The Washington Post reports an IRS agent from the Cincinnati office at the heart of the scandal points to Washington, “Everything comes from the top,” the anonymous whistle-blower says. “We don’t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive.” On the Fox News Sunday, […]

House Speaker John Boehner escalated the rhetoric Wednesday, telling reporters that his question “isn’t about who’s going to resign” over the controversy. “My question is, who’s going to jail?” the Ohio Republican said at a press conference with fellow House Republican leaders Wednesday morning, according to The Washington Times.  Sen. Marco Rubio addressed the Obama […]

Confronting a hailstorm of questions on the Justice Department’s secret subpoena of AP phone records and the IRS targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder and White House press secretary Jay Carney struggled to stay on message, clinging for dear life to phrases like “unfettered,” “inappropriate” and “striking a balance,” Daily […]

The Associated Press revealed Monday that Obama’s Justice Department secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor phone records from the spring of 2012, the latest and most illustrative example of the Obama administration’s unprecedented war on leaks. AP president and chief executive officer Gary Pruitt wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder […]

Government investigators have found that the Internal Revenue Service scrutinized conservative groups for raising political concerns over government spending, debt and taxes or even for advocating making America a better place to live, according to new details likely to inflame a widening IRS controversy, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Republicans said Sunday that the […]