The IRS Attack on Political Speech
by Bradley Smith The Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting of tea party and conservative groups refuses to die, as one by one the administration’s explanations prove untrue. We were told…
Obama’s Strikingly Nixonian Scandals
Denial, evasion, “Let me be perfectly clear” — is this 2013 or 1973? by Victor Davis Hanson The truth about Benghazi, the Associated Press/James Rosen monitoring, the IRS corruption, the NSA octopus,…
Another Federal Agency Goes IRS
One big question raised by IRS political targeting is whether Obama officials or their bureaucratic allies unleashed the power of the administrative state for partisan ends. Now evidence is emerging…
A Slo-Mo IRS Cover-Up
When Obama condemns “phony scandals,” we can assume investigators are getting warm. by John Fund Back on May 13, President Obama reacted heatedly to news that the IRS had delayed…
Evidence Suggests Collusion Between IRS and FEC to Target Conservative Groups
by Eliana Johnson Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record…
Media Can’t Ignore New Developments in IRS Scandal
IRS-Gate: From stonewalling Congress to Federal Election Commission collusion to harassment of already-tax-exempt conservative groups, the IRS scandal metastasizes. Someone high-up was clearly giving orders. ‘Phony scandals,” to use President…
Nothing phony about the IRS scandal
One thing is clear about the current state of play on the IRS scandal — President Obama and his top appointees have now moved to a new phase of their…
The Administration’s Stonewalling on the IRS Scandal
The agency crisis could permanently harm Americans’ faith in government. by Peggy Noonan In all the day-to-day of the IRS scandals I don’t think it’s been fully noticed that the…
There’s nothing “phony” about these scandals
by Michael Graham “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.” — President Obama, Wednesday Question: How many Americans have…
Scandals that once angered and concerned the President are now phony?
This week, President Barack Obama changed his tune on the numerous scandals besetting his administration. Speaking in Illinois, Obama said, “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony…
IRS official testifies that Obama political appointee’s office involved in targeting conservatives
A veteran IRS worker testified on Thursday that officials from a Washington office led by a political appointee intervened in the screening of Tea Party applications, saying publicly for the…
The IRS scandal started in Washington
We’re starting to understand why Lois Lerner took the Fifth about her role in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. The testimony of at least three more employees in the…
Cover the IRS, Don’t Cover for it
Apologists in the media and elsewhere falsely claim the scandal was just a bungle. by Peggy Noonan “Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet,” read the New York Times headline. “Dem:…
IRS targeting of conservatives was directed from D.C.
A D.C.-based supervisor in the IRS’s tax-exempt status division has indicated during interviews with congressional investigators that the targeting was deliberate and not run by rogue agents in Cincinnati. Holly…
Why the IRS IG Stopped with an Audit
by Gerald Walpin Among all the unanswered questions about the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative organizations, one is most crucial: Who ordered this extreme scrutiny? Amazingly, IRS inspector general J. Russell…