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
Hunter Walker reports on what one election law expert calls “the most blatant and shameful” voter suppression effort Ohio has yet seen. Read More
The House Ways and Means Committee has the first shot at IRS officials in a hearing tht gets underway at 9 a.m. ET. The main witness will be Steven Miller, who was just ousted* as acting IRS director and before that role had been deputy commissioner. You can watch the proceedings live here. Read More
As Benghazi ‘scandal’ crumbles, Woodward begs for relevance, compares scandal to Watergate. Watch.
TPM Reader RP wonders why Democrats aren’t going to town over the doctored quotes from the Benghazi emails:
Longtime reader, but this is the first time I’ve commented or written.
Watching the Dems (lack of) reaction to the news that Republicans much fabricated self-serving quotes (or misquoted if you care to be generous about it) from the Benghazi e-mails and fed them to the press makes me wonder (again) why are they so bad at this game?
Generally, once partisan, tendentious sources leak information that turns out to be wrong, nothing’s ever done about it. That’s for many reasons, some good or somewhat understandable, mostly bad. But on CBS Evening News tonight, Major Garrett did something I don’t feel like I’ve seen in a really long time or maybe ever on a network news cast. He basically said straight out: Republicans told us these were the quotes, that wasn’t true. Quick transcript after the jump … Read More
We’ve got a third.
Head of sexual harassment prevention program at Fort Campbell arrested for stalking his wife.
How bad the week appeared for the President might depend on which network you were watching.
Okay, folks, let’s go on the record about where all this is going. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months out. Where is this trio of scandals going to be. Big problem? Does it build? Or is it all basically old news in a few weeks? We’re discussing this right now at TPMPrime. I’d like to know what you think.