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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Jim Jordan, Mike Crapo, Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa, Taxation
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Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department's Benghazi probe
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House...Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, Benghazi, Christopher Stevens, Parties and Movements
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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: Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa, Taxation, Trey Gowdy, Internal Revenue Service
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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: Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa, Taxation, Religion and Belief, Values
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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: Sherrod Brown, John Cornyn, Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa, Taxation
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With Obama in the dark, administration planned how to stage-manage news of IRS scandal
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Weeks before the world and apparently President Barack Obama himself heard about the details of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, top people in his administration started planning how to stage-manage the release of the information....Tags: Mike Crapo, Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa, Taxation, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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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: Lindsey O. Graham, Parties and Movements, Taxation, U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service
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Wenstrup asks for input in IRS scandal
Portsmouth Daily Times, OhioWith the Internal Revenue Service scandal centered around Cincinnati, U.S. Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-OH2) is calling on residents of that district to come forward with any information they may have concerning reports the IRS targeted conservative...Tags: Justice System, Judges, U.S. Congress, Taxation, Elections
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ATF agents conducting sting let man leave store with gun
Milwaukee Journal SentinelATF agents let a man armed with a gun and threatening to shoot someone walk out of their storefront sting operation in Milwaukee last summer, failing to arrest him or take the weapon, the Journal Sentinel has learned. The suspect, Bobby Ball -- a...Tags: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Darrell E Issa, Defendants, Prosecution
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Ohio groups long ago sounded alarm on IRS
The BladeConservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission...Tags: Political Fundraising, Jim Jordan, Marcy Kaptur, Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Christopher Stevens, Parties and Movements, Susan Rice
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, Benghazi, Christopher Stevens, Hillary Clinton, Darrell E Issa
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