http://www.mail.com/people/2940-darrell-issa.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/2940-darrell-issa.html http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2156418-irs-official-contradicts-claims-reviews.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington scrutinized the very first application from a tea party group seeking tax-exempt status — and dozens of others, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action, an IRS official has told congressional investigators. Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy ... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:01:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2156418-irs-official-contradicts-claims-reviews.html 2013-06-17T17:01:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2140132-irs-manager-white-house-involved-reviews.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released a partial transcript of the House Co... Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:42:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2140132-irs-manager-white-house-involved-reviews.html 2013-06-09T18:42:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2135994-was-irs-targeting-limited-to-cincinnati-office.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators are starting to see cracks in the Internal Revenue Service argument that a small group of agents in the Cincinnati office solely targeted conservative political groups. Investigators, who are still in the early stages of their probe, have not uncovered any direct evidence that senior officials in Washington or... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:44:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2135994-was-irs-targeting-limited-to-cincinnati-office.html 2013-06-07T22:44:18Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2137898-irs-names-official-investigations-continue.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has named a new official to help oversee the workers who process applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status. Until now that post has been held by Holly Paz. Her name has surfaced in the investigations into IRS mistreatment of conservative groups seeking a tax-exempt designation. An internal IRS announ... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:26:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2137898-irs-names-official-investigations-continue.html 2013-06-07T22:26:18Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2133322-irs-official-apologizes-lavish-4m-conference.html WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a "Star Trek" parody shown at the 2010 gathering conceded to Congress on Thursday that taxpayer dollars were wasted in the episode. "We're now in a very different environment" with new IRS spending curbs, F... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:35:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2133322-irs-official-apologizes-lavish-4m-conference.html 2013-06-07T04:35:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2126546-white-house-obama-concerned-irs-spending.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is concerned by excessive spending by the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies on conferences and travel. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Obama has taken already taken action to reduce spending. He's pointing out that Obama installed new IRS leadership after the agency acknowledged... Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:08:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2126546-white-house-obama-concerned-irs-spending.html 2013-06-03T18:08:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2124648-house-panel-report-finds-50m-irs-conferences.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog has found that the Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012, a House committee said Sunday. The chairman of that committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., also released excerpts of congressional investigators' interviews with employees of the... Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:48:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2124648-house-panel-report-finds-50m-irs-conferences.html 2013-06-03T02:48:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2114564-house-chairman-subpoenas-documents-benghazi.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday for State Department documents related to the widely debunked talking points about the cause of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is pressing for material from 10 curre... Tue, 28 May 2013 21:14:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2114564-house-chairman-subpoenas-documents-benghazi.html 2013-05-28T21:14:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2102266-broke-laws-irs-official-then-takes-5th.html WASHINGTON (AP) — At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer lawmakers' further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself. In one of the most elec... Wed, 22 May 2013 23:25:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2102266-broke-laws-irs-official-then-takes-5th.html 2013-05-22T23:25:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103622-benghazi-review-leader-oks-meeting-with-committee.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee chairman has withdrawn a subpoena to compel a retired diplomat to answer questions in private about an independent investigation of last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya. Rep. Darrell Issa (EYE'-suh) says he acted after Thomas Pickering agreed to meet with the House Oversight and Committee Reform Committee behind closed... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:25:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103622-benghazi-review-leader-oks-meeting-with-committee.html 2013-05-22T19:25:35Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2099500-irs-official-to-take-5th-house-hearing.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lois Lerner heads the IRS division that singled out conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they... Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2099500-irs-official-to-take-5th-house-hearing.html 2013-05-21T22:45:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2094950-why-benghazi-issue-coming.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute. Why were a diplomatic outpost and the visiting U.S. ambassador left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have ru... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:26:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2094950-why-benghazi-issue-coming.html 2013-05-19T12:26:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089568-obama-calls-congress-to-fund-embassy-security.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security. Obama's call was the second step in as many days designed to combat GOP char... