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10:50 AM ET, May 20, 2013

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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Counsel Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago  —  The White House's chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday.
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Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?  —  “For me, it's about collaboration.”  — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House  —  Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Discussion: Politico and The Jawa Report
New York Times:
I.R.S. Inquiry Status Told to White House in April  —  WASHINGTON — The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, weeks before the matter became public …
Discussion: Politico, First Read and msnbc.com
US News:
White House Visitor Log
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Top Obama lawyer told of IRS targeting in April
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
‘Hell week’ for the White House? Reaction from Dan Pfeiffer and Rep. Paul Ryan
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe  —  When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
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Peter Hart / FAIR:
A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News  —  Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement  —  Conservatives don't just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias.  They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Justice Department Spied on Fox News Reporter
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Riehl World News
Associated Press:
AP CEO calls records seizure ‘unconstitutional’
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Firedoglake
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse College speech  —  President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Prepared text for President Obama's speech at Morehouse
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Columbia University Tries To Alter Scholarship Fund For Students ‘Of The Caucasian Race’  —  Columbia University asked a Manhattan judge to allow them to change the requirements of a scholarship fund which limits recipients to members “of the Caucasian race.”
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
The 10 Most Anti-Gay Statements From The Republican Nominee For Lt. Governor Of Virginia  —  The Virginia Republican Party picked conservative minister E.W. Jackson as their nominee for lieutenant governor Saturday night.  Jackson will run alongside Ken Cuccinelli.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Push For Hemp Legalization In Senate Fight  —  WASHINGTON — Kentucky's two senators, Republicans Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, have been working to include a provision that would legalize industrial hemp into the farm bill, according to Senate and Kentucky sources …
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Four key Hillary Clinton staffers from 2008 unlikely to sign on for 2016 bid  —  Howard Wolfson, the 2008 communications director for Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said he will not return for a 2016 presidential campaign.  Neither, for that matter, will Neera Tanden, the campaign's policy director.
Salon:
Paul Krugman's right: Austerity kills  —  Austerity kills — radical cuts destroy economies and lives, and the honest numbers and economics keep proving it  —  Excerpted from “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills”  —  “I will never forgive them,” wrote 13-year-old Kieran McArdle to the Daily Record …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
How Much Are Obama's Scandals Hurting Him?  —  Is Obama being hurt by the scandals that have engulfed his administration?  That sounds like a silly question: of course the scandals have damaged his image, thrown his administration off message, weakened his ability to get anything through Congress.
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and CANNONFIRE
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS's Lois Lerner  —  In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury Inspector General's report and congressional testimony Friday …
Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Fresh Israeli Face Plays Down Dimming of Political Star  —  TEL AVIV — To say Yair Lapid has been on a roller coaster would be an understatement.  One recent headline blared about his “meteoric rise and fall,” another said he had gone from “political darling to national whipping boy.”
Discussion: Israpundit and The Times of Israel
 
 
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Shahien Nasiripour / The Huffington Post:
Kirsten Gillibrand Aims To Jumpstart Student Loan Refinancings With New Bill
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Congressmembers Work To Prevent Anti-Choice ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ From Misleading Women
Discussion: Associated Press
John Fund / National Review:
Three Signs There's a Cover-Up
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Union for immigration enforcement officers to oppose Senate bill
Free exchange:
Der Elefant im Raum
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong
Fox News:
Two IRS Offices Targeted Hawaii GOP Leader At Same Time
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way
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Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets
Discussion: BBC and The Verge
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm
Discussion: CBS DC and Firedoglake
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Eric Holder's liberation
Discussion: NewsBusters
Meghan E. Irons / The Boston Globe:
Harvard students erupt at scholar's claim in thesis
Andy Borowitz / Borowitz Report:
Obama Denies Role in Government