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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Chief Keef arrested near
Atlanta after hotel
security smells marijuana
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Chicago Tribune, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 2:34:05 PM
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South Side rapper Chief Keef was arrested at a hotel near Atlanta this week for disorderly conduct after hotel security smelled marijuana smoke coming his room, police said. The disorderly conduct arrest comes two months after he was released from custody in Chicago for a probation violation. Chief Keef, 17, was arrested Monday afternoon at the LeMeridan Hotel located at 111 Perimeter Center West in Dunwoody north of Atlanta,(Snip) The hotel security alerted police shortly before 3 p.m. about illegal drug activity at the hotel.
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Does the GOP understand
IRS scandal opportunity?
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USA Today, by Mark Joseph
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 2:24:54 PM
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President Obama and his allies in the House and Senate may have failed in their attempt to channel shock and anger over Newtown into passing strict new gun control legislation, but it wasn´t for lack of trying. The quick pivot from tragedy to legislation is just another indication that one party has a knack for legislating while the other spends most of its time saying no, or offering watered down versions of its opponents´ legislation. That seeming inability to quickly connect moments of national outrage with meaningful legislation on the part of Republicans will be on display
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Lew learned of potential for
´troubling findings´ at IRS
in mid-March
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Peter Schroeder
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 2:12:13 PM
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was told about a government watchdog´s investigation of the Internal Revenue Service in mid-March but did not learn the full extent of its findings until they were released earlier this month. Lew told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that he first learned about the possible problems during a "getting to know you" meeting with the Treasury´s inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, on March 15. At that meeting, George ran down a number of items for Lew, including the potential for "troubling findings" in regards to the agency´s handling of tax-exempt applications
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How much news has the
Obama administration
successfully suppressed?
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Philip Klein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 2:05:55 PM
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On the heels of news that the Obama administration Department of Justice was spying on reporters at the Associated Press, Monday brought the startling disclosure by the Washington Post that the DOJ had also targeted Fox reporter James Rosen for surveillance in an effort to plug up leaks. Additionally, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza obtained the full application for a search warrant of Rosen’s personal email account, in which the DOJ accused him of being “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator.” As Lizza put it, “Rosen was not charged with any crime, but it is unprecedented for the government,
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Former IRS chief: Can´t say
how targeting happened
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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher & Alan Fram
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 1:58:55 PM
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WASHINGTON— The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner. Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when his five-year term expired, told the Senate Finance Committee he didn´t learn all the facts until he read last week´s report by a Treasury inspector general confirming the targeting strategy. In his first public remarks since the story broke, Shulman said: "I agree this is
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After IRS, Benghazi scandals,
public trust shifts to GOP
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 1:41:49 PM
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The Democratic Party´s edge over the GOP on who the public trusts more on ethics and corruption issues has flipped in the wake of the IRS and Benghazi scandals, according to Rasmussen Reports. Not only do voters trust Republicans more now, they have their highest level of confidence in the GOP and the lowest level in Democrats in seven months. While the Democrats had an eight-point "trust advantage" over Republicans a month ago, Rasmussen´s latest poll said that edge has disappeared and now the GOP has a two-point advantage. "With growing questions about Benghazi and actions
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About “Bush Appointee” Doug Shulman …
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Red State, by Dana Loesch
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/21/2013 1:39:04 PM
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The left loves to remind everyone that the former IRS commissioner was a Bush appointee, because somehow this makes it OK that his IRS office abused power to criminally target conservatives. For a party that loves to blame Bush, they sure love signing off on everything Bush did and then maximizing it times eleventy. Shulman may have been a Bush appointee, but he was an Obama donor: Shulman donated $500 to the Democratic National Committee in 2004. So let’s start calling him “Democrat supporter” Doug Shulman. All this shows is that Bush wasn’t an ideological bigot.
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Lew: ´I Will Not Cross That
Line Into the Administration
of the Tax System´
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Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 1:35:26 PM
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday the IRS has to be "beyond politics," and he warned that the "cure could be worse than the disease" if that line is crossed in the attempt to fix the agency´s problems. "The thing I will not do -- I will not cross that line into the administration of the tax system, because the cure could be worse than the disease. We need to make sure there´s no political involvement in the administration of the tax system," Lew said. And while the treasury secretary is responsible for
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LA elections may be decided by
older, white voters, poll shows
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Los Angeles Times, by Michael Finnegan, *
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Posted By: The Advocate- 5/21/2013 1:34:58 PM
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Tuesday´s elections will sweep in new leadership for Los Angeles´ 3.8 million residents, but the races are likely to be decided by an older, whiter and more educated fraction of the city´s population. Latinos, the city´s dominant ethnic group and a key voting bloc, make up 44% of the city´s population, U.S. Census figures show. But a USC Price/Los Angeles Times poll of likely voters last week suggests Latinos will make up 24% of those who cast ballots Tuesday, in part because many are immigrants who are ineligible to vote.
