Elizabeth Sanders

Things just went from bad to worse for Attorney General Eric Holder. Last week, we noted that Holder was setting Deputy Attorney General James Cole up as the fall guy for the AP scandal. Obama said he had “complete confidence”…

“I was right and he was wrong.” In many ways, that was the lesson of Donald Rumsfeld’s event at The Heritage Foundation called Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life, based on his new book of the…

Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the IRS scandal, has been put on administrative leave. The Washington Post is reporting: Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on…

Iranian soldiers are fighting alongside troops supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah troops, according to a State Department official. The Washington Post is reporting: An unknown number of Iranians are fighting inside Syria, the official said, citing accounts from…

Lois Lerner, the IRS director of tax exempt groups, said she did nothing wrong in her opening statement before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, before pleading the Fifth and refusing to answer any questions. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)…

It took them a while, but it seems like at least some Democrats are realizing just how bad the IRS scandal is. Yesterday, it seemed like the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee wanted to complain more about 501(c)(4) groups…

In a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, former IRS chief Douglas Shulman refused to apologize for the targeting of conservative groups under his leadership. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) directly asked for an apology to his constituents. Shulman…

Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS’s tax-exempt-organizations division, will plead the Fifth in a hearing before the House Oversight Committee tomorrow. Lerner, who has known of the targeting for two years, will not answer questions before the committee according…

Billionaire Frank VanderSloot made headlines last week when he said he faced two audits from the IRS and one from the Labor Department after donating to Mitt Romney’s campaign. VanderSloot has been talking about this since it happened, and Kimberely…

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) expressed his outrage over the IRS process in a hearing on the IRS targeting scandal, but not about the right issue. The perspective of any rational person would be that the IRS broke…