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Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say
WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence 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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Police Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice, Los Angeles Times, Crime, Law and Justice
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Accountability in Obama administration
Attorney General Eric Holder has been held in contempt by the United States Congress. He is continuing to refuse to turn over documents and information of other scandalous matters. There is a federal law that states that anyone held in contempt of...Tags: Politics, Hillary Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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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: Washington, DC, Mitch McConnell, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Career and Workplace
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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, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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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: Washington, DC, Internal Revenue Service, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics, U.S. Department of Justice
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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: Washington, DC, Politics, Military Equipment, John Boehner, Jason Chaffetz
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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: Washington, DC, Mitch McConnell, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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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, Correspondents (music group), The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press
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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: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, John Boehner, Judges
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, Terrorism
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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: Washington, DC, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Obama ousts IRS chief over inquiry
WASHINGTON — President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem. Making a hastily scheduled statement...
Tags: Washington, DC, Mitch McConnell, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Marco Rubio
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