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GOP lawmakers criticize Atty. Gen. Holder over leak probes
WASHINGTON — Republicans sharply criticized Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday for his handling of an investigation into a possible leak of classified information to a Fox News reporter, suggesting that Holder lied to Congress last month in...
Tags: Journalism, U.S. Congress, Eric Holder, The Huffington Post, Parties and Movements
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IRS suspends two in controversy over conference spending
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has suspended two employees for accepting free items during a conference in 2010, the first example of agency personnel facing disciplinary action connected to recent investigations of wasteful spending on...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Taxation, Labor Legislation, Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace
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With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting
WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a...
Tags: U.S. Congress, National Government, Internal Revenue Service, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Parties and Movements
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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: Terrorism, Eric Holder, Emergency Incidents, Criminals, Prosecution
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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans....
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Prosecution, Benghazi
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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: U.S. Congress, Mitch McConnell, Mark Begich, Internal Revenue Service, Parties and Movements
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Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Susan Rice, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Congress, Police Investigations
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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, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of State, Darrell E Issa
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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: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Elijah E. Cummings, Prosecution, Martin Dempsey, Benghazi
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Nobody died at Watergate, but it was a bigger scandal than Benghazi
Before Wednesday's hearing into last September’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said: “If you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it maybe by 10 or so, you’re going to...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Susan Rice, Islam, Christopher Stevens, Religion and Belief
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IRS puts head of problem office on leave
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has replaced the head of the office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions before a congressional committee. Lois...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Civil and Public Service, Internal Revenue Service, Parties and Movements, Justice System
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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, Internal Revenue Service, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Justice System, Parties and Movements
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