Washington Times, Senate GOP Demands Obama Turn Over All Communications with IRS: Senate Republicans on Thursday asked President Obama to turn over all communications he and his aides have had with the IRS since 2010, hoping to find out whether the tax collection agency shared private taxpayer information with political…

New American, Surveillance of the Right Is Not New: The IRS Scandal in Historical Perspective: The Obama administration’s ongoing coverup of the IRS scandal about targeting the Tea Party is not the first instance of the federal government persecuting the political Right with IRS audits. In fact, the current IRS…

IR-2015-13, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Program Reports on Activities (Jan. 29, 2015): The Internal Revenue Service’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Program Office has issued its annual program report, which describes how LITCs have assisted thousands of low income taxpayers nationwide with free or low-cost representation, education and advocacy services….

Judicial Watch, Obama Administration Refuses to Release Time Records of Key Attorney in IRS Scandal Investigation: Judicial Watch announced today that the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) is going to extreme lengths to keep from the public the number of hours DOJ Attorney Barbara Bosserman expended on the investigation of…

Bloomberg, Ted Cruz Leads the New Conservative Crusade Against the IRS: Though the first day of Loretta Lynch’s AG hearings went as well as Democrats might have wanted, Senator Ted Cruz managed to steal the spotlight on an issue near and dear to the hearts of many conservatives: reforming the…

Power Line, Sharyl Attkisson to Testify on Lynch Confirmation, But Why?: Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, will testify tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It should be an interesting day. … Its witness list includes Sharyl Attkisson and Catherine Engelbrecht. Both have grievances against the Obama administration….

Commentary, Contentions Obama Administration Again Proves It Cannot Be Trusted with Your Data: Yesterday’s important ObamaCare revelation was the latest in a series of Obama-era developments in which big-government projects prove their conservative critics correct. This particular aspect of the administrative state is, however, worse than incompetence. It’s yet another…

Commentary, Contentions Obama Administration Again Proves It Cannot Be Trusted with Your Data: Yesterday’s important ObamaCare revelation was the latest in a series of Obama-era developments in which big-government projects prove their conservative critics correct. This particular aspect of the administrative state is, however, worse than incompetence. It’s yet another…

OpenSecrets.org, In the Garden of Dark Money, the Thorny Case of Rosebush Corp.: Ever since news broke in 2013 that the IRS had targeted the exemption applications of tea party and some other politically-oriented groups for extra scrutiny, conventional wisdom had it that the agency throws up roadblocks for organizations…