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EDITORIAL: Strengthening shield laws
The Frederick News-Post, Md.The Justice Department's misguided seizure of phone records from reporters and editors of the Associated Press might have one silver lining -- it could revive the push for a federal shield law for the media. In the wake of the AP scandal, the Obama...Tags: Government, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Senate, National Government, U.S. Department of Justice
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Justice, Benghazi, Susan Rice, White House
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EDITORIAL: Probe shows need for media shield
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserIf the three controversies that beset the Obama administration last week, the most serious accusation came from the story with the least political sizzle. The fallout from the Benghazi terrorist attack derived its potency from the four deaths that...Tags: U.S. Congress, Al-Qaeda, Marketing, News Media, U.S. Department of Justice
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There Are Plenty of Scandals, Just Not These Ones
There’s a familiar template for the “scandals” that have so far “plagued” the Obama administration, in that they are all, for the most part, total bullshit and/or unfortunate events in the vast federal bureaucracy that have...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Department of Justice, Benghazi
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Entertainment, Rand Paul, Benghazi
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Past time for heads to roll in Washington
AUSTIN, Texas - The twin revelations of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying on the Associated Press -- all in a few days -- mean this: It is time to air the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Senate, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Department of Justice
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White House is lying or clueless
The scandals at the White House in the last few days and the lack of knowing what was going on does not wash ("IRS head forced to go," May 16). The IRS in Ohio targets conservative groups, but the interim head of the IRS located in Washington gets...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Operation Fast and Furious, Politics
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EDITORIAL: Upgrade protections of digital records
Seattle TimesTHE last time the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was significantly revised, brick-sized cellphones cost $3,000, email was mostly limited to academics and the military. The World Wide Web was still just a gleam in the eye of Tim Berners-Lee....Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Department of Justice
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Bill O'Reilly: Remember when Obama believed in transparency?
It hasn't been a great week for the Obama folks, as the scandal du jour tour has firmly taken hold. Every day it seems another federal agency is exposed as having intimidated, snooped, covered up or gone to Vegas on the taxpayer dime. Zimbabwe is even...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Susan Rice, Christopher Stevens, Islam, Barack Obama
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Bill would prevent lobbying about gun control, pro or con
The Wichita EagleKansas state government could be barred from lobbying against gun control in Washington by a gag rule designed to prevent local governments from lobbying in favor of gun control at the Statehouse. The state Senate on Friday gave its final approval to...Tags: Government, Personal Weapon Control, Lobbying, Regional Authority, Elections
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Daily Press joins criticism of subpoenas for AP telephone records
NEWPORT NEWS — The Daily Press Media Group has joined a chorus of news organizations nationwide criticizing the Justice Department for a massive seizure of The Associated Press' telephone records. In a letter Friday to Hampton Roads' federal...Tags: Government, West Point, Personal Data Collection, U.S. Department of Justice, National Government
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Obama administration assaults press freedom
In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris. Government leaders, elected or appointed, usually don't intend to do the wrong thing, to overstep or cause harm, but they become so convinced, so certain of their purpose,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Al-Qaeda, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), News Media, News Agency
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May 14, 2013
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