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:44:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089568-obama-calls-congress-to-fund-embassy-security.html 2013-05-16T20:44:56Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2088532-holder-defends-perezs-tenure-justice-dept.html WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 department official nominated to be labor secretary. California Rep. Darrell Issa repeatedly pressed Holder about why the Justice Department won't release the personal ... Wed, 15 May 2013 21:19:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2088532-holder-defends-perezs-tenure-justice-dept.html 2013-05-15T21:19:24Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2088342-gop-dems-challenge-holder-subpoenas-to-ap.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records. In exchanges that often turned testy, Holder... Wed, 15 May 2013 20:27:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2088342-gop-dems-challenge-holder-subpoenas-to-ap.html 2013-05-15T20:27:03Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2085416-justice-investigating-irs-targeting-tea-party.html WASHINGTON (AP) — As the investigation into the IRS' targeting of conservative political groups widens, House Speaker John Boehner says he has a question: "Who's going to jail over this scandal?" "There are laws in place to prevent this type of abuse. Someone made a conscious decision to harass and to hold up these requests for tax exempt status," Boehner... Wed, 15 May 2013 15:58:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2085416-justice-investigating-irs-targeting-tea-party.html 2013-05-15T15:58:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086068-heads-benghazi-review-board-theyll-testify.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the panel that independently reviewed last year's deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, said Tuesday they were prepared to testify publicly before Congress to counter what they consider unfounded criticism of their work. In a letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, veteran ... Wed, 15 May 2013 01:04:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086068-heads-benghazi-review-board-theyll-testify.html 2013-05-15T01:04:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2084204-irs-chief-agency-lacked-sensitivity-screenings.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he said those mistakes won't be repeated. In his first public comment on the case, Steven Miller said there was "a shortcut taken in our processes" for determining which group... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:14:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2084204-irs-chief-agency-lacked-sensitivity-screenings.html 2013-05-14T18:14:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the wo... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:01:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html 2013-05-14T17:01:02Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2081186-top-irs-official-reveal-tea-party-targeting.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he said those mistakes won't be repeated. In his first public comment on the case, Steven Miller said there was "a shortcut taken in our processes" for determining which group... Tue, 14 May 2013 14:07:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2081186-top-irs-official-reveal-tea-party-targeting.html 2013-05-14T14:07:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2082032-obama-tries-to-swat-2-swirling-controversies.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political groups by the federal IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after last year's deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Simultaneous investigations — and demands by Republicans for mo... Mon, 13 May 2013 21:15:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2082032-obama-tries-to-swat-2-swirling-controversies.html 2013-05-13T21:15:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081158-obama-slams-gop-focus-benghazi-politics.html WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year as President Barack Obama asserted that GOP charges of a cover-up are baseless. The latest Republican focus is the independent review that slammed the State Department for inadequate security a... Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081158-obama-slams-gop-focus-benghazi-politics.html 2013-05-13T21:03:25Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2080096-review-chairman-clinton-benghazi-call.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering said Sunday. "They've tried to point a finger at people more senior than wher... Sun, 12 May 2013 18:53:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2080096-review-chairman-clinton-benghazi-call.html 2013-05-12T18:53:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2080078-senator-irs-targeting-tea-party-chilling.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Sunday that the Internal Revenue Service's heightened scrutiny of conservative political groups was "chilling" and further eroded public trust in government. Lawmakers said President Barack Obama personally should apologize for targeting tea party organizations and they challenged the tax agency's blaming of low-level wo... Sun, 12 May 2013 16:53:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2080078-senator-irs-targeting-tea-party-chilling.html 2013-05-12T16:53:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2073424-democrats-scandal-benghazi-deaths.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats. History suggests it might be a tough lift. The issue is complex, the next presidential election is more than three years... Thu, 09 May 2013 16:22:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2073424-democrats-scandal-benghazi-deaths.html 2013-05-09T16:22:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2070520-us-official-describes-libya-attack.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In a slow, ha... Thu, 09 May 2013 04:28:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2070520-us-official-describes-libya-attack.html 2013-05-09T04:28:25Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2064356-cnns-kurtz-apologizes-errors-collins-story.html NEW YORK (AP) — Media critic Howard Kurtz used his CNN show on Sunday to point a finger at himself, apologizing for a story on gay basketball player Jason Collins that he said was riddled with errors and shouldn't have been written in the first place. The extraordinary edition of CNN's "Reliable Sources" contained not only his apology but also a session w... Sun, 05 May 2013 17:14:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2064356-cnns-kurtz-apologizes-errors-collins-story.html 2013-05-05T17:14:16Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2059466-kurtz-leaves-dailybeast-retracted-blog-post.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Columnist Howard Kurtz left The Daily Beast on Thursday, the same day the website retracted one of his blog posts in which he mistakenly accused NBA player Jason Collins of hiding a previous engagement to a woman before declaring this week that he is gay. A person close to the matter said Kurtz was fired because this was the latest in a... Fri, 03 May 2013 00:11:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2059466-kurtz-leaves-dailybeast-retracted-blog-post.html 2013-05-03T00:11:16Z