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Attorney General Eric Holder Orders Probe into IRS Targeting Conservative Groups
(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder says he's ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative...
Holder On The Hot Seat
Lawmakers take their best shots at the embattled Attorney General in today's House Judiciary Committee hearing
Scrambling To Find AP Leaker, Obama’s Administration Vindicates Bush
To judge from this week’s developments, we’re still accelerating in the direction set by George W. Bush after 9/11 towards a retrenchment of White House power...
Justice Investigating IRS Targeting of Tea Party
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another probe concludes that lax management...
Morning Must Reads
In the news: IRS, Eric Holder, the deficit, Boston Marathon bombings a month later, Pentagon furloughs, Texas gun laws, "Space Oddity"
Will the Boston Bomber Get the Death Penalty?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s best hope of escaping death is to admit his guilt
Holder to Take Pay Cut
The Attorney General intends to take a pay cut equivalent to the maximum amount any Justice Department employee has to take as a result of the sequestration,...
Holder Urges Senators to Confront Gun Violence
(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder is urging Congress to confront gun violence by requiring universal background checks, imposing tougher penalties on...
Rand Paul, John Brennan and the Exploding Cafe Scenario
Rand Paul, the libertarian Republican Senator from Kentucky, has spent the past several hours, with the help of a few GOP colleagues, leading an unexpected...
Senator Launches Lengthy Debate to Block CIA Pick
(WASHINGTON) — A Republican critic of the Obama administration's drone policy mounted a self-described filibuster Wednesday to block Senate confirmation of John...
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Bellingham man arrested in threats to kill Inslee, Obama and others
The Associated Press OLYMPIA -- Police have arrested a Bellingham man accused of writing letters to The Olympian newspaper that contained threats to kill Gov. Jay Inslee, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ...
Holder: Security leak demanded secret use of AP phone records
Attorney General Eric Holder's insistence that he had no role in the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press frustrated some members of Congress. ...
Holder defends Perez's tenure at Justice Dept.
Attorney General Eric Holder and a leading House Republican clashed Wednesday over the Justice Department's refusal to turn over the private emails of Thomas Perez, a top...
GOP, Dems challenge Holder over subpoenas to AP
Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security...
