Wednesday's Daily Brief: Eurozone Recession Now Longest In Currency's History, Holder Facing Tough Questions

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

	POLITICS Holder Facing Tough Questions
	POLITICS GOP Leaders Allege Criminality In IRS Scandal
	CRIME Cleveland Women Held Captive Will Suffer Long-Term Damage: Sources
	POLITICS Obama Calls For Reporter Shield Law After Hampering Prior Efforts
	CELEBRITY Ashton & Demi Battle It Out Over Millions

BLOG POSTS

	Richard (RJ) Eskow: Holder Says Leak Required "Very Aggressive Action"... Bank Crimes, Not So Much Apparently leaks which keep the public informed require "very aggressive action" -- but crimes which shatter the economy, leaving millions without homes and millions more without jobs aren't worth lifting a finger to investigate.
	David Westin: Who's Got a Secret? The Associated Press is outraged that the Justice Department has been secretly rummaging through its telephone records, and who can blame it? But what really matters is what it means for all the rest of us.
	Barbra Streisand: What's Behind the Benghazi Hearings? Sometimes in the face of national tragedy, politics should take a backseat. The hypocrisy of turning Benghazi into a deliberate cover-up scandal is preposterous at a time when the nation faces so many serious problems.
	Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 2: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation Part 2: To understand just how the fossil fuel industry has been laundering climate disinformation, there are few better places to start than with the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute.
	Jamie Lee Curtis: Freedom of Choice, Freedom of Privacy Angelina Jolie's revelation today, done with eloquence and dignity and grace, is remarkable both in its message and its import to the world of women. Pro-action.