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  • After Obama's roughest week, White House points finger at GOP

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    White House officials on Sunday dismissed Republican attacks over three simmering scandals as a partisan witch hunt, hoping to put behind them President Obama's single worst week in office and to move Washington's attention back to his second-term agenda. While Obama was delivering a...

  • Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: “Everything comes from the top.”

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents. The Post story...

  • How many nonprofit auditors does the IRS have?

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    In its Saturday edition the Washington Post featured two separate front-page stories about the controversy engulfing the Internal Revenue Service for its targeting of Tea Party groups seeking nonprofit status. Both stories featured completely different figures for the number of auditors the IRS...

  • Conn Carroll: The Obama scandals' case for limited government

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    "It's an interesting case study, right," former President Obama adviser David Axelrod told the crew of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, "because if you look at the inspector general's report, apparently some folks down in the bureaucracy, ya know -- we have a large government -- took it upon...

  • Michael Barone: Obama's IRS and AP scandals cast Big Chill on free speech

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand...

  • Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that these are scandals

    Charlie Spiering

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has come under heavy fire this week as journalists grilled him about the three scandals hitting President Obama’s administration at once. On CNN Thursday night, however, Carney explained to Piers Morgan that he has actually enjoyed his job this week....

  • 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...

  • GOP slams IRS pick to run Obamacare enforcement office

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    House and Senate Republican leaders are gagging on the administration's pick to run the IRS Obamacare enforcement office because she headed the unit that improperly probed into Tea Party groups, a scandal that has cut short the careers of two top officials--so far. "Stunning, just stunning,"...

  • Byron York: What is the real number of illegal border crossings?

    Byron York

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Security along the U.S. border with Mexico is perhaps the key factor in the debate over comprehensive immigration reform. Those who believe the border is mostly secure already are more inclined to support the plan of the bipartisan Gang of Eight in the Senate -- legalization first, followed by...

  • Tea Party leaders vent anger at IRS for targeting them

    Susan Ferrechio

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Tea Party leaders from around the country gathered in Washington Thursday to vent outrage at the Internal Revenue Service for targeting them and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status and threatened to sue the agency for damages. "They lost membership and donations, they...