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9:50 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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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters:
Schieffer to Obama Advisor: 'Why Are You Here?  Why Isn't the White House Chief of Staff Here?'  —  As NewsBusters reported two weeks ago, CBS's Bob Schieffer is fed up with the White House's talking points concerning what happened at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
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 and msnbc.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  —  “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,” the Washington Post reports.
Discussion: Riehl World News
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
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
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Union for immigration enforcement officers to oppose Senate bill  —  A union which represents an estimated 12,000 immigration enforcement officers announced Monday it would oppose the Senate's Gang of Eight immigration reform legislation.  —  In a statement, National Citizenship …
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.”
New York Times:
Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets  —  WASHINGTON — Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China's People's Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed …
Discussion: BBC and The Verge
Meghan E. Irons / The Boston Globe:
Harvard students erupt at scholar's claim in thesis  —  Thesis asserted Latino immigrants have lower IQs  —  Harvard students, outraged over a doctoral dissertation arguing that Hispanic immigrants lack “raw cognitive ability or intelligence,” this week urged the university to investigate …
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm … REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON  —  Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security …
Discussion: Firedoglake and CBS DC
New York Times:
Yahoo Is Said to Be Buying Tumblr for $1.1 Billion  —  By NICK BILTON and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED  —  Yahoo's board has agreed to buy Tumblr, the popular blogging service, for about $1.1 billion in cash, people with knowledge of the agreement said on Sunday.
Discussion: DealBook, NYT Bits and Joe. My. God.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Va. pick bemoaned ‘slavish devotion’
Salon:
Paul Krugman's right: Austerity kills
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market
Discussion: Gawker and Gothamist
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Eric Holder's liberation
Discussion: NewsBusters
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
AP CEO calls records seizure ‘unconstitutional’
Jake Miller / CBS News:
Republicans use IRS scandal to tar Obamacare
Discussion: The Raw Story
Andy Borowitz / Borowitz Report:
Obama Denies Role in Government
NBC News:
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CNN:
ABC's Jonathan Karl to CNN: ‘I regret the email was quoted incorrectly’
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