In the drip-drip-drip strategy of information release that characterizes the Obama White House, on Tuesday White House press secretary Jay Carney admitted that Mark Childress, deputy chief of the White House staff, had two conversations with the Treasury Department about
As if Obama’s week couldn’t get any worse, it turns out the White House got the pronunciation of “gif” wrong. In a brief NYT profile of Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF image format, who receive a lifetime achievement award
Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker: The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in
Comedy Central host Jon Stewart has been relentless in attacking President Barack Obama for the various scandals currently engulfing the White House. The Daily Show host is a committed liberal, but he’s been honest enough to comically savage his own
This news comes via Roger L. Simon of PJ Media, who says his sources, two former U.S. diplomats, “sounded credible.” Simon doesn’t report which department the whistleblowers work in, but notes that they are colleagues of the former diplomats, and
Jay Carney’s credibility is now on the line, according to veteran White House correspondent Keith Koffler. He reports today, at White House Dossier, that Monday’s briefing by Carney was filled with acrimony over the ever-evolving narrative put forth by the
The obfuscation continues. Monday’s White House press briefing was enlightening, in many respects, with regard to the ever evolving story of whom at the White House knew about the IRS IG report on the targeting of conservative groups for inappropriate, extra scrutiny.
Working together again, the White House and Media Matters have spent the last week attempting the herculean task of turning the Benghazi-scandal battleship around in the hopes of attacking conservatives. Washington Post factchecker, Glenn Kessler, just destroyed that cynical maneuver.
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee will grill Douglas Shulman, the IRS Commissioner who stepped down last November but was in charge when the agency began targeting Tea Party and conservative organizations as early as 2010. This will be Shulman’s
President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses Kenya, an ancestral homeland. Obama disappointed many Africans by spending only a few hours in sub-Saharan Africa —
The media and the public are aghast at the way the Obama administration has treated Fox News reporter James Rosen like a criminal, merely for reporting on North Korea using State Department sources. The press gave White House spokesperson Jay
Jane Campion is the only woman to win the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’or (Best Film prize) for her 1993 drama, The Piano, as well as the festival’s top short film prize for Peel in 1996. At the opening
With new reports today that the Obama Department of Justice leaked documents intended to smear a whistleblower in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, it is now more obvious than ever that this administration has, in the words of Senate
Chief White House Correspondent with CBS News, Major Garrett grilled White House Press Secretary Jay Carney as to whether President Obama is “OK” with the Department of Justice calling Fox News’ James Rosen a “criminal co-conspirator” in an effort to
The White House press corps posed several angry questions to Obama administration spokesperson Jay Carney about the James Rosen case in his daily briefing Monday. The Washington Post revealed Sunday that Rosen, who works for the Fox News Channel, had been
The Obama administration has clearly decided it is too difficult to play defense on the I.R.S. scandal. They are now pushing a cooked up counter scandal in a blatant attempt to turn the tables on their accusers. Ever since Steve
Michael Steinbach, former head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division and now special agent in charge of Miami, told over 30 congressional staffers in March of 2012 that, contrary to the White House’s classification, the bureau does not refer to the
The White House Visitors Log reveals that President Barack Obama met with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) union boss Colleen Kelley on March 31, 2010–the day before the Inspector General’s report says the IRS began its scheme to target tea party
Andrew McCarthy has a must read post up at National Review about the 10:00 pm phone call between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the night of the Benghazi attack. If the fact that a 10:00 pm phone call took
News reports from the time indicate the now-chief counsel of the IRS, William Wilkins, helped a church connected to President Barack Obama’s friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright get out of an IRS probe in 2008 while working as a private attorney. “Lawyers
Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News has been one of the few reporters attempting to dig deep into controversial stories. But after her work on Fast & Furious and Benghazi, she is now reporting that she’s been shut out of the
In the hopes of manufacturing a self-fulfilling prophecy, the media have spent weeks coordinating an industry-wide conspiracy in which everyone in media asks the same question again and again and again and again: “Will Benghazi backfire on the GOP if
On Face the Nation Sunday, AP’s president and executive said that the government’s seizure of AP reporters phone records was unconstitutional. Gary Pruitt “called the Justice Department’s actions ‘unconstitutional’ and said the AP hasn’t ruled out legal action.” Pruitt went
The Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George, reportedly refused to give “substantive details” about the investigation of the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative to the House Oversight Committee, frustrating committee members. According to reports,
