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5:05 PM ET, May 14, 2013

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Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks  —  CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that apparently differs …
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CNN:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks  —  CNN has obtained an email sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama, in which the aide discusses the Obama administration reaction to the attack on the U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya.  The actual email differs …
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
White House stuck on IRS scandal response
Discussion: CNN, Guardian, msnbc.com and The Hill
Dylan Byers / Politico:
KMOV anchor: The IRS is targeting me  —  Larry Connors, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted with President Obama — a fact that he dismissed as coincidence until …
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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 …
Steven T. Miller / USA Today:
IRS: ‘We should have done a better job’
Facebook:
Larry Conners KMOV · 4,761 like this
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
The Real I.R.S. Scandal
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups
Lauren French / Politico:
IRS head Steven Miller: ‘Mistakes were made’
Discussion: Reuters and CNN
Associated Press:
Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into I.R.S. Audits  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to open an investigation into whether Internal Revenue Service officials broke any criminal laws by singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Eric Holder Recuses Himself From Leak Investigation  —  Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation.  He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.  Fox News is reporting his recusal comes partially …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Holder recused himself from DOJ decision to seize AP records
Discussion: The Verge and Outside the Beltway
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney: Obama believes the press ‘needs to be unfettered’
CNN:
Holder orders IRS investigation
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.
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.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Nobody's Laughing Now  —  How pervasive is the Obama IRS scandal?  —  David Plouffe had an intriguing comment yesterday on the scandal involving selective tax-law enforcement against Tea Party groups.  The manager of the 2008 Obama campaign who served as a top White House aide until this January …
Discussion: National Review and Yourish.com
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Understanding the Politics of the IRS Scandal
Discussion: The Week
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
NAACP Chair Emeritus: ‘Legitimate’ For IRS To Target ‘Admittedly Racist’ Tea Party: ‘Taliban Wing’ Of Politics
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
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.
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP defies Boehner on special Benghazi panel  —  House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.  —  A growing number of members …
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World  —  They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.  —  Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members …
Discussion: Gothamist
Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
Obama's New Political Reality Is Bad News for Dems in 2014  —  Forget background checks and gun control, divisions within the GOP on immigration, and Republican intransigence on negotiating a budget deal with the president.  The current triple play of Benghazi, the IRS and now the Justice Department's seizure …
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Janine Stanwood / WPLG-TV:
North Miami mayoral candidate touts endorsement from Jesus Christ  —  Anna L. Pierre is one of seven candidates vying to replace Andre Pierre  —  Author: Steve Owen, Assistant News Director, sowen@local10.com  —  Benjamin Candea, Senior Web Producer, bcandea@local10.com … NORTH MIAMI, Fla. -
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.
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Bill Hader to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  With just one departure, “Saturday Night Live” is losing its excitable “Weekend Update” city correspondent, Stefon; its frenetic incarnations of James Carville, Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange; and any number of unctuous, self-satisfied game-show hosts.
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in on Benghazi last night, saying the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was “one of the worst incidences” he could recall.
 
 
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