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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Republican Party, Sports, Tea Party Movement
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RPT-U.S. industry touts 'drone' promise as public debate flares
ReutersBy Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it...Tags: U.S. Military, U.S. Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Wars and Interventions, Washington, DC
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Roger Clemens, Republican Party, Sports
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Man linked to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI in Florida
ReutersORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed by a federal agent in Florida on Wednesday after he suddenly turned violent,...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Peter T. King, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Police Investigations, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: Pakistan, University of Oxford, Washington, DC, Queens (New York City), Armed Conflicts
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Editorial: IRS stonewalling makes the case for a special prosecutor
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Justice System, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Orrin Hatch
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Government killed four Americans in drone strikes
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government formally acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Attorney General Eric Holder...Tags: Yemen, U.S. Department of Defense, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, White House
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U.S. industry touts 'drone' promise as public debate flares
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to...Tags: U.S. Military, U.S. Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Wars and Interventions, Aircraft Carriers
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U.S. Justice Dept tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
ReutersBy Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - A Justice Department official insisted on Wednesday that no financial company is too big to jail, in the department's latest effort to backpedal from statements made in March by Attorney General Eric...Tags: Justice System, Financial and Business Services, Economy, Business and Finance, Prisons, Republican Party
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U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate and said...Tags: Pakistan, International Law, Civil Rights, Human Rights, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...
Tags: Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard Nixon, News Media, The Washington Post
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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...
Tags: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Richard Nixon, Internal Revenue Service, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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