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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- When the storm of administration scandal first hit President Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Political Corruption, Freedom of the Press, John Boehner
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Are the Obama administration's scandals overblown?
The Obama White House has been trying to defuse three scandals: the altered talking points for the Benghazi attack, the IRS targeting of conservative groups for audits and the Department of Justice seizure of reporters’ phone records. The president&...
Tags: White House
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It's 1973 all over again
Victor Davis HansonIn Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Obama promised to transcend the old politics and bring a new era of hope-and-change transparency to Washington. Five years later, those vows are in...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Internal Revenue Service, Ben Sherwood, Taxation, Organizing for Action
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EDITORIAL: Is 'Obamian' now a word?
The Augusta Chronicle, Ga.Comparisons have been made recently between the lying, paranoia, arrogance and vindictiveness of the Nixon and Obama presidencies. But there may be no comparison. Nixon may have just been outdone. Certainly Nixon unashamedly rolled over people and the...Tags: Carl Bernstein, Freedom of the Press, Politics, U.S. Congress, White House
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EDITORIAL: Justice Dept. shows all Americans are the AP
Albuquerque JournalThere are some very basic reasons Americans who don't work in the news media should be very concerned about the Justice Department secretly seizing telephone records of The Associated Press. Free thought. Free speech. A system that keeps government...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Internal Revenue Service, Freedom of the Press, National Security, The Associated Press
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Benghazi questions asked and answered
In response to The Sun editorial claiming that "Benghazi deserves a real review," (May 10), all I can say is, no, it does not! What we need to do is stop the political charade concerning this issue. The Accountability Review Board asked and answered all...
Tags: John Boehner, U.S. Army
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Voice of the People, May. 17
High scandals This is in response to "Obama and overreach; Americans see evidence of truth-shading, arrogance and intrusion" (Editorial, May 15). There is no doubt that the Obama administration is suffering through an embarrassing scandal at the IRS....Tags: Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, George W. Bush, Freedom of the Press
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EDITORIAL: The Benhazi scandal: Obama's buck
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewAmid rightful public anger over the planned terrorist attack on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, one key player in the ongoing obfuscation has been all but excused from accountability for what he said -- not to select media outlets but to a forum of...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Susan Rice, United Nations General Assembly, Barack Obama, Christopher Stevens
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OPINION: Worldview: Real scandal of Benghazi
The Philadelphia InquirerYes, Virginia, there is a Benghazi scandal. The scandal is that Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and some Republican colleagues are dishonoring the memory of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their...Tags: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, ABC (tv network), U.S. Department of State
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GOP demands more despite Benghazi email release
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information....Tags: Jason Chaffetz, John Boehner, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Parties and Movements
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Margaret Carlson: Republicans smell blood, but may take it too far
Republicans in Congress are so hungry for scalps, they just can't leave well enough alone. The scandal engulfing the Internal Revenue Service is a story that's playing to their benefit. Monday, after having the weekend to think about it, Sen. Marco Rubio,...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton
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COLUMN: Watergate's lesson forgotten
Washington Post Writers Group"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory...Tags: IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Woodrow Wilson
May 17, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
May 17, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
May 16, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
May 16, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
May 16, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
May 16, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 17, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
May 16, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
May 16, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
May 17, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 15, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
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