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@chrislhayes the most exciting thing to happen at a tax lawyers conference since...ever
IRS Official Lois Lerner Called Lawyer To Plant Targeting Question livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/irs-offi… via @ericlach
MT @rachelweinerwp: Sixth Circuit rules that the Fair Sentencing Act should be applied retroactively 1.usa.gov/12hw29W cc: @RobertKurtz
RT @AmandaMarcotte: I wonder how Todd Akin is coping with the repeated pregnancies reported from the Cleveland kidnapping. #WISCFI
as usual, bribery is cheap: .67% of the take RT @mattyglesias: Now *this* is a federal employee misconduct scandal: nytimes.com/aponline/2013/…
Va. Postal Official Sentenced for Taking Bribes
nytimes.com — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former U.S. Postal Service official has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting at least $40,000 in bribes to help a Maryland company receive $6 million in contracts. Forty-eight-year-old Gene Quarles of Spotsylvania pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court in Alexandria to bribery of a public official.
Harry Reid eyeing July for the `nuclear option’ washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
Harry Reid eyeing July for the `nuclear option’
washingtonpost.com — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is increasingly focused on the month of July as the time to exercise the so-called "nuclear option" and revisit filibuster reform, and he has privately told top advisers that he's all but certain to take action if the Senate GOP blocks three upcoming key nominations, a senior Senate Democratic aide familiar with his thinking tells me.
@pourmecoffee so cool -- glad they used a high-energy narrator on that vid ...zzzzzzz
RT @EllenBarryNYT: Former CIA case officer complains that wo tech support for disguise, “you come out looking like a gay mad scientist.” ht…
Ryan Fogle: CIA Spy Arrested with Goofy Blond Wig
newrepublic.com — While Moscow slept, and Washington slept, a man named, as far as we know, Ryan Christopher Fogle, who had been, as far as we know, a third secretary in the political section at the American embassy in Moscow, was tackled by guys from the FSB (the successor agency to the KGB), pinned to the ground and handcuffed.
RT @JeffreyYoungHC: If @toddzwillich keeps trolling Canadians, he's at serious risk of being politely asked to stop.
Outgoing IRS Chief: No Deliberate Targeting On The Basis Of Politics livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/outgoing… via @sahilkapur
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