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Local lawyer named to corruption fighting Chicago prosecutor job
ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has nominated Chicago attorney Zachary Fardon to be the U.S. prosecutor in Chicago, which has seen the indictments of many top local politicians and mob figures, the two U.S. senators from Illinois announced on...Tags: Patrick Fitzgerald, Laws, Barack Obama, Elections, Mark Kirk
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Editorial: IRS stonewalling makes the case for a special prosecutor
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, White House, Stephen F. Lynch, Taxation, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Taxation, International Monetary Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Government
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Taxation, International Monetary Fund, Internal Revenue Service
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: National Security Agency, The Associated Press, Espionage and Intelligence, World War I (1914-1918), Media Industry
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Obama's 'Katrina moment'
It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...
Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Katrina (2005), George W. Bush, John Kerry, Taxation
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Obama should exonerate the CIA agent who blew the whistle on torture
Though he did not participate in torture, ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou was the first person to publicly acknowledge the Bush administration's inhumane abuse of detainees ("The truth about torture," April 23). Mr. Kiriakou's disclosures informed the public...Tags: Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Abusive Behavior
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Chan Lowe: The Bush Presidential Library
Barbara Bush, the family matriarch, probably echoed the national sentiment most succinctly in an interview when she said, “We’ve had enough Bushes.” Her son, at the opening of his presidential library, said that history would be...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
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Are we ready for another Bush?
Members of the Bush Family Dynasty who now aspire to political office have apparently concluded it is "safe" to surface, less than five years after the debacle of George W.'s presidency. George P., eldest son of Jeb, is running for Texas land...Tags: White House, Jeb Bush, Belief and Faith, Abortion Issue, Elections
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World According to Dick Cheney dates, times, preview
Channel Guide MagazineWhen is The World According To Dick Cheney on? Below details the Showtime air dates and times, as well as gives a preview of the highly anticipated documentary. Supporters and critics will find much to debate and insights to be learned in Showtime’s... -
My Story of the Fantastically Unimpressive Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward has been in the news lately for a silly flare-up over his self-aggrandizing misrepresentation of an innocuous email sent by Gene Sperling regarding the sequester. I won’t re-litigate the whole mess here (and if you want a solid recap,...
Tags: White House, Republican Party, The Washington Post, George W. Bush, Bob Woodward
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Governor McDonnell restores Scooter Libby's voting rights
Former vice presidential adviser Scooter Libby is among more than 1,000 felons whose voting rights were restored in the past year by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Libby is listed in an annual report on pardons and other forms of clemency the governor is...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Branch
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