Toronto Mayor sorta denies smoking crack with Somali crack dealers.
Daily Caller accuses Obama of breaching ‘Marine umbrella protocol.’
TPM Reader JB has his own take on why Dems aren’t going into full freak out mode over those doctored emails …
You know the answer to your correspondent RP’s question about the lack of Democratic reaction to manufactured quotes about Benghazi.
Rep. now about to pop a blood vessel at the IRS hearing is Rep. Tim Griffin, central player in the US Attorney Firing Scandal.
ICYMI: Something that never happens, mainstream reporters call out Republican staffers for giving reporters doctored White House Benghazi emails.
This is delightfully bizarre: an actual planted question. Not the fever dream of conspiracists. But an actual, real life, planted question. A rare species.
Acting IRS Director Steven Miller has confirmed that the question that revealed the IRS’ inappropriate targeting of conservative groups was planted. It was arranged ahead of time to be asked during a Q&A at a tax lawyer’s conference in DC. The IRS knew the inspector general’s report would be coming out soon and this was their nascent effort to get ahead of the story. You see how that turned out.
Drinking with friends, Colorado women accidentally shoots and kills herself with her new assault rifle.
Testimony in Italy today revealed that former PM Silvio Berlusconi’s infamous ‘Bunga Bunga’ sex parties not only included women dressed as “sexy nuns and nurses” but also dressed as President Obama.
You may recall that the IRS scandal emerged in unusual fashion: an acknowledgement of it by an IRS official during a Q&A at a tax lawyers conference in Washington a week ago today. (TPM’s Eric Lach reported earlier this week on the circumstances of the revelation and how stunned members of the audience were when it happened.)
Today, under questioning from Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), acting IRS Director Steven Miller seemed to acknowledge that the question in the Q&A was planted. But his answer wasn’t entirely clear, and Nunes oddly failed to follow up. More soon.
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) opened this morning’s hearing on the IRS scandal with a fusillade against the “rotten” U.S. tax system and the Obama administration’s “culture of cover-ups – and political intimidation.” He also warned darkly that “every civic group in America is at risk – the Knights of Columbus, the Rotary, the JC’s, the American Legion and VFW clubs.”
But Camp alleged that the scandal goes beyond just the targeting of conservative groups for additional scrutiny of whether they were impermissibly engaged in partisan political activity. He pinpointed a total of “five serious violations” by the IRS (from his prepared remarks): Read More