NYT: Obama Administration Knew of IRS Scandal 5 Months Before Election

John Nolte Breitbart.com Big Journalism 17 May 2013

In no uncertain terms and with no hedging, The New York Times reports that the Obama Administration was aware of the fact that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups as far back as June of 2012. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General confirmed that he told senior […]

Congressman Devin Nunes Previews Ways And Means Hearing Friday, Plus A Bombshell On The AP Scandal

The Hugh Hewitt Show 5/15/2013

…HH: Congressman Nunes, I’ve been through the IG’s report. I wrote a lengthy piece on it for Townhall, as has my colleague, Carol Platt Liebau, used to be a Congressional staffer, managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. Smart people are going through this report. It’s a whitewash. There is, […]

IRS Watchdog: Senior IRS Officials Knew in 2011 Tea Parties’ Tax-Exempt Status Being Targeted

IRS anti-Tea Party scandal gets real — senior IRS officials aware of targeting (Update – Chief Counsel knew and targets expanded to groups “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights”)

William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 5/11/2013

This is getting real.

Yesterday it was just some “low level” employees involved. Now AP is reporting that […]

GOP Reps ask IRS to investigate AARP

Meredith Jessup The Blaze 4/8/2011

With reports that the AARP may bank $1 billion from ObamaCare — a law the non-profit organization lobbied hard for — three Republicans on the House Ways and Means committee have sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service calling for an investigation into the tax-exempt status of AARP. The […]

GOP sets sights on AARP over its support for healthcare reform

Julian Pecquet The Hill 3/25/2011

Newly empowered House Republicans are getting ready to renew their attacks against AARP over its support for the healthcare reform law, The Hill has learned.

The Ways and Means health and oversight subcommittees are hauling in the seniors lobby’s executives before the panel for an April 1 hearing on how […]

Dr. Donald Berwick testified before House Ways and Means Committee today

Rep. Tom Price, M.D., on Don Berwick’s Hearing Today

Ben Domenech RedState 2/10/2011

…This line of questioning led to a side-by-side moment that is really made for TV — Berwick today saying: “I abhor rationing. My entire life has been spent fighting rationing.”

Compare that to a quote from Berwick in 2009: “The decision […]

Categories