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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: New Products, U.S. Congress, Taxation, Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service
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Top IRS official pleads the 5th Amendment at testy House hearing
WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency’s mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Taxation, Parties and Movements, Trey Gowdy, Barack Obama
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Taxation, Sherrod Brown, Parties and Movements, John Cornyn
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Rep. Issa tested by the spotlight
WASHINGTON — During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Taxation, Henry A Waxman, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Parties and Movements
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Letters: Journalists have rights -- and responsibilities
Re "Journalists' records secretly collected," May 14 With any right there are associated responsibilities and restrictions. The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms — well, not if you are a convicted felon or criminally insane. The...Tags: Interior Policy, Freedom of the Press, Central Intelligence Agency, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama ousts IRS chief over inquiry
WASHINGTON — President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem. Making a hastily scheduled statement...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Mitch McConnell, Taxation, Parties and Movements, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: The Associated Press, News Media, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Police Investigations, Freedom of the Press
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House committee hearing on Benghazi attack opens on partisan note
WASHINGTON -- A hearing on the deadly September 2012 attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, began with sharp exchanges Wednesday morning when the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform accused the Republican...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael G. Mullen, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of State, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Partisan politics, little new information at House Benghazi hearing
WASHINGTON — Partisan politics loomed over a House hearing Wednesday on the deadly September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over the meaning of testimony from three witnesses...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Military, Barack Obama, Prosecution, Martin Dempsey
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Orphan Black' on BBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black A trip to the suburbs...
Tags: Mike J. Rogers, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Peter T. King, BBC, Baltimore Ravens
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McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...
Tags: Government, ABC (tv network), Central Intelligence Agency, Jack Reed, Lindsey O. Graham
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IRS targeted conservative groups, official says
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for nonprofit status, a top agency official said Friday, setting off calls for investigations into an organization...
Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Mitch McConnell, Taxation, Parties and Movements
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