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How JFK secretly ADMIRED
Hitler: Explosive book
reveals former President’s
praise for the Nazis as he
travelled through Germany
before Second World War
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Daily Mail (UK), by Allan Hall
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 2:08:40 PM
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new book out in Germany reveals how President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis. The news comes embarrassingly close to a visit being paid to Berlin next month by President Obama - one week before 50th anniversary commemorations of JFK´s memorable ´Ich bin ein Berliner´ speech pledging US solidarity with Europe during the Cold War. President Kennedy´s travelogues and letters chronicling his wanderings through Germany before WWII, when Adolf Hitler was in power, have been unearthed and show him generally in favour of the movement that was to plunge the world into the greatest war in history.
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Reject pipeline´s jobs pipe dreams
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Politico, by Rep. John Conyers
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 2:00:33 PM
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President Barack Obama knows the dangers of not going far enough or fast enough to stop the climate crisis. History will celebrate his decision to lead us toward a clean energy economy that solves climate change and creates long-term, sustainable jobs for Americans. But achieving this awesome goal requires that we reject the TransCanada Corp.’s proposal to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would cut through the heartland of America. This is a simple decision for a president who supports protecting our climate and creating jobs. Returning our economy to stable growth requires Americans to
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Who Has the Edge in
the Va. Governor´s Race?
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Real Clear Politics, by Sean Trende
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Posted By: garnet- 5/23/2013 1:44:52 PM
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With the New Jersey governor´s race looking like a cakewalk for Chris Christie (at least for now), and with New York´s crime problem under control (removing much of the impetus for a Republican mayor), all eyes are on the Virginia gubernatorial race as the premier political contest in 2013. Republicans selected their political slate over the weekend at a convention, settling upon Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as their gubernatorial candidate, E.W. Jackson as their pick for lieutenant governor, and state Sen. Mark Obenshain as their choice for attorney general.
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Spain spent $680 million on
submarine that ‘can’t resurface’
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RIA Novosti [Russia], by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/23/2013 1:43:26 PM
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Spanish engineers, who already spent some $680 million on designing the new generation S-80 class submarine, say it is a major “technical innovation.” There is just one problem the calculations show – if submerged into water, it may never come up again. The Spanish media has been furiously discussing the errors made by the state-owned Navantia construction company, which has spent about a third of the huge $2.2 billion budget only to produce an ‘overweight’ submarine that is not able to float. Spain’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Navantia detected “deviations”
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RNC Chairman Shows How Obama
Scandals Can Backfire on GOP
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: toledo- 5/23/2013 1:43:18 PM
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If you wonder whether (and how) the IRS scandal and related White House shenanigans could backfire on Republicans, watch Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. In the last 24 hours, the man who conducted the "autopsy" on a party battered by President Obama in 2012 reverted to GOP form – demonizing, politicizing and overreaching just enough to jeopardize his cause. Until today, Republican leaders seemed satisfied with letting the White House hang itself, learning from the Clinton-Lewinsky era that there is a fine line between outrage and outrageousness. Priebus may have crossed it. It started with this Wednesday night tweet:
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Networks’ Evening Shows Don’t Name
Islam in London Terror Attack
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NewsBusters, by Matthew Philbin
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 1:33:49 PM
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What does a murderous jihadist terrorist have to do to get some recognition for his cause? You hack a British soldier to death in broad daylight on a London street while shouting “Allahu akbar” and then “swear by the almighty Allah” that you’ll never stop fighting, and the U.S. broadcast networks still can’t bring themselves to utter a word about Islam. True, the ABC CBS and NBC evening broadcasts called the attack “terrorism,” but for all the information they gave viewers, the attackers might have been Basque separatists or animal rights zealots. On “Nightly News” NBC anchor
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Feds don’t look good draped
in the Fifth
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Washington Post, by Joe Davidson
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Posted By: garnet- 5/23/2013 1:31:08 PM
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Like plaids with stripes, federal employees wrapped in the Fifth Amendment don’t look good. We all have the right to wear clothes that clash, and all in this country have the right not to provide testimony that could be used against them. But when federal workers invoke that right, as Lois Lerner did at a House hearing Wednesday, it comes at a cost. A public servant who refuses to answer questions from Congress about the public’s business clashes with the public’s expectations. By asserting her right, Lerner further undermined the credibility of her employer, the Internal Revenue Service,
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A loving father, an Afghan hero
and a fine soldier: Face of ´Riggers´
the innocent drummer, 25, ´butchered
on street by Muslim fanatics
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Daily Mail (UK), by Rob Cooper*
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Posted By: drive- 5/23/2013 1:29:24 PM
