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6:35 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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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 …
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?
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Tea party gets boost from IRS controversy
Discussion: The Hill and Weasel Zippers
Joe Klein / TIME:   Sorting Out the Scandals  —  The irs's targeting of Tea Party groups …
Manu Raju / Politico:
Obama's newest ally: John McCain
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
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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Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The D.O.J. Versus James Rosen  —  The Washington Post reported today that, in the course of a leak investigation of a State Department employee who allegedly provided Fox News's James Rosen with classified information, the Obama Justice Department not only subpoenaed Rosen's private e-mails …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Holder walks fine line on prosecuting journalists
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Fox News: ‘We Will Unequivocally Defend’ Rosen Against ‘Chilling’ DOJ Investigation
Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Raw Story
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.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Hillary '16 Campaign Off to Excellent Start  —  Breaking news: according to a report in today's Washington Post, Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidency in 2016 have increased by approximately a zillion percent, due to the fact that her former chief strategist Mark Penn …
Robert Costa / National Review:
The Impeachment Option  —  Representative Jason Chaffetz …
Discussion: Yahoo! News, Politico and Daily Kos
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Hillary's Benghazi ‘Scapegoat’ Speaks Out  —  Raymond Maxwell, the only official at the State Department's bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job after the attacks, tells Josh Rogin that he's been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton's team.  —  Following the attack in Benghazi …
The Atlantic Online:
How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America  —  “Convenient race-talk” from a president who ought to know better  —  The first lady went to Bowie State and addressed the graduating class.  Her speech was a mix of black history and a salute to the graduates.  There was also this:
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Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
How Obama Handles Crisis
Discussion: The Dish and The Moderate Voice
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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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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Bill Keller / New York Times:
How to Legalize Pot  —  THE first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at U.C.L.A., was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea.  Sure, he said, the government should remove penalties for possession, use and cultivation of small amounts.
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 …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Greenroom
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US Department of State:
TRANSCRIPT:  —  MS. PSAKI: Pretty color, Jill.  It's very bright.
Discussion: emptywheel
Josh Margolin / ABCNEWS:
Cincinnati Ground Zero of Exploding IRS Scandal, But Answers Hard to Find  —  The John Weld Peck Federal Building is shown in Cincinnati, May 14, 2013.  It houses the main offices for the Internal Revenue Service in the city.  (Al Behrman/AP Photo)  —  Welcome to Cincinnati - Ground zero of the exploding IRS scandal.
Discussion: Riehl World News and The PJ Tatler
 
 
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