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4:50 PM ET, May 17, 2013

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Major Garrett / CBS News:
WH Benghazi emails have different quotes than earlier reported  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called Thursday for tighter security for U.S. diplomatic facilities to prevent an attack like the one in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans' Attention to IRS, Benghazi Stories Below Average  —  Most Americans, however, say both deserve continuing investigation  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54%) …
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To Suggest A Cover-Up, Reporter Confirms  —  Since September, Republicans have claimed the Obama administration covered up the truth about the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya by altering the talking points Susan Rice used on the Sunday morning talk shows.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Woodward: IRS scandal ‘a big mess’ but ‘not yet’ Watergate
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Yahoo! News:
IRS asked anti-abortion group about content of public prayers  —  While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about its members' prayer meetings, documents sent by an IRS official to the organization reveal.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Question that revealed IRS scandal was planted, chief admits
Discussion: The Week and Riehl World News
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Officials on Benghazi: “We made mistakes, but without malice”  —  Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012 acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Elizabeth Warren Slams ‘Dangerous’ Legislation That Would Weaken Wall Street Reform  —  A week after a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly approved a rollback of certain financial reforms contained in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:   Warren opposes derivatives bills with House traction
Toronto Star:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal  —  A video that appears to show Toronto's mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade. … This photo shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford with a man who, according to a source, is fatal gunshot victim Anthony Smith.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Stevens: Rationale for Bush v. Gore was “unacceptable”  —  The former Supreme Court justice speaks out on John Roberts and the case that decided the 2000 election  —  Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Thursday night that he's come to the realization that the rationale behind …
Discussion: Addicting Info
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
BREAKING: The Scandals are Falling Apart!  —  So says Ezra Klein, who may turn out to be one of the stupidest people ever to be given column inches in a printed medium of any variety.  —  After reading Klein's desperate attempt to map onto reality his own desires, written in the form …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid eyeing July for the ‘nuclear option’  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is increasingly focused on the month of July as the time to exercise the so-called “nuclear option” and revisit filibuster reform, and he has privately told top advisers that he's all but certain to take action …
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Even Obama's umbrellas are a scandal now  —  Even President Obama's use of umbrellas has become a scandal in the eyes of some Republicans.  —  On Thursday, during a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, Obama signaled to two Marines and asked them to protect him and his guest from the rain.
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Kinsley loves austerity because it is “spinach”  —  The liberal pundit supports a worthless international initiative  —  So the other day Paul Krugman had a long, very good piece in the New York Review of Books on the arguments and flawed research used to justify austerity measures …
New York Times:
Russia Sends More Advanced Missiles to Aid Assad in Syria  —  WASHINGTON — Russia has shipped an advanced antiship cruise missile to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, American officials said on Thursday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Russia Raises Stakes in Syria
Marketplace.org:
Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld  —  To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed.  — Subscribe to podcast - Download audio - Embed player - Audio player assistance - Pop-Up  —  Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld published his memoir, “Known and Unknown” in 2011.
Discussion: Mediaite, AMERICAblog and The Dish
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi auditor Thomas Pickering  —  The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn't interview Hillary Clinton.  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa …
Ed Fischer / CBS Philly:
Center City Job Fair For Ex-Offenders Is Canceled After 3,000 Show Up  —  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The City of Philadelphia shut down a career fair for ex-offenders today after an unexpected crowd of thousands showed up, résumés in hand.  —  There were lots of disppointed job seekers and potential employers this morning.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
NRCC raises $5.1 million in April  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee had its best off-year fundraising total for April in the past decade.  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $5.1 million in April, the committee's best off-year April in the past decade.
Discussion: Post Politics and Roll Call
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Reporter Turned White House Spokesman Enjoys the Hot Seat  —  WASHINGTON — For the better part of a decade, Jay Carney sat slumped in his tiny chair in the White House briefing room, parsing, challenging and at times pillorying the words of an array of press secretaries.
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Rewriting History: GOP Senator Pretends He Voted For Expanded Background Checks  —  On his Facebook page Friday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) denied he ever voted against strengthened background checks amid blacklash over his opposition to the bipartisan Manchey-Toomey background checks amendment.
Michael Kinsley / New Republic:
LGBT PC  —  Being against marriage equality doesn't make you a monster  —  One reason the idea of gay marriage, or “marriage equality,” spread so fast is that it seems obvious once you think about it.  It was a genuinely new idea when it first appeared in this publication in 1989.
 
 
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Obama: We can't get distracted
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FLOTUS speaks to college graduates
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New York Times:
New Jersey Hospital Is the Costliest in the Nation
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Jimmy Carter Endorses SAM, Opposes Marijuana Legalization
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White House counsel should resign if she knew about IRS abuses
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