Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, went on CNN on Sunday to tout new testimony given by IRS employees in Cincinnati to congressional investigators.

The Kentucky political activist who secretly recorded a Mitch McConnell campaign meeting earlier this year told his side of the story in a first-person account published in Salon on Friday. In it, Curtis Morrison described his actions the day the recording was made, and revealed that charges against him are being presented to a federal grand jury next Friday.

Former senior aides to President Barack Obama were among several dozen U.S. officials and lawmakers who traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan, this week, for an event sponsored by major oil companies.

Meet Selim “Sam” Zherka. New York City strip club proprietor. Westchester county newspaper owner. And the self-described “loudest voice” for the Tea Party in New York state.

In 2011, Arthur Budovsky, also known as Arthur Belanchuk, also known as Eric Paltz, decided to renounce his U.S. citizenship and become a citizen of Costa Rica. His company was developing software, Budovsky told U.S. immigration officials at the time, and he was concerned the software would open him up to liability in the U.S.

One of the oddest aspects of the IRS scandal was the way the story first came to light last Friday, when Lois Lerner, head of the IRS’ tax-exempt organizations division, apologized for inappropriate targeting of conservative groups. The apology, a major admission, was delivered in a decidedly low-profile place: in response to a question from an attendee at a panel during the American Bar Association tax section’s annual meeting in Washington D.C.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday announced that he had ordered a criminal investigation into the IRS scandal, in which the agency was found to have inappropriately screened and handled applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups.

Tucked inside the the government report that found the IRS used inappropriate criteria to identify tax-exempt applications to review is a list of seven questions.

The fateful question came from a tax lawyer, in a room filled with dozens of them. It came at the end of a Friday morning panel, on the second day of the American Bar Association tax section’s big annual meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington D.C. The moderator had announced that it would be the panel’s last question.