The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/15: British LulzSec hackers await sentencing this week, police in China pursue blogger for White House petition, publisher threatens to sue blogger for $1billion, latest coach-student sexting scandal, ZPanel official
(AP) GOP demands more despite Benghazi email releaseBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy
President Barack Obama spent a mere four minutes Wednesday addressing an Inspector General’s report that concluded the IRS inappropriately targeted conservative and Tea Party groups. Obama did not take any questions from reporters; he said he would at a press
*UPDATED* Congressman Nunes’ office released the following statement: “Rep. Nunes was not referring to wiretapping of the cloakroom, but to the seizure of the AP’s phone records from the House Press Gallery in the Capitol. He was explaining that those records
This afternoon the White House released a 100 pages of repetitive emails from September 14th and 15th. The emails confirm that the State Department was deeply concerned about a bullet point highlighting prior attacks in Benghazi. The email release shows
A day after the Inspector General released an audit that found the IRS inappropriately targeted Tea Party and conservative groups, President Barack Obama on Wednesday again lectured Congress on bipartisanship, warning members of Congress that their actions in the coming
(AP) – Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more detail publicly
(AP) White House releases trove of Benghazi documentsWASHINGTONThe White House is releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration’s response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, last September. The White House had
(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
In a week when scandals plague the White House, late night comics are still struggling to find a way to turn the news of the day into punch lines. There’s nothing funny about President Barack Obama. That’s what we’ve been
In a tense exchange Wednesday afternoon between Major Garrett of CBS News and White House spokesman Jay Carney, the White House refused to offer a straight answer to Garrett’s repeated requests that the Administration release the full email chain surrounding
In Part One of this series, published on Monday, I used the word “Watergate” seven times, openly comparing the scandalous Obama administration to the scandalous Nixon administration. I didn’t know the half of it. Just hours after Part One ran, we all
In response to IRS and the Beckett protocol: Color me skeptical that the President was above the fray, as King Henry II supposedly was before his knights slaughtered Thomas Beckett. The idea that Obama is merely “President Passerby”, as Dana
The Inspector General report released late Tuesday omitted the names of the IRS agents or personnel involved in targeting tea party and limited government groups. But according to the official IRS manual, any individuals found to have engaged in the
One common thread in the multiple scandals hammering the Obama White House is the president’s claim that he first heard of the stories from news reports. Many find this claim to be unbelievable and are beginning to echo Sen. Howard
Wednesday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” guest panelist Steve Rattner, a former New York Times reporter who believes the biggest scandal of the three currently facing the White House is Benghazi, asked David Axelrod what he believes the Administration should
In response to IRS IG Report Could Not Determine Who Was Involved in Creating Criteria: Liz, a great historical analogy for the allegedly spontaneous decision of so many “low level” IRS agents to join the Obama 2012 oppo research team
***UPDATE: NBC’s senior White House correspondent joined the chorus Wednesday. On his MSNBC show, “The Daily Rundown,” Chuck Todd looked into the camera and said, “Attention White House: Release all the emails.” The headline has been updated to add NBC.
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanded “no more stonewalling” from President Barack Obama regarding the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups. McConnell called on Obama to “make available, completely and without restriction, everyone who can
According to Ronald Ehrenberg, economist and professor of labor and industrial relations at Cornell, tuition at selective private colleges and universities has grown at two to three percentage points over the rate of inflation for over a century. However, “it
That’s adorable. At NPR, which should be lauded for promoting the mentally impaired, a Very Special American named Ron Elving writes: The sudden eruption of second-term scandals in his administration will have many costs for President Obama, but surely the
The Associated Press is far from satisfied by the Department of Justice’s initial response regarding the government grabbing months of phone records from the wire service. Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, sent a sternly worded follow-up
Many in the media bit on this bait from the Obama Administration today. The Administration released one (1) email, which differed from quotations of it in small respects. They are now claiming “doctored emails:” So the GOP – after all
The Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury has released its 54-page report on the targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Earlier Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice would
Late-night host Conan O’Brien at the 2013 White House Correspondents dinner in April: “Now I’ve made some jokes about the President this evening, [turns to Obama] and I’m looking forward to my audit.”
