President Barack Obama, addressing a live television audience from the White House, said the commissioner in charge of the IRS has been removed following the agency’s targeted scrutiny of conservative groups. “The misconduct uncovered is inexcuseable,” Obama said in a...
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A vehicle and the surround buildings burn after they were set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012.
Charge of the Obama Brigade: IRS, Benghazi, Reporters
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White House press secretary Jay Carney, rear, is seen on a television monitor during his daily news briefing at the White House.
Carney: ‘Scandals Metastasize’ — in the Industrial-Scandal Complex
In Washington, it’s often more the cover-up than the scandal that undoes a president. “And when it’s over, we’ll be hard-pressed to remember how it began.” So wrote Jay Carney, then a correspondent for Time magazine, in 2007, in the...
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, D.C.
Holder: Justice Investigating IRS
Written with Richard Rubin and Phil Mattingly Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department has opened an investigation of the IRS’s examination of conservative political organizations to see if any crimes were committed. Yet he said he...
Read more »Holder: Critics of Federal Court Terrorist Prosecution ‘Simply Wrong’
Attorney General Eric Holder, maintaining that people accused of terrorism against the United States can be tried in federal courts, says those who say the courts can’t handle such high-profile cases “are not just registering a dissenting opinion — they...
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Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, DC.
Holder Willing to Hold Pay, if Needed
Attorney General Eric Holder looks like he’s ready to follow President Barack Obama’s lead on sequestration. Holder, in an interview today on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, said the president did the right thing when he announced yesterday that he...
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A drone protest outside the White House in this file photo.
Holder to Paul: ‘The Answer… is No’
Sen. Rand Paul, the Republican from Kentucky who held the Senate floor past midnight with a filibuster against the confirmation of John Brennan for CIA director, may have gone on for 13 hours with questions about the limits of American...
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Law enforcement capture marijuana being smuggled into the United States from Mexico in Tucson, Arizona, in this file photo.
White House Budget-Cutting Lesson: Try Cutting 8.2 Percent from Zero
This is the art, in Washington, of cutting an agency that doesn’t exist: In all the warnings of the consequences of looming budget cuts, the White House budget office has noted one program targeted for cuts — an office that...
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Oprah Winfrey speaks with Lance Armstrong during an interview regarding the controversy surrounding his cycling career on Jan. 14, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
Armstrong’s Confessions Stir No Interest from Federal Prosecutor
After weeks of public lashings and millions in lost sponsorship deals, Lance Armstrong finally received a shred of good news today. While Armstrong’s primetime television doping confession may have changed how people feel about the cancer-surviving former cycling champion, one...
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The AT&T Mobility booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
AT&T Dials Up More Than $3 Million for Obama Inauguration
AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, gave $3.1 million to President Barack Obama’s inaugural committee at a time when the federal government is deciding how to auction airwaves coveted by the Dallas-based wireless provider. The president’s inaugural committee, in a...
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A Tea Party supporter from Brunswick, Georgia, stands outside the Supreme Court.
Who Really Gave $12 Million to FreedomWorks Super-PAC?
Two groups advocating for stronger campaign finance laws, the Campaign Finance Institute and Democracy 21, have asked the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission to look at two companies that contributed $12 million to the Tea Party-aligned FreedomWorks’ super-political action...
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