June 1, 2013 – 7:22 am
Don’t bet on it (The Blaze) White House spokesman Josh Earnest couldn’t provide a direct answer when asked by a reporter on Friday if President Barack Obama would “apologize†to conservative groups who were unfairly targeted by the IRS. Rather than saying the president is sorry or planned to apologize, Earnest said Obama was “troubled†[…]
May 31, 2013 – 8:08 am
As the House Ways and Means and Oversight committees get ready to question IRS employees at the Cincinnati office, we learn something interesting (Washington Examiner) President Obama may have promised “to hold the responsible parties accountable†for the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profit groups, but one of the agents at the center of […]
May 30, 2013 – 7:26 am
Rich Lowry provides an opinion piece over at The Politico on the real problem with Big Government, entitled The Lois Lerner State It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration— the IRS targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over […]
May 28, 2013 – 3:41 pm
That’s what the House wants to know (The Hill) The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on the Justice Department’s (DOJ) surveillance of reporters, an aide close to the matter told The Hill. The panel is looking at a statement Holder made during […]
May 27, 2013 – 3:22 pm
Politico’s Kelsey Snell should read a different article on Politico about Sharyl Attkinson, who has been one of the few reporters willing to engage in Journalism, rather than hero worship like most of the rest of the media, and investigate the IRS scandal. Anyhow In the two weeks since the news surfaced that the Internal […]
May 26, 2013 – 9:14 am
How big a net? This big (NY Times) Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other articles about terrorism. In a […]
May 25, 2013 – 8:50 am
Remind me, isn’t the Justice Department supposed to follow the Constitution and the Law? Apparently not when Eric Holder is in charge and they want to retaliate against a journalist (The New Yorker) The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that […]
May 24, 2013 – 10:45 am
It’s no wonder she pled the 5th (via Gator Doug) (National Review) A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity. Lerner, the director of the IRS […]
May 23, 2013 – 9:05 am
As Orin Kerr points out, there is a lot of back and forth and varying opinions as to this matter, but not from Darrell Issa (Politico) Lois Lerner might win the legal battle but she’s prolonging the political war. Instead of simply taking the scorn of lawmakers for a day, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment […]
May 22, 2013 – 11:03 am
As pointed out yesterday, this was expected (Fox News) The director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups refused to answer questions Wednesday at a House hearing on the program, as a Democratic lawmaker warned there would be “hell to pay” if the agency stonewalls Congress on its investigation. The IRS official, Lois […]
