National Organization for Marriage sues IRS for leaking tax documents to Human Rights Campaign
The National Organization for Marriage announced Thursday a lawsuit in federal court against the Internal Revenue Service for illegally releasing confidential tax documents to the Human Rights Campaign. After the More...
Obama ‘UPS, FedEx, Post Office’ gaffe rings loud during Obamacare debate
President Obama at a 2009 town hall meeting picked on the USPS for not being able to keep up with its private competitors, UPS and FedEx, a comparison that many Obamacare opponents point to now in 2013. Public domain More...
New House Bill to protect groups who support traditional definition of marriage
Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) is sponsoring a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would guarantee that no person or group could lose their tax exempt status for affirming traditional marriage, or opposing More...
IRS Scandal: Lois Lerner rumored to be retiring
Lois Lerner, the key IRS official at the center of the scandal which outed the agency for targeting of Tea Party, conservative and religious groups, is retiring, Fox News confirmed Monday. Lerner was the head More...
IRS Scandal: Lois Lerner called ‘Tea Party very dangerous,’ advises staff on targeting and ‘FEC will save the day’
Lois Lerner, the key player in the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative, religious and Tea Party, called the tea party applications for tax-exempt status problematic, which seems More...
Lois Lerner, IRS colluded with FEC to target conservative groups
Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record before the FEC’s More...
Eric Ohena Lembembe, gay activist, found dead in Cameroon home ‘burned with iron’
Eric Ohena Lembembe, a prominent gay activist in Cameroon for the rights was found dead in his apartment in the capital of Yaoundé, soon after he wrote about attacks in the country on organizations that support More...
IRS scandal to turn attention to how ‘Progressive’ and ‘Occupy Wall Street’ groups have been treated
The top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Elijah Cummings, sent a letter to the top Republican on that committee, Darrell Issa, targeting the man who uncovered the IRS scandal, More...
IRS posts thousands of social security numbers online, most from political groups
The sensitive information was online for less than 24 hours, but the news that IRS posted thousands of social security numbers is another black eye for the tax agency. public domain Many of the Social Security numbers More...
IRS issues $46 million refund to thousands of ‘unauthorized workers’ at Atlanta address
the Internal Revenue Service sent a total of $46,378,040 in refunds to “unauthorized” workers at one address in Atlanta, Ga., according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Brought More...
Democrats, Republicans unite as Dianne Feinstein says No Senate hearing on NSA surveillance anytime soon
While the House of Representatives will hold a rare open intelligence hearing specifically devoted to the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs of data-mining phone records and Internet use, a similar More...
FBI head, Robert Mueller, can’t answer easy questions, can’t name head investigator in IRS scandal
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday grilled a seemingly uninformed FBI Director Robert Mueller on the IRS scandal. Mueller was unable to answer basic questions about the investigation into the tax agency’s political More...
IRS lectures pro-life group ‘not to force religious beliefs on others’
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), released an audio clip of a March 2012 phone call between an IRS agent and Ania Joseph, head of Pro-Life Revolution. During the recorded phone call, IRS agent Sherry Wan is More...
New IRS head Daniel Werfel claims over 64 million documents part of IRS investigation
The Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel has informed the House Ways and Means Committee that the request for IRS documents related to the agency’s targeting of tea party, conservative and religious groups More...
Brave Testimony Regarding IRS Abuses as IRS Scandal details emerge
Must see if you haven’t already. Powerful testimony by Patriots to US Lawmakers investigating the IRS scandal, whereby the IRS was delaying applications and requiring information of Patriot/Tea Party groups More...
Senior IRS agent from Cincinnati didn’t want to be associated with the Tea Party, GOP targeting
On Sunday, the House Republican Darrell Issa spoke about the IRS scandal testimonies, pointing to Washington while he appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Here is a partial transcripts of the closed-door testimony to More...
Monsanto turns to Blackwater for increased security, intelligence and ‘infiltrate activist groups’
Monsanto, a biotechnology farming development company, has hired the private security firm Academi, formerly known as Blackwater, to perform security work and gather intelligence amid growing public opposition More...
