KMOV’s Larry Conners says “the IRS has been pressuring me” since his April, 2012 interview with the president. “Can I prove it? At this time, no.” Update: Corporate says Conners allegations are “”
Watch hordes of TV journalists compare the AP & IRS scandals to Watergate.
Group tied to white nationalism enters immigration fray. Not what reform opponents needed after Heritage flap.
Russia has arrested an official at the American Embassy in Moscow on suspicion of working for the CIA.
“We are not involved in decisions made in connection with criminal investigations,” Carney said.
“It’s appalling, it’s the most disgusting use of authority we’ve seen in a while,” said Rep. Trey Radel.
News that the DOJ secretly obtained AP phone records has left coming around to the idea of a scandal-filled second term. “Ugh,” says one activist.
In wake of IRS targeting of conservative activists, “I don’t think Republicans have any fresh incentive to revisit” campaign finance reform, a Senate Democratic leadership aide acknowledged.
A new critique emerges. Fear of a narrow new government power at a scary moment.
So, about those AP phone records…
“The First Amendment is first for a reason. If the Obama Administration is going after reporters’ phone records, they better have a damned good explanation,” Boehner spokesman says.
The vote was 37-30. Gov. Mark Dayton will sign the bill, which will go into effect Aug. 1, making Minnesota the 12th state, plus DC, with marriage equality.
The seizure is believed to be part of a leaks investigation related to a May 2012 Associated Press story about a foiled terror plot.
The federal government, working for you! And your one breast implant.
Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman claimed the IRS was not targeting the tea party for extra scrutiny in March 2012.
“We’re being told one thing when another thing is actually happening.”
Reuters thinks so, and says in its caption that this wire photo shows a “tear.”
A lame joke about cricket is met with a lame joke about baseball. The proverbial tumbleweed bounces through a joint press conference with Obama and Cameron.
On Monday, a frustrated Obama weighs in on IRS and Benghazi.
“I have got no patience with it, I will not tolerate it, and we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this,” says the president.
Newt Gingrich doesn’t know what a smartphone is and he made a video to talk about it. Below is an moment by moment breakdown.
Some former Clinton aides and fundraisers deride Ready for Hillary as an amateurish group of posers, but the PAC is gaining steam. “What, who are these people? These people are untested.”
The Newseum hard at first argued that other groups consider two slain cameramen journalists. “A dark day,” says the ADL. [Updated]
The progressive former Congressman hit the Obama Administration for their Libyan policy and for their response to the attack.
Z Street charged in 2010 that the Obama Administration was persecuting it for its policy views. Does Israel activism “contradict the Administration’s public policies?” an IRS agent allegedly asked.
No sense of humor.
The situation for LGBT people in the southern African country has rapidly deteriorated in the past month. “At this point, we need all the help that we can get from the international community,” an activist says.
A carefully constructed news day at the White House careens off course. Fleischer says Carney brought the pain on himself for “throwing gasoline on a fire.”
The White House press secretary said Susan Rice discussed the possibility that al-Qaeda might be involved in the Sept. 11 attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi. But outside of a brief mention on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rice mostly did not discuss the involvement of al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda affiliates.