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IRS targeted conservative
college interns
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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Patrick Howley
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 1:24:57 PM
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanded information about conservative groups’ college-aged interns, prompting outrage from one of the country’s top conservative activist organizations and leading one former intern to wonder whether his family’s pizza parlor would be endangered. The IRS requested, in an audit, the names of the conservative Leadership Institute’s 2008 interns, as well as specific information about their internship work and where the interns were employed in 2012, according to a document request the IRS sent to the Leadership Institute, dated February 14, 2012. The IRS requested: “Copies of applications for internships and summer programs; to include:
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Benghazi Exclusive: State Department
Denies Libya Weapons
Buyback program Exists
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Canada Free Press, by Marinka Peschmann
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 1:10:28 PM
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Danger. Danger. Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing also known as “rebels” bent on overthrowing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (mirroring the Saudi, the Obama administration and Republican Senator John McCain’s position), have taken over the oilfields that once belonged to Assad. If that wasn’t bad enough it gets worse. We are a hair trigger away from World War III. Reportedly Assad is preparing missile strikes against Tel Aviv if Syria is attacked again. Meanwhile, back in Obama’s America, don’t call Libya’s weapon recovery program “buyback” that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton funded using $40 million of your tax dollars
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Rand Paul: Senate should
apologize to Apple for
‘spectacle’ hearing on taxes
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Brendan Sasso
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 12:48:45 PM
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted his colleagues on Tuesday for holding a hearing to examine Apple´s methods for avoiding taxes. "I frankly think the committee should apologize to Apple," Paul said during a hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Paul said he was offended by the "tone and tenor of the hearing." "I´m offended by the spectacle of dragging in executives from an American company that is not doing anything illegal," Paul said. The subcommittee released a report on Monday that found that Apple has avoided billions of dollars in taxes in recent years
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IRS scandal focus of
Senate hearing
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Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe & William Branigin
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 12:40:10 PM
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The outgoing acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and his predecessor denied Tuesday that they misled Congress about the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, telling a Senate panel that they were not aware of the practice when it started. Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Steven T. Miller, the acting commissioner who submitted his resignation under pressure last week, and Douglas Shulman, a George W. Bush appointee who headed the IRS from March 2008 to November 2012, also rejected the idea that political partisanship played a role in singling out conservative nonprofits for heightened scrutiny.
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The pope and the devil:
Francis’ obsession with Satan
leads to suspicion he
performed exorcism
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Associated Press, by Nicole Winfield
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 12:29:07 PM
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VATICAN CITY — Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, and he then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops’conference said it had surveyed exorcists, who agreed there was “no doubt” that Francis either performed an exorcism or a prayer to free the man from the devil. The Vatican was more cautious Tuesday. In a statement,
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Sheriffs: Cuomo Asked for Silence
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Albany Times Union (Albany, NY), by Jimmy Vielkind
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Posted By: GOPJihad- 5/21/2013 12:24:57 PM
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The sheriffs thought they were being summoned to the Capitol to discuss ideas for changes to New York´s gun control law, the SAFE Act. Instead, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told them to keep quiet. Opposition to the new law has simmered in upstate areas since Cuomo signed the law in January. Many county sheriffs oppose it, particularly its expanded definition of banned assault weapons, and have spoken out around the state. In January, the New York State Sheriffs´ Association wrote Cuomo with an analysis, and later suggested tweaks.
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Future´s so bright we
have to wear shades
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USA Today, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 12:15:15 PM
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The current scene doesn´t look so great. We´ve got the Benghazi scandal, which Bob Woodward has compared to Watergate, we´ve got the IRS scandal, where Democratic members of Congress are saying the IRS director lied, we´ve got the FBI AP-snooping scandal, we´ve got the HHS "private donation" shakedown scandal, and, of course, there´s the still-unfolding Pigford scandal that has funneled billions to grifters. It seems like everything is in tatters. And, in a way, it is. But serious as these problems are, they´re all short-term things. So while at the moment a lot of our political leaders
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IRS official calls decision
to use planted question on
scandal ´incredibly bad idea´
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: drive- 5/21/2013 12:03:16 PM
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The outgoing IRS commissioner expressed regret Tuesday for a decision to use a planted question to go public with the agency´s practice of targeting conservative groups, calling the move "an incredibly bad idea." Steven Miller, appearing on the Hill for a second hearing in two weeks on the scandal, acknowledged that the agency was trying to get ahead of a damning investigative report at the time. As was confirmed over the weekend, he admitted the agency had a question planted at a conference two Fridays ago --
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Howard Dean: ‘Benghazi
is a Laughable Joke’
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:59:15 AM
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Former Democratic National committee chairman Howard Dean considers the controversy over Benghazi a “joke” and “silly.” “Benghazi is a laughable joke,” Dean proclaimed twice in a discussion with Republican National Committee communications chairman Sean Spicer last week. “With all due respect, governor, when four Americans die serving this country, that’s not a joke, sir,” Spicer responded. “Oh, stop it,” said Dean. The former Democratic presidential candidate also said that there were “no serious questions being asked about Benghazi” and brushed it off as an effort by Republicans to score political points.
