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  • Obama takes different tacks in defusing IRS, AP controversies

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    President Obama on Thursday ratcheted up efforts to put behind him a trio of scandals bogging down his administration, appointing a new head for the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service while not apologizing for his Justice Department's secret monitoring of reporters' phones. Obama condemned...

  • Obama appoints new IRS chief

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    President Obama on Thursday appointed Daniel Werfel, a senior Office of Management and Budget official, as the next acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. The announcement comes a day after Obama forced out Steven Miller, the former leader of an agency under fire for targeting...

  • Obama ousts acting IRS head after agency is caught targeting conservatives

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    President Obama on Wednesday forced out the acting director of the Internal Revenue Service and pledged to work with Congress as it investigates why the tax agency was inappropriately targeting conservative groups that opposed Obama and other Democrats. IRS Acting Director Steven Miller was...

  • President Obama's allies do more damage in days than GOP did in four years

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    In a matter of days, the Obama administration has done something that the president's political opponents have failed to do over four and a half years: inflicted serious damage to President Obama's public standing. Obama has throughout his presidency aggressively combated GOP criticism -- on...

  • Obama calls IRS actions ‘intolerable and inexcusable’

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    President Obama late Tuesday called the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS “intolerable and inexcusable,” saying those who unfairly scrutinized the tax-exempt status of Republican-leaning organizations would be held “accountable.” The remarks represented the president’s...

  • White House tries to insulate President Obama from growing controversies

    Brian Hughes

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    White House aides on Tuesday tried to distance President Obama from the growing controversies over the IRS' targeting of conservative groups and the Justice Department's monitoring of journalists' phones by pleading total ignorance of events already starting to overshadow virtually every other...

  • Jay Carney walks back denial of White House involvement in IRS scandal

    Brian Hughes

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney began his daily briefing Tuesday with a firm denial that any White House officials had knowledge of or participated in the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service. “No,” he said when asked if anyone at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave....

  • President Obama faces third crisis with Justice Department monitoring of journalists

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    The Justice Department admitted Monday that it secretly seized phone records from the Associated Press in its attempt to track down a damaging press leak, further rattling a White House already on the defensive over its handling of the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attacks and new revelations that...

  • White House: Too early to talk about firing IRS employees

    Brian Hughes

    Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Monday said it was too early to entertain the idea of firing Internal Revenue Service employees, even though agency officials have acknowledged the government targeted conservative groups. “You’re getting ahead of it,” Carney, aboard Air Force...


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