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Court: CIA doesn’t have to release photos of dead bin Laden
Joel Gehrke
Updated: 34 min ago
CIA officials do not have to release images of Osama bin Laden taken after his death at the hands of Navy Seals, a federal court ruled today, citing the likelihood that the images would provoke a terrorist attack. “As one of the judges on this panel suggested that the Benghazi attack was...
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White House to reporters: You didn’t ask!
Joel Gehrke
Updated: 3 hr ago
President Obama’s spokesman, to the irritation of the White House press corps, accounted for the shifting narrative about the White House team’s knowledge of the IRS scandal by pointing the finger back at the media for failing ask the right questions to get more information.
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White House mocks birthers to avoid questions about scandals
Joel Gehrke
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reminded reporters of the conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birth certificate in an attempt to dodge questions about the current scandals dominating the Washington news cycle.
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White House: Obama is glad he wasn’t told about IRS scandal
Joel Gehrke
Yesterday
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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...