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DOCUMENTS: White House releases trove of Benghazi emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the...
Tags: Benghazi, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, FBI, John O. Brennan
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GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016. Strategists in...Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Libya
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Issa: No evidence so far of White House cover-up
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee chairman leading the fight to get Justice Department documents about a troubled gun-tracking operation says there's no evidence so far that White House officials were involved in misleading Congress or engaged...
Tags: Eric Holder, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Congress panel widens probe of IRS 'Tea Party' scrutiny
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional investigators probing the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative political groups will interview a key Washington IRS official on Friday and want to speak with as many as 20 more people, sources...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, FBI, Elijah E. Cummings, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party
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Cummings calls for end to IRS probe
Arguing that the congressional investigation into the IRS should be concluded, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings said Sunday that closed-door interviews with the agency's staff show neither the White House nor officials in Washington had a hand in targeting...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Elijah E. Cummings, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, CNN (tv network)
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More money down the government black hole
Among the training sessions offered to IRS employees at a conference a few years ago in sunny California was one titled, "Political Savvy: How Not to Shoot Yourself in the Foot." IRS management should have taken that course before planning that...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Matt Cartwright, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Allentown, Government
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IRS official apologizes for lavish $4M conference
WASHINGTON - An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a ''Star Trek'' parody shown at the 2010 gathering conceded to Congress on Thursday that taxpayer dollars...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Danny Werfel, Barack Obama, Politics
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IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews
WASHINGTON (AP) — A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Elijah E. Cummings, Tea Party Movement
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Out of control
The White House says President Barack Obama is concerned by excessive spending by the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies on conferences and travel. The president should be more than concerned. When the country continues to spend more money...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, Danny Werfel, White House
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GOP lawmakers criticize Atty. Gen. Holder over leak probes
WASHINGTON — Republicans sharply criticized Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday for his handling of an investigation into a possible leak of classified information to a Fox News reporter, suggesting that Holder lied to Congress last month in...
Tags: Eric Holder, Television Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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