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4:20 PM 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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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Senior W.H. staff knew of IRS investigation, did not tell Obama  —  Senior White House staff knew of the ongoing investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups ahead of the release of a report from a Treasury Department inspector general, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday …
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
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?
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 …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Presidential scandals, only in the minds of Republicans  —  Over the weekend, CNN released the first extensive national polling on the “scandals” that have gripped Washington, and it got a bit of a bounce yesterday over two key findings.  First, Obama's approval rating is holding steady …
Robert Costa / National Review:
The Impeachment Option  —  Representative Jason Chaffetz …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
How the IRS seeded the clouds in 2010 for a political deluge three years later
Discussion: The Week
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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Fox News:
Justice Department affidavit labels Fox News journalist as possible ‘co-conspirator’  —  A Fox News correspondent was labeled in a Justice Department affidavit as a possible “co-conspirator” for his alleged role in publishing sensitive security information — in a leak case that takes …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Holder walks fine line on prosecuting journalists
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Obama DOJ accuses journalist of committing crimes
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Fox News Insider
Lori Ziganto / Twitchy:   Chilling report: Obama's DOJ spied on Fox News' James Rosen; Criminalizes reporting; Update: Fox issues statement
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
UPDATED: Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Introduced Bill Forcing Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police  —  If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
The 10 Most Anti-Gay Statements From The Republican Nominee For Lt. Governor Of Virginia
Matt Mullenweg:
On Yahoo-Tumblr  —  It now looks pretty certain that Yahoo has pulled off a deal to buy Tumblr for 1.1B.  The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook …
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David / Tumblr Staff:
News!  —  Everyone, I'm elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.  —  Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We're not turning purple.  Our headquarters isn't moving.  Our team isn't changing.  Our roadmap isn't changing.
Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed:
7 Juicy Claims From A Romney Campaign Insider's New Book  —  Former policy aide Gabriel Schoenfeld's new book, A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account , blames Romney's staff for his defeat.  Romney aides have dismissed the account , saying Schoenfeld was not as high …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
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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 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 …
Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
How Obama Handles Crisis  —  The handwringers and bed wetters in the D.C. punditocracy should know that Barack Obama will never be on their timeline, says his longtime speechwriter Jon Favreau.  —  Honestly, they act like it's his first crisis.  —  Sometime after the infamous Denver debate last fall …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Dish
Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:
The Good News About Race and Voting  —  Election polling data show that few Americans of any race report any problems casting a ballot.  —  In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South …
Jillian Kay Melchior / National Review:
True Scandal  —  Catherine Engelbrecht's tale has all the markings of a classic conspiracy theory: She says she thinks that because of her peaceful political activity, she and her family was targeted for scrutiny by hostile federal agencies.  —  Yet as news emerges that the Internal Revenue Service wielded …
Donald Gilliland / PennLive.com:
Lewis Butts busted for campaign sign caper  —  Democratic mayoral hopeful Lewis Butts meets with the PennLive/Patriot-News editorial board on April 12, 2013.  Christine Baker |  cbaker@pennlive.com (Christine Baker)  —  Harrisburg mayoral candidate Lewis L. Butts, Jr. has been charged …
Discussion: Gawker
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
State Dept. Spokeswoman Refuses to Criticize Iran for Excluding Women Candidates from Election  —  State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to criticize Iran for excluding women candidates from the upcoming “election” there.  The remarkable exchange, which concludes with Psaki saying this …
Joe Klein / TIME:
Sorting Out the Scandals  —  The irs's targeting of Tea Party groups is, however, an actual full-blown scandal.  In fact, it is several scandals.  The most obvious one was the lunkheaded effort by midlevel IRS employees to use an ideological shortcut—auditing groups with Tea Party and Patriots …
 
 
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Packing the D.C. Circuit
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
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