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Holder sidesteps lawmakers' questions on AP records seizure
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Lawmakers pounded U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday with questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records, and grew frustrated when he said he had limited answers....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Eric Holder, White House, F James Jr Sensenbrenner
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EDITORIAL: Overreaching federal investigation of leak to AP threatens press freedoms
The Sacramento BeeProtecting national security is one thing. Fishing expeditions that could intimidate and impede important watchdog reporting are another matter entirely. The Justice Department certainly appears to have gone too far in trying to ferret out who leaked...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Eric Holder, Lawyers, White House
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Legisladores EEUU piden respuestas a fiscal general sobre incautación telefónica a AP
ReutersWASHINGTON, 15 mayo (Reuters) - Legisladores estadounidenses hicieron el miércoles varias rondas de preguntas al fiscal general Eric Holder sobre la incautación secreta del Departamento de Justicia de registros telefónicos de la agencia Associated...Tags: Washington, DC, Central Intelligence Agency, The Associated Press, Barack Obama, FBI
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WRAPUP 1-Lawmakers accuse Obama administration of abusing free speech rights
Reuters(Adds comments from Lofgren, Holder) By David Ingram and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's...Tags: National Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Eric Holder, News Agency
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Asleep at the wheel
WASHINGTON — President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Fox News Channel (tv network), Richard Nixon, Taxation
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Deja vu all over again
Paul Greenberg"We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure." --Bob Woodward "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." --Attributed to Mark Twain . . . Check your calendar. Is this 2013 or 1973? Is the president of the United...Tags: Bob Woodward, Mark Twain, Richard Nixon, Taxation, White House
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Attorney general orders criminal review of IRS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began a criminal investigation Tuesday into overzealous scrutiny by the IRS of applications for tax exemptions by conservative groups, an improper targeting that an inspector general's report blamed on a...
Tags: Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Eric Holder, Taxation
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Eric Holder, White House, Arbitration
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Watergate's lessons seem to be forgotten
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon, Parties and Movements, Taxation, U.S. Supreme Court
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Obama says watchdog report's findings on IRS 'intolerable'
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday called the findings in a government report about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny intolerable and said he has directed his administration to hold...Tags: Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Elections, Taxation
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FBI opens criminal probe of tax agency, audit cites disarray
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny. Holder'...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Eric Holder, Richard Nixon, Mitch McConnell, Taxation
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Myanmar President Thein Sein to visit Obama at White House on May 20
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Myanmar President Thein Sein will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on May 20 as Obama continues to push the country to make reforms while it moves away from military rule, the White House said on...Tags: Washington, DC, Thein Sein, Burma, White House, Barack Obama
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