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WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s an irony in the Internal Revenue Service’s crackdown on conservative groups. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign. [...]
Benghazi probe co-chair subpoenaed by House panel
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, to answer questions about the panel's findings behind closed doors. Tweet This Post
FBI Changes Focus of Menendez Probe
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2013
Washington Post: “Months after the FBI began probing allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), investigators are looking at whether someone set out to smear him while he was running for reelection last year and then ascending to his new post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to four people briefed on the [...]
Gov’t probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. Tweet This Post
Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. Tweet This Post
After Benghazi, IRS tea party probe: Govt seized AP phone records
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2013
Exactly ten days ago, President Barack Obama was piously telling reporters who cover him that free speech and an independent press are “essential pillars of our democracy.” On Monday, the Associated Press accused his administration of undermining that very pillar by secretly obtaining two months’ worth of telephone records of AP reporters and editors. “We [...]
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No Comments »New York Corruption Probe Widens
Posted by admin on May 8th, 2013
A sentencing document for New York State Senator Shirley Huntley (D) details her cooperation with federal authorities in the wake of her arrest in a bribery scheme and shows at least nine officials and staffers were caught in her wiretaps, Politicker reports. Tweet This Post
Va. gov: no special favors for company in probe
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2013
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday his administration never gave special treatment to a dietary supplement company that is under a federal securities investigation, despite more than $ 100,000 in political contributions from its chief executive and thousands of dollars more in gifts to McDonnell’s family. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News [...]
AG, FBI director to brief Obama on bombing probe
Posted by admin on April 19th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller are briefing President Barack Obama at the White House on developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation. Tweet This Post
