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White House: Obama is glad he wasn’t told about IRS scandal

Joel Gehrke

Updated: 39 min ago

President Obama did not hear of the IRS scandal until the agency apologized for targeting conservatives because his White House counsel and other senior staff agreed he should not be informed, his spokesman said today, adding that Obama thought they made the right decision in not telling him....

Pelosi: GOP focusing on Bengazi, AP and IRS because Obama ‘is a great president’

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., charged Republicans with “exploiting” the questions surrounding the Benghazi talking points, the AP phone records seizure and the IRS scandal to attack President Obama because “they fear” his agenda and eloquence. “This president — they...

Rep. Jason Chaffetz: White House released ‘smidgeon’ of Benghazi emails — subpoena may be necessary

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

Rep. Jason Chaffetz faulted President Obama’s team for releasing only “a small smidgeon” of 25,000 pages of documents about the Benghazi talking points, including one unclassified email that proves State Department leadership knew immediately that al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved...

Report: IRS denied tax-exempt status to pro-lifers on behalf of Planned Parenthood

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status to two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last...

Eric Holder: Results of FBI’s Benghazi investigation coming soon

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

Attorney General Eric Holder said that the results of the FBI investigation into who carried out the Benghazi terrorist attack will be released shortly. “We will be prepared shortly I think to reveal all that we have done,” Holder told the House Judiciary Committee. The investigation is...

Eric Holder: Not involved in AP phone records subpoena because I was interviewed as leak suspect

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that he doesn’t know why the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records in the manner that it did because he wasn’t involved in the preparation of the subpoena because he was interviewed as a possible source of the national security...

Why did Hillary Clinton tie Benghazi to video on 9/11/12 if she talked to whistleblower during attack?

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement that attributed the Benghazi attack to the now-infamous anti-Islam YouTube video in a statement on the day of the assault, even though she talked to a State Department official in Libya about the attack as it was unfolding. “Some...

State Department shuts down Benghazi questions: ‘You’ll have to take my word for it’

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

“You’ll have to take my word for it,” said a spokesperson for the most transparent administration in history when reporters asked her to substantiate her claim that the CIA removed references to terrorists from the Benghazi talking points before the State Department ever saw them. “If...

White House: Barack Obama is no Richard Nixon

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denied that President Obama’s administration bears any comparison to that of Richard Nixon, who resigned in the face of impeachment. “The people who make those kinds of comparisons need to check their history,” Carney told reporters when asked about...

Eric Holder defends AP phone records seizure

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Justice Department’s seizure of Associated Press phone records, though he disclaimed knowledge of certain details about the investigation because he recused himself from the probe. “The facts and the law have dictated our actions in that regard,”...