Charlie Spiering

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

On FOX News last night, former Vice President Dick Cheney explained to Sean Hannity that he was concerned about the reports of the IRS targeting conservative and tea party groups. “I think it’s very dangerous,” Cheney said, theorizing that the sensitivity of the IRS activity would...

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...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Irate lawmakers vowed Monday to hold congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service after the tax agency admitted that it closely scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups that opposed President Obama and other Democrats. The Republican-run House Ways and Means Committee...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

President Obama had “no knowledge” that the Justice Department obtained two months of Associated Press reporters’ phone records, his spokesman said today. “Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP,” White...

Byron York

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

The Internal Revenue Service scandal would be bad enough if the IRS just handled issues like collecting income taxes and granting nonprofit status. But the immensely powerful federal agency is about to become even more powerful with the arrival of national health care, and that makes the...

Philip Klein

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

On Monday afternoon, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had “secretly obtained two months of telephone records” from 20 phone lines assigned to reporters and editors from the global news organization. The shocking revelation comes on top of news that the IRS...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

On “Meet the Press” Sunday, New York Times columnist David Brooks explained that the recent news about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups would be a major story in upcoming days, pointing out that the Obama administration was facing another political scandal. “[T]his IRS story is going...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013

Pat Smith, the mother of one of the victims of the Benghazi consulate attacks, went on the Huckabee show yesterday to deliver a message to Hillary Clinton. "I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother's Day," she said. "She has her child. I don't have mine because of her." Huckabee...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Facts emerging about Benghazi may not tell us anything new, but they remind us of two important truths: First, the upper levels of the Obama administration are peppered with partisans who play fast and loose with the truth for political gain. Second, regime change and military interventions,...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

The Senate will spend this week reshaping an immigration-reform bill in hopes of building bipartisan support for the measure. But that detailed scrutiny of the measure is scaring off the very lawmakers that its authors hoped to win over. By the time the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the...