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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) sparred over a line of questioning regarding the handling of Boston bombing suspect Tamerian Txarnaev yesterday. In response to leading questions from Gohmert about whether the FBI failed to question Tsarnaev in a “thorough enough” manner, Holder responded stating: “You’ve made statements as matters of […]
US Attorney General Eric Holder says he’s asked the FBI to investigate the “outrageous and unacceptable” behavior at the IRS, and to see if any criminal actions were taken by the agency. Holder told reporters Tuesday that he recused himself last year from any involvement in an investigation of national security leaks adding that decisions […]
Senator John McCain defended President Obama on ABC’s This Week Sunday. The Senator cautioned his Republican colleagues to calm down regarding talk of impeaching the President over the attack in Benghazi. In response to a clip of Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) using the “I word,” McCain told host Martha Raddatz: “With all due respect, I […]
Robert Gates, the former Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and President Obama, forcefully defended the Obama administration’s handling of the events surrounding the recent tragedy in Benghazi on CBS’s Face the Nation. Gates even went as far as saying that critics of the Obama administration have a “cartoonish impression of military capabilities […]