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2:45 AM ET, June 3, 2013

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Daily Mail:
IRS employee in bombshell congressional interviews about tea party targeting: ‘Washington, DC wanted some cases ... I sent seven’  —  Interviews with IRS employees have established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
CNN Host Corners Darrell Issa Over Claim That Obama Conspired To Target Tea Party  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) claimed on Sunday that political officials in the Obama administration directed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in Cincinnati …
House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform:
Oversight & Government Reform  —  Issa Talks IRS Targeting Investigation, Previews Thursday's IRS Conference Spending Hearing on CNN SOTU  —  WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) revealed new testimony from IRS employees in Cincinnati involved …
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
‘Tea party’ tempest brewing  —  The movement is as fired up as ever — and just as unwilling to compromise.  That could spell trouble for the Republican Party.  —  A woman wearing guitar-styled sunglasses attends the Myrtle Beach Tea Party protest at the Internal Revenue Service office.
Byron Tau / Politico:
Issa dismisses Carney as a ‘paid liar’
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Issa slams Carney as a ‘paid liar’
Discussion: Reuters
Catherine Shoard / Guardian:
Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer  —  Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer  —  Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus  —  James Ball: is Douglas right about cunnilingus cancer link?
David Waldman / Daily Kos:
GunFAIL XX  —  This week's image is courtesy of The TSA Blog, and features six of the 29 guns discovered by TSA agents at airports across the country this week.  That's how many Responsible Gun OwnersTM claim to have completely forgotten about that object to which they otherwise claim …
NBC News:
June 2: Mike Rogers, Chuck Schumer, David Axelrod, Marsha Blackburn, Jonathan Alter, Ana Navarro, Tom Friedman  —  Below:  —  MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, national security versus freedom of the press.  The tension and the political fallout as the attorney general appears to backtrack.
Discussion: Althouse
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Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
Congresswoman Opposes Pay Equity Laws Because Women 'Don't Want The Decisions Made In Washington'  —  Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) offered an odd view on women's paycheck fairness and equity laws on Sunday, suggesting that federal legislation on workplace equity is condescending to women who are well-qualified for the workplace.
Discussion: The Raw Story and Mediaite
NY Daily News:
Cryin' Wolf at CNN!  Sources say viewers will see less of veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer and more of younger, hunkier newsmen  —  Studly Chris Cuomo and handsome Jake Tapper will likely get more airtime.  New boss Jeff Zucker has already fired James Carville, Mary Matalin and Roland Martin
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
The Ten Suggestions  —  It's nice to be back at Princeton.  I find it difficult to believe that it's been almost 11 years since I departed these halls for Washington.  I wrote recently to inquire about the status of my leave from the university, and the letter I got back began, “Regrettably …
Discussion: Wonkblog and Calculated Risk
New York Times:
Goals to Fulfill and Foes to Foil Keep Holder Going  —  WASHINGTON — At the end of last year, with the election decided and the Obama administration in office for four more years, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. considered stepping down.  He decided against it, in part because before he left …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Goodlatte: House Judiciary ‘very concerned’ about possible Holder perjury
Russell Berman / The Hill:   Schumer predicts Gang of Eight immigration bill will pass Senate by July 4
BBC:
Clashes mar protests across Turkey  —  Tens of thousands of people have staged a third day of protests in Turkish towns and cities.  —  Police again used tear gas and water cannon in some areas, including in Istanbul, where crowds had converged on the prime minister's office.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What's Happening In Turkey?
New York Times:
Sunni-Shiite Violence Flares in Mideast in Wake of Syria War  —  BAGHDAD — Renewed sectarian killing has brought the highest death toll in Iraq in five years.  Young Iraqi scholars at a Shiite Muslim seminary volunteer to fight Sunnis in Syria.  Far to the west, in Lebanon …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
McCain: Assad now holds ‘upper hand’
Discussion: Politico
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Rubio wants stronger border security in immigration reform bill  —  The Florida Republican is working on a proposal that would give Congress, not the Obama administration, control over developing a plan.  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, and other senators attend a news conference on immigration at the Capitol.
 
 
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