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Asleep at the wheel
WASHINGTON — President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a...Tags: Justice System, Jack Lew, Crime, Law and Justice, NPR, The Associated Press
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Attorney general orders criminal review of IRS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began a criminal investigation Tuesday into overzealous scrutiny by the IRS of applications for tax exemptions by conservative groups, an improper targeting that an inspector general's report blamed on a...
Tags: Justice System, Jack Lew, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: Justice System, Government, Prosecution, Freedom of the Press, Judges
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Obama says watchdog report's findings on IRS 'intolerable'
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday called the findings in a government report about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny intolerable and said he has directed his administration to hold...Tags: Justice System, Jack Lew, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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FBI opens criminal probe of tax agency, audit cites disarray
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny. Holder'...Tags: Justice System, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Political Fundraising, Vern Buchanan, FBI
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Myanmar President Thein Sein to visit Obama at White House on May 20
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Myanmar President Thein Sein will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on May 20 as Obama continues to push the country to make reforms while it moves away from military rule, the White House said on...Tags: Washington, DC, Burma, Politics, White House, Thein Sein
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Carney: White House counsel's office knew of review of IRS office 3 weeks ago, but not Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House spokesman Jay Carney says the IRS inspector general notified the White House counsel's office during the week of April 22 that it was completing a review of the IRS office in Cincinnati that targeted conservative...Tags: Washington, DC, David Cameron, Politics, Taxation, White House
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FBI to probe U.S. tax agency's actions on conservative groups
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny. Holder...Tags: Justice System, U.S. House of Representatives, Crime, Law and Justice, Mitch McConnell, Political Fundraising
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Holder defends subpoena of journalists' phone records
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday strongly defended the criminal investigation into the leak of classified details about a successful U.S. undercover operation, calling it "within the top two or three most serious leaks" of...
Tags: Justice System, Al-Qaeda, Prosecution, Freedom of the Press, John O. Brennan
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John Thompson: President, handlers do best to blur Benghazi issue
At last week's press conference, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney again misrepresented the central issue of President Obama's Sept. 12 Rose Garden remarks on Benghazi. Carney's statements mirrored debate moderator Candy Crowley's inappropriate...Tags: Benghazi, Government, Terrorism, Pompano Beach, Politics
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Obama calls controversy over Benghazi talking points a 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — President Obama tried to dismiss a brewing controversy over the White House handling of the terrorist attack on Benghazi as a “sideshow” and accused critics of using an attack that killed four Americans for political gain....Tags: Michael G. Mullen, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of State, Benghazi, Government
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In uproar over U.S. seizure of AP records, focus turns to Holder
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Patrick Leahy, Benghazi, Government, National Government
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