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IRS Scandal: Outgoing Chief
Says Planted Question His Idea
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:46:36 AM
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In Tuesday´s Senate hearings into the ever-widening IRS scandal, outgoing IRS chief, Steve Miller, acknowledged that the planted question that broke the story last week was his idea. The "planted question" refers to the way in which the IRS chose to release the findings of the Inspector General´s report a week ago Friday. It was an unusual way to deliver bad news, even in a town known for its selective leaks, Friday-night news dumps and wag-the-dog distractions. The Internal Revenue Service, apparently determined to get out ahead of an inspector general report critical of its handling of tax exemptions
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Sharyl Attkisson´s computers compromised
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Politico, by Dylan Byers
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/21/2013 11:39:44 AM
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Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation. "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I´m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I´ve been patient and methodical about this matter," Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. "I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public."
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Cybercrime breaches $1 trillion
a year, China mostly to blame
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:39:02 AM
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Cybercrime and efforts to thwart computer attacks have finally crossed the $1 trillion a year line and Chinese sources are to blame for 89 percent of the high-tech assaults, according to a leading computer security executive and the National Security Administration. The wave of attacks has surged in the past three years to such a level, however, that efforts to defend and fight back haven´t kept up, prompting officials to call for international treaties to cover cyberspace, sanctions on countries that attack U.S. databases and even computer revenge. According to David DeWalt, chairman of the computer
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The Limbaugh Theorem
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 11:29:42 AM
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Earlier this week I wrote a piece about how Barack Obama was criticizing “Washington’s priorities” and the IRS scandal, as if he had not been president for the past four years and four months. There is something brazen and audacious in even attempting something like this. I speculated that Mr. Obama is unable to take responsibility for the problems that have occurred on his watch for reasons rooted in cognitive dissonance (failures cannot possibly happen on the watch of the Great and Mighty Obama). He is engaged in what psychiatrists call disassociation
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GAO: ‘Visa Overstay’ Backlog at
DHS Remains Over One Million
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Weekly Standard, by Jeryl Bier
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:15:44 AM
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Today, the Government Accountability Office issued a report of preliminary finding on the progress the Department of Homeland Security has made in its efforts to reduce the backlog of immigrant visas. Although almost 863,000 records were "closed" in the last two years, the backlog of potential overstays remains at more than one million [emphasis added]: In the summer of 2011, DHS reviewed the 1.6 million potential overstay records. As a result, DHS closed about 863,000 records and removed them from the backlog. Since that time, DHS has continued to review all potential overstay records for national
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Fast and Furious/Benghazi investigative
reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Something
fishy’s been going on with my computers
since early 2011
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Hot Air, by Allahpundit
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:07:29 AM
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Via the Chris Stigall Show and WPHT in Philadelphia. Two weeks ago, this wouldn’t have been worth posting; Attkisson herself, I suspect, wouldn’t have mentioned it publicly. Even if she’s right about something fishy going on, there are other plausible culprits besides the U.S. government when it comes to reporters’ computers being infiltrated. Two weeks later, though, knowing now that the DOJ was willing to order a dragnet of AP reporters’ phone records and actually read James Rosen’s e-mails, there’s no way around the obvious suspicion. If the feds were willing to monitor Rosen and the AP in the
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The Uses of Scandal
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The American Magazine, by John Steele Gordon
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Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/21/2013 10:55:48 AM
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Washington is suddenly awash with major scandals. The IRS has been caught abusing its powers regarding conservative organizations. The AP had its phone records seized without a court order. The White House explanation for the Benghazi attack has been shown to have been a tissue of lies made for political purposes. There might well be more scandals to come. The Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, has reportedly been routinely waiving the substantial fees to fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests for liberal organizations but not for conservative ones. This has produced, naturally, a cacophony of talk among the chattering classes
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