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Atty. Gen. Holder orders criminal investigation into IRS screening
WASHINGTON -- Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that he had ordered a criminal investigation into allegations that top IRS officials targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. “I have ordered an investigation to be begun,”...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Taxation, Jay Carney, Tea Party Movement
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Holder pledges to probe IRS handling of conservative groups
WASHINGTON – Testifying on Capitol Hill, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. promised a thorough criminal investigation of the targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS that will look at potential civil rights violations and false statements that...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Taxation, Tea Party Movement, Politics
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Counter-terrorism leak compromised an informant, sources say
WASHINGTON -- The unauthorized disclosure of a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, U.S. Department of Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama the latest in line of US presidents to face suggestions of political bias in IRS actions
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Tea Party Movement, Washington, DC, Elections, Parties and Movements
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Tax chief forced out in IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. With three...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Crime, Law and Justice, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Tea Party Movement, Washington, DC
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In the cross hairs
From the Philadelphia InquirerThe Obama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists' telephone...Tags: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Freedom of the Press
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RPT-ANALYSIS-As scandals mount, White House springs into damage control
Reuters(Repeats with no changes to text) * White House fights back on all three budding scandals * With effort to limit damage, Obama answers critics By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - With no sign of an end to three mushrooming scandals,...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate, Taxation, Susan Rice
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GOP demands more despite Benghazi email release
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information....Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Jason Chaffetz, Susan Rice
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Ouster of IRS official isn't ending investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner. Three congressional committees are investigating and the FBI...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, Taxation, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Already, some whistle-blowers have lost their nerve
Two weeks after the press partied hearty with President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the administration admitted that federal authorities had secretly combed through phone records for dozens of Associated Press...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), News Media
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Plugging leaks the right way
When it comes to prosecutors' investigations of leaks, you can count on journalists to dispense with impartiality and scream bloody murder. Upon learning that the Justice Department had seized the phone records of its reporters, The Associated Press...
Tags: John Boehner, U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, Justice System
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Atty. Gen. Holder defends seizure of AP's telephone records
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. strongly defended the far-reaching probe in the disclosure of security information by the Associated Press and said American lives were jeopardized when the wire service revealed details of a foiled plot to...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, FBI, Washington, DC
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