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The murdered British soldier executed by two Islamist fanatics was tonight named as Lee Rigby. The 25-year-old ´cheeky and humorous´ serviceman - described as a ´loving father´ to his two-year-old son Jack - was identified as police guarded his home in Middleton, Greater Manchester. Drummer Rigby, a keen football fan who followed Manchester United FC, was just starting his Army career and had recently fought in Afghanistan with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
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Issa looks to call back IRS official
who refused to testify, says she
voided 5th Amendment right
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 1:23:41 PM
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Republican Rep. Darrell Issa declared Thursday that the embattled IRS official who refused to testify Wednesday had no right to do so, and is now looking to haul her back before his committee. The chairman of the House oversight committee made the call after consulting with attorneys about IRS official Lois Lerner´s bizarre appearance before the panel on Wednesday. Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division which oversaw the controversial targeting of conservative groups, caused confusion Wednesday morning when she pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions -- but also delivered an opening statement in which
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Stafford County mom
admits bomb threat
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Free Lance–Star (Fredericksburg, VA), by KEITH EPPS
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Posted By: ArtieC- 5/23/2013 1:21:20 PM
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A woman accused of threatening to blow up the Stafford school administration offices last year pleadedguilty to a misdemeanorWednesday. Constancia Ann Ford, 47, was convicted in Stafford Circuit Court of disorderly conduct. Ford, who had no prior criminal record, had been charged with felonythreat to bomb in connection with the Sept. 5 incident at the administration offices off U.S. 1 in the courthouse area. Prosecutor Amy Casey dropped the felony charge and agreed to the misdemeanor disposition.
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IRS Abuse, the Guide
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PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/23/2013 1:20:31 PM
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Cleta Mitchell has prepared this comprehensive guide to the IRS abuse of election-integrity and Tea Party groups. (Snip) An interesting narrative split is developing among the Left. As Bryan Preston notes, the reliable Praetorian Press Guard, formerly known as JournoList, has a plan: condemn the IRS and say Obama had nothing to do with it. But others, the speech regulators on the Left, must not have been invited to the West Wing meetings with the JournoList members, because groups like Democracy 21 are busy approving of the IRS abuse.
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Treasury Secretary: ‘We are
overachieving on deficit reduction’
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 1:17:30 PM
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Congress that President Obama’s administration is “overachieving on deficit reduction,” as he defended the president for submitting a budget that never balances. “If anything, we are overachieving on deficit reduction right now, given where we are in terms of the current year and immediate economic needs,” Lew told Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., while testifying Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee. “So, the goal, you know, should not be to balance the budget right now.” Lew then confirmed that budget policymakers should plan to raise taxes.
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Cruz to McCain: ‘There may
be more wacko birds in the
Senate’ than you think
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 1:09:20 PM
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Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that he no longer represents the majority of Senate Republicans on the issue of increasing the debt ceiling — and he offered a bet to prove it. “There may be more ‘wacko birds’ in the Senate than is suspected,” Cruz said on the Senate floor, recalling the name that McCain once applied Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., after their talking filibuster against President Obama’s drone policy. To test the hypothesis, Cruz suggested that McCain circulate a letter to the GOP
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IRS stonewalling makes the
case for a special prosecutor
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Chicago Tribune, by Editorial
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Posted By: garnet- 5/23/2013 1:06:30 PM
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"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." — U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., to IRS officials appearing Wednesday before a House investigative committee. "I have not done anything wrong. ... I will not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter." — Lois Lerner, director of the IRS´s tax-exempt organizations division,
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Germany is the ´Most
Popular Country in the World´
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CNBC, by Katie Holliday
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 1:03:01 PM
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Europe´s largest economy Germany, which has been criticized for not doing enough to help struggling euro zone countries, has topped a poll as the world´s most popular country. The survey carried out for the BBC, polled 26,000 people in 25 countries, and asked them to rate 16 countries and the European Union, as a whole, on whether their influence on the world was mainly positive or negative. Germany came out on top, with 59 percent of the survey´s participants awarding it a positive rating. The country moved up three percentage points from its 2012 position.
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The IRS scandal smoking gun?
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United Press International, by Peter Morici
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 12:57:34 PM
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COLLEGE PARK, Md- In the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal and others, Washington and the media are obsessed with the question: What did the president know and when did he know it? That misses the point. Barack Obama´s presidency is much more damaging to the nation than the mistakes of subordinates now coming to light. Most recently, we learned Obama met with anti-Tea Party IRS Union President Colleen Kelley just before the tax agency began targeting conservative groups. Is that the smoking gun? Was the president in on the plan to harass opponents of big government?
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Tea party storm largely
inside IRS _ so far
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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 12:51:29 PM
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WASHINGTON - Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service´s targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency. More than 11 hours of testimony and an inspector general´s report have revealed plenty of wrongdoing within the IRS. But so far, investigators have not produced evidence that anyone outside the IRS authorized the targeting, or even knew about it before a few weeks ago. They will keep trying. Three congressional committees are investigating the matter, and the leaders of those committees
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Democrats and Republicans Unite
on Bill to Shield Press From
Gov´t Intrusion
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Cybercast News Service, by Shannon Quick
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 12:49:24 PM
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A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation on Wednesday to protect journalists from government snooping. “Freedom of the press is a foundational freedom upon which all of our other freedoms and liberties are based and protected,” said Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). The Free Flow of Information Act, H.R. 1962, would protect reporters by preventing the government from compelling the disclosure of their source material, except under certain exceptions that must go through judicial review. Those exceptions include cases where it is necessary to prevent an act of terrorism, imminent death, or other harm to national security.
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´The Unaccountable Executive´
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American Thinker, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 12:45:03 PM
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A Wall Street Journal editorial socks it to the president and his hands-off management style. Every day brings new revelations about who knew what about the IRS targeting conservative groups during President Obama´s re-election campaign, but the overall impression is of a vast federal bureaucracy run amok. While the White House continues to peddle the story of a driverless train wreck, taxpayers are being treated to a demonstration of the dangers of an unwieldy and unaccountable administrative state. Look, Ma, no hands! In his press events, Mr. Obama has said that while he learned about the Cincinnati rogues
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DOJ on ´Gays´: ´Silence Will
be Interpreted as Disapproval´
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Cybercast News Service, by J. Matt Barber
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 12:43:22 PM
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Under President Obama, "justice" is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and listening to your every word. Still, if you happen to be a federal employee, now it´s even listening for your silence. The only thing this Obama White House seems to generate is scandal. Well, here´s yet another to add to the growing list. In addition to the Benghazi cover-up, IRS targeting of political dissenters and the illegal seizure of media phone records, whistleblowers within DOJ have contacted Liberty Counsel
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Obama Meets With Illegal
Aliens in White House
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Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 12:26:45 PM
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three people at the White House Tuesday who are in the country illegally but received “deferred action” that allowed them to stay in the country under a memorandum issued by administration unilaterally last June in a memorandum issued by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. In all, Obama and Biden met with eight people advocating for comprehensive immigration reform on Tuesday, according to White House readout of the meeting. The White House readout of the meeting listed three of those as having received “deferred action.”
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Weiner: More Lewd
Photos Might Come Out
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 12:19:07 PM
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This morning on a radio show, New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted that more lewd photos could come out: “It is what it is,” Weiner told the radio host in his first live interview since announcing his mayoral bid. “People may decide they want to come forward and say, here’s another email that I got or another photo. I’m certainly not going to do that. So people may hear things that are true, they may hear things that are not true, but I’m going to try to keep being focused on issues that are important to
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Sarah Palin for the Senate? Tea
Party says: Run, Sarah, Run
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Washington Times, by Catherine Poe
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 12:11:16 PM
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WASHINGTON — The Tea Party wants former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to join their favorites in the Senate, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.). They say she can win and they have a poll to prove it. Yikes, is America ready for a Senator Palin? The Tea Party Leadership Fun commissioned a Harper Poll that shows Sarah Palin leads the Republican field in Alaska for the upcoming Senate seat. It is only by 2 points (32 to 30%), but that is without her even saying she is interested. Not that Democrat Sen. Mark Begich is planning
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Despite momentum, GOP leadership
still against special Benghazi committee
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Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas
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Posted By: ragu- 5/23/2013 12:03:15 PM
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WASHINGTON — While momentum has been building inside the House Republican conference for a special congressional committee to investigate last year’s terrorist attacks in Benghazi, the GOP leadership is making it clear they still have no enthusiasm for establishing such a committee. About two-thirds of House Republicans – 153 in total – have signed on to the resolution offered by Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia to establish “a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.”“I think there’s a lot of frustration up here among members
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Republican Issa to call IRS´s
Lerner back in Tea Party probe
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Reuters, by Kim Dixon
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 11:56:48 AM
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WASHINGTON - Republican Representative Darrell Issa said on Thursday he will call Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner back to testify before his committee on the IRS-Tea Party scandal after she asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions. "We are obligated to bring Lerner back because she did not properly take the Fifth (Amendment)," Issa said. "She clearly chose to make her statements and then not open herself up to even any questioning as to the statement she made," said Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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