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...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

Comedian David Letterman shared a joke at President Obama’s expense Tuesday night: The president held a press conference Monday, and the reporters were on him like a pack of wild dogs. He did pretty well because, you know, he had been listening to the conversations. So, he knew exactly what...

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...

Susan Ferrechio

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Wednesday said the Internal Revenue Service broke the law when it decided to target conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status. “Now, my question isn’t about who’s going to resign,” Boehner told reporters after...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

"Next time on 'Arrested Economic Development,' Joe has a squirt gun fight, and then takes a nap." - A line mocking Vice President Biden in a video released Wednesday by the House Republican conference. Narrated in the style of the popular sitcom "Arrested Development" (which returns for a...

Sean Higgins

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

What kicked off the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups? The Treasury Department’s Inspector General apparently knows but the rest of us cannot. His report on the scandal includes three timelines of events, but in each case, the first item in the timeline has been...

Michael Barone

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

It’s not entirely a coincidence that the left-wing Media Matters has been parroting and advancing Obama administration talking points. It turns out that the Justice Department’s lead spokesman has been in frequent email contact with Media Matters personnel. The Daily Caller has the story.

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

As all 45 GOP senators today united in a letter to President Obama demanding cooperation with congressional investigations into the IRS scandal, outspoken conservative Sen. Mike Lee said that the combined IRS and Benghazi affairs and the seizure of Associated Press source files prove the...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

The Treasury Inspector General's damaging report on the IRS-Tea Party scandal has destroyed the administration's claim that low-level workers in a Cincinnati, Ohio office are to blame, revealing that 10 of 12 agency offices referenced in the affair are in Washington. The report repeatedly...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

In response to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s frequent use of the word “unfettered” during the press briefing Tuesday, the producers of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” put together this highlight video. “Welcome to this special edition of ‘Sesame Street,’” deadpanned...