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Misfired 2010 email alerted more IRS officials to Tea Party scrutiny A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati in July 2010 alerted a broad group of Washington IRS officials to the heightened scrutiny being given conservative groups, according to an interview...

In the wake of the recent realization that the National Security Agency is creeping on all of us, Anonymous is now touting a trove of documents that the hacker collective says is proof that the NSA is spying on citizens of over 35 different countries. ...

That the government data mines isn't news. That the government has the ability to use secret judicial processes to obtain emails and phone records isn't news. The controversy over the latest revelations is a controversy about things which have been known -- at least in part -- for...

The latest revelation about how deeply the government can watch every one of us.  Allegedly.  Executives of companies involved say they know nothing about the program. But if they did know, could they tell? Or would they be under some sort of gag order similar to...

Chris Christie just announced that the NJ State Attorney General Jeff Chiesa will be appointed to the Senate pending the Special Election in October. Chiesa will not run in the primary or general election. Chiesa said in response to a question on immigration that need to secure...

From The Wall Street Journal, IRS Staff Cite Washington Link: Two Internal Revenue Service employees in the agency's Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that IRS officials in Washington helped direct the probe of tea-party groups that began in 2010. Transcripts of the interviews, viewed Wednesday by The...