Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:10 AM ET, May 20, 2013

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
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.
RELATED:
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?
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  —  Lobbyists, constituents, and journalists are often seen roaming the halls of Congress, but who has access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?  The answer is a little clearer with the publication of White House visitor access records.  To date, the Obama administration …
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Top Obama lawyer told of IRS targeting in April
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Scared Monkeys
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.
RELATED:
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
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
RELATED:
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.
RELATED:
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.
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
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 Fund / National Review:
Three Signs There's a Cover-Up  —  The late columnist William Safire once said that a good clue that someone in Washington was engaged in “an artful dodge,” i.e., a cover-up, was that they used the phrase “mistakes were made.”  Safire defined it as a “passive-evasive way of acknowledging error …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:10 AM ET, May 20, 2013.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Fresh Israeli Face Plays Down Dimming of Political Star
Discussion: Israpundit and The Times of Israel
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
New York Times:
Yahoo Is Said to Be Buying Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
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
 Earlier Items: 
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market
Discussion: Gawker and Gothamist
New York Times:
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
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill

Scott Nover / Fast Company:
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page