“Did you see that Jon Karl, um, exclusive?”
President Obama and Attorney General Holder attend the 32nd annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the West Front Lawn at the U.S. Capitol, May 15
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Two Bush-appointees, the IRS commissioner and deputy commissioner, are gone. Next, Lois Lerner, the Bush-appt’d head of 501c4 division.
— roadkillrefugee (@rkref) May 15, 2013
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@anamariecox No one at the IRS would have done anything wrong if Obama had just taken the House leadership to Camp David for a drink. Duh.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 15, 2013
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You gotta love the media: In the 18th paragraph……
Steve Benen: USA Today had an item today on the IRS controversy, which seemed to reinforce much of what we already know: conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status faced unfair and unreasonable scrutiny. But deep in the article, in the 18th paragraph, USA Today added seven unexpected words: “Some liberal groups did get additional scrutiny.”
More here
Mind you, plenty of places didn’t mention this at all today
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Can’t stand Wiegel, but liked this….
“Obama needs to fire somebody.” “Okay, I fired somebody.” “Obama needs to stop looking for scapegoats.”
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 15, 2013
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NPR: The Justice Department’s subpoena of Associated Press phone records as part of an investigation into what Attorney General Eric Holder has called “a very grave leak” to the news agency has set off a political firestorm on Capitol Hill, but there’s a lot to the AP story published a year ago that started it all.
….. as NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston reports, there’s much more to the story:
“As we understood it then and still understand it, that suicide bomber that AP refers to in its story was actually a double agent working with western intelligence agencies,” Dina says.
Although the double-agent did hand the new underwear bomb technology to U.S. officials, “they had hoped the agent could do more [and] … one consequence of the story is that this agent’s identity was blown,” she says.
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So, when can we see the WH emails regarding Iraq WMD?
— BWD (@theonlyadult) May 15, 2013
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