Treasury Department officials were told last year about a probe of the IRS's handling of applications from political groups. But no evidence has yet emerged that key damning details about the targeting were known beyond the IRS itself. Read More

The Republican governor and his family say New Jersey is "stronger than the storm," but critics have accused him of using federal taxpayer dollars to boost his political image. Read More

The former secretary of defense under President George W. Bush said that the controversy over administration talking points following the attack that left four Americans dead was eroding the trust of the public in Obama's presidency. Read More

If President Barack Obama is feeling the heat from the right about the IRS, AP and Benghazi, he won't find much comfort by turning to his base. Read More

Congressman Lloyd Doggett (echoing the argument MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell has been making about the IRS law) scolded Republicans over their politicization of the IRS targeting scandal during a hearing held by the House Ways and Means Committee. Read More

House Ways and Means Committee member, GOP Congressman Vern Buchanan of Florida, discusses his concerns with the IRS' scrutiny of Tea Party groups. Read More

Some of the conservative groups complaining about intrusive questions from the IRS have close connections to Republican politics, suggesting the scrutiny, in some cases, may have been warranted. Read More

As Congressional hearings continue, lawmakers will question whether the idea to scrutinize conservative groups was born within the IRS –which the IG report says—or if goes higher in the Obama administration. Here’s a rundown of seven key people involved in the scandal. Read More

New York Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley, a member of the Ways and Means Committee is accusing Republicans of playing politics. Read More

The demand of Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation — or, more accurately, its political arm Heritage Action — that Congress focus exclusively on the IRS scandal to the exclusion of all else hides two personal vendettas. Read More

Steven Miller, who stepped down this week as acting commissioner of the IRS amid revelations that the agency targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny, apologized to Congress Friday, but said the effort wasn't deliberately partisan. Read More

From the high ground to the rushed condemnations, expect tough questions to take center stage in the House Ways and Means Committee hearing. Read More

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller appears before the House Ways & Means Committee this morning to testify on the growing controversy surrounding the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups. Read More

"Nobody has been more outraged by the actions that were reported in this Inspector General’s review and no one has been more decisive in taking action to deal with it," the White House press secretary told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. Read More

Action man! It was Obama’s third press conference this week as he works to convey competence and transparency. Read More

A day before lawmakers plan to conduct their first hearing Friday on the targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service, President Obama again expressed anger over the episode, while rejecting calls for an independent counsel. Read More

The House will open its first hearing into the IRS abuse scandal Friday, two days after the ouster of the agency's acting chief. Read More

The Florida senator said recent scandals were further evidence of a "culture of intimidation that [Obama's] administration has created." Read More

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, asking the IRS to enforce the law as written and to drop the IRS' false interpretation of the law. Read More

After a terrible week, the White House moved to take control of three issues that have plagued the administration: Benghazi, the IRS scandal and the Justice Department’s decision to seize phone records of AP journalists. Can the president regain his footing? Read More