Elizabeth Sanders
The lesson coming out of South Carolina these days seems to be that people don’t like being told what to do by outsiders. South Carolinians know what they believe and outside outrage isn’t going to change that. We saw it…
The official who ran the IRS office on tax-exempt organizations when the Tea Party was being targeted is now the director of the IRS office on Obamacare. The IRS confirmed her position to ABC: Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner…
In his opening statement before a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee today, former acting IRS director Steve Miller apologized for the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS, saying: “Partisanship has no place in the IRS.” After…
Opponents of voter ID laws like to say that voter fraud doesn’t matter and never affects election results. But as we learned this week, voter fraud is the reason John Rizzo, a Missouri House representative, won in the state’s 19th…
As if the IRS wasn’t in enough trouble already, its also facing a lawsuit for mishandling medical records. A medical company in California filed a class-action lawsuit against 15 IRS employees, alleging that they wrongly seized over 60 million medical…
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) made headlines this morning when he said in an interview that the Department of Justice “wiretapped” the phones in the House of Representatives cloakroom, where members and only the most trusted staffers socialize and talk amongst…
As Matt reported yesterday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole is being set up as the fall guy for the Department of Justice’s subpoena of AP journalists’ phone records. In a press conference Thursday, Obama said he had “complete confidence” in Attorney General…
After IRS acting chief Steve Miller was forced to resign, it was only a matter of time before there was another casualty. It turns out it’s Joseph Grant, comissioner of the IRS’s tax exempt and government entities division. The AP is…
How culpable is Attorney General Eric Holder for his department’s mining of phone calls made by Associated Press journalists? That was the question on everyone’s mind on Capitol Hill yesterday, where members of both parties grilled Holder during a hearing…
H/T The Jerusalem Post Fatah, the Palestinian political and military organization founded in the 1950s to gain control of territory through guerrilla warfare, agreed to an Arab League proposal authorizing land swaps for a peace deal with Israel. Fatah, which governs…
