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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, The New York Times, Journalism, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama
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U.S. Justice Dept tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
ReutersBy Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - A Justice Department official insisted on Wednesday that no financial company is too big to jail, in the department's latest effort to backpedal from statements made in March by Attorney General Eric...Tags: Business Institutions, HSBC Holdings plc, Parties and Movements, Financial Markets, Prosecution
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U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate and said...Tags: International Relations, Civil Rights, National Government, Barack Obama, Rand Paul
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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...
Tags: Greenpeace, Internal Revenue Service, Saudi Arabia, The New York Times, Richard Nixon
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Banks still want bailouts
The Philadelphia InquirerThe following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, May 21: The nation's biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out. Renewed interest in...Tags: David Vitter, Sherrod Brown, Finance, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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FACTBOX-Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking...Tags: Taxation, Darrell E Issa, Denis R. McDonough, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Parties and Movements
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Rep. Brown asks Department of Justice to review shooting of Torey Breedlove
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate the death of Torey Breedlove, a suspected car thief who was killed in a hail of gunfire by Orange County deputies three years ago. Brown's request follows a recently...
Tags: Judges, Orange County (Florida), Pine Hills, Justice System
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Factbox: Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking to contain the...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Taxation, Darrell E Issa, Denis R. McDonough, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Editorial: IRS stonewalling makes the case for a special prosecutor
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...
Tags: Taxation, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Dick Cheney
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EDITORIAL: Probe shows need for media shield
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserIf the three controversies that beset the Obama administration last week, the most serious accusation came from the story with the least political sizzle. The fallout from the Benghazi terrorist attack derived its potency from the four deaths that...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Journalism, Al-Qaeda, News Media, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Richard Nixon, Susan Rice, Barack Obama
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EDITORIAL: Upgrade protections of digital records
Seattle TimesTHE last time the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was significantly revised, brick-sized cellphones cost $3,000, email was mostly limited to academics and the military. The World Wide Web was still just a gleam in the eye of Tim Berners-Lee....Tags: Judges, Tim Berners-Lee, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Congress, Electronics
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