breaking his silence about the scandal that's engulfing the Internal Revenue Service.  —  Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, is quickly emerging as the focus of fury in Washington after an agency official acknowledged …
Discussion: Reuters
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest?  —  TPM Reader SS thinks there's some game-playing from the AP on this phone call record story ...  I think there's still a very live question of whether this was a prudent action on the part of the DOJ, as maximal restraint should always be used when subpoenaing journalistic records.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
ProPublica:
IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups
John Cassidy / News Desk:
A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre of Big Brother
New York Times:
Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
AP calls government's record seizure a ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
Politico:   IRS mess adds to campaign finance free-for-all
Fox News:
Lawmakers rip Justice Department over AP phone records grab
Justin SInk / The Hill:
White House: ‘No knowledge’ of AP phone record seizure
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Angelina Jolie / New York Times:
My Medical Choice  —  MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56.  She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms.  But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’  —  “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.”  —  Once again, it appears that we must parse a few presidential words.  We went through this question at length during the 2012 election, but perhaps a refresher course is in order.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul: IRS staffers responsible for targeting should be fired  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he would push for a Senate resolution demanding that those responsible for the IRS targeting conservative political groups be fired and “made an example of.”
Discussion: Politico
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Rep. Issa: ‘How dare’ Obama say he can fairly investigate IRS scandal
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gingrich: IRS targeting scandal ‘huge problem’ for ObamaCare
Discussion: Reuters and LewRockwell.com Blog
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi: If Boehner Were A Woman, They'd Call Him ‘Weakest Speaker In History’ (VIDEO)  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has drawn no shortage of critics - even within his own party — but his predecessor thinks he's getting off easy.  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:   Pelosi: ObamaCare ‘largely responsible’ for bringing down deficit
The Huffington Post:   Nancy Pelosi: If John Boehner Were A Woman, People Would Call Him ‘The Weakest Speaker In History’
RT:
CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow - FSB  —  Russia's counterintelligence agency has detained a CIA agent in Moscow trying to recruit an officer of the Russian secret service, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced.  The agent was operating under guise of career diplomat.
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CBS News:
Russia spy agency claims CIA agent arrested for trying to recruit Russian agent in Moscow
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
You want a scandal?  Here's a scandal.  —  Want a real Washington scandal — one worse than the (phony) Benghazi scandal and the (apparently real, but apparently limited) IRS scandals combined?  Try the continuing, and possibly accelerating, obstruction of executive branch nominees by Senate Republicans.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Senate Democrats: Nuclear option for filibuster is back on the table
M.L. Johnson / greenbaypressgazette.com:
7-year-old boy gets handwritten letter from Biden  —  MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin boy wrote Vice President Joe Biden with an unusual suggestion for making the nation safer: Create guns that shoot chocolate bullets.  —  On Monday, he got an unusual response: A handwritten note from Biden on vice presidential stationery.
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union  —  Overview  —  The European Union is the new sick man of Europe.  The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis.  The European project now stands in disrepute across much of Europe.
FLNation / The Florida Nation:
RNC FL Hispanic Director is Now a Democrat  —  I've known Pablo Pantoja for years.  We were both in the same graduate program at Florida State University.  We bonded because we were both also state employees at the time.  However, Pantoja had another, another job.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Pentagon cuts furloughs to 11 days  —  The Pentagon is reducing the number of furlough days for most of its civilian employees to 11 days, according to a senior defense official.  —  The number of furloughs that the majority of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilians will be required to take in 2013 …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Jessica Farris / TheDenverChannel.com:
Aurora PD: Student suffers ‘significant injury’ in accidental shooting at Rangeview High parking lot  —  Gun fired as man tried to put it in glove box  —  AURORA, Colo. - Aurora police are investigating an accidental shooting that happened in the parking lot of Rangeview High School and left one student injured Monday.
Discussion: The Raw Story
 
 
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