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Treasury Secretary Lew to meet with Obama, others about IRS
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday to talk about the next steps in holding the Internal Revenue Service accountable for targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny, White...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, Jack Lew, Washington, DC
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U.S. lawmakers press for changes at scandal-plagued tax agency
ReutersBy Kim Dixon and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - As Republican lawmakers stepped up their calls for top Internal Revenue Service officials to resign, President Barack Obama planned to meet with Treasury officials on Wednesday to discuss...Tags: Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Carney (music group), News Media
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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: Politics, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Barack Obama, News Media, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI, The Associated Press, Washington, DC
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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: News Agency, Politics, Barack Obama, Carney (music group), F James Jr Sensenbrenner
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, Carney (music group), U.S. Congress, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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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: Politics, Mark Twain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Benghazi
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Labor Legislation, U.S. Congress
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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: Politics, Carney (music group), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Congress, Freedom of the Press
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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: Government, Woodrow Wilson, Politics, Barack Obama, Philosophy
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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: Elections, Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means
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