Outside the Beltway

Not surprisingly, Lois Lerner’s attorney is saying his client will only testify under a grant of immunity.

Lois Lerner is likely headed back to Congress over the largely phony charge that she waived her Fifth Amendment rights.

Today is the deadline for Darryl Issa to respond to a request from Elijah Cummings to defend a decision not to release IRS interview transcripts. What happens if Issa doesn’t respond?

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

The IRS spent $50 million on 225 employee conferences. What