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Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 — months before last year’s the Presidential election. Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it...

After a week filled with political scandals, President Obama turned to promoting his jobs tour in his weekly address Saturday. “That’s why I like getting out of the Washington echo chamber whenever I can – because too often, our politics aren’t focused on the same...

The Internal Revenue Service planted a question at an American Bar Association conference in order to reveal that it had inappropriately targeted conservative groups prior to the 2012 elections.  But members of Congress are questioning why they weren’t told earlier. The question that prompted Lois...

Lawmakers Wednesday came down hard on military leaders, the morning after allegations emerged of another head of a military sexual assault prevention program engaging in the very behavior he was charged with stopping. Late Tuesday  the Army announced that the coordinator of a sexual assault prevention program at...

The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News. As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea...

Andy Borowitz / Borowitz Report:
Obama Denies Role in Government  —  WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.  —  “Right now, many of you are angry at the government …

NBC News:
May 19: Mitch McConnell, Dan Pfeiffer, Dave Camp, Xavier Becerra, Peggy Noonan, Bob Woodward, Donald Rumsfled  —  Below:  —  MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, damage control by the White House on several fronts.  How much harm will it do to the president's second term agenda?

Benjamin Bell / ABCNEWS:
Dan Pfeiffer: IRS Behavior ‘Inexcusable’ Whether or Not Illegal  —  This morning on “This Week,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service is “irrelevant,” …

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Jon Karl got played by a confidential source and now ABC News has a big Benghazi problem  —  “His colleagues at other news organizations know it.  His friends at the network, were they real friends, would try to talk him out of this disastrous state of denial.”

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama urges Morehouse grads to lead by ‘the power of your example’  —  ATLANTA - President Obama on Sunday urged graduates of Morehouse College to use “the power of your example” to help others less fortunate.  —  Speaking at the historically black all-male college in Georgia's capital …

Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
This Is the Biggest Mistake 60-Year Old Men Make About the Economy  —  I checked, and re-checked, and triple-checked, and I can confirm that it's not 1979 anymore.  —  Now, that shouldn't be too surprising — I'm not writing this on an Apple II, after all — but it is to a generation of men …

CNN:
ABC's Jonathan Karl to CNN: ‘I regret the email was quoted incorrectly’  —  (CNN) - Jonathan Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, addressed criticism of his reporting on the Benghazi talking points controversy, saying in a statement to CNN that he regrets the inaccuracy of his report.

Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion  —  Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.  —  Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said.  Tumblr would continue to operate largely …

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Pfeiffer on IRS Scandal: ‘Law Is Irrelevant’  —  Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer was asked on TV this morning whether he thinks the IRS actions violated the law:  —  “Look, I can't speak to the law here,” he said.  “The law is irrelevant.  The activity was outrageous and inexcusable.”

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Taxing Times for Obama  —  WASHINGTON — I WENT to New York last week to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows like “Scandal,” “Shark Tank” and a faltering “American Idol.”  —  I may as well have stayed here.  —  You know that the faltering American idol in the White House must be reeling in this scandalous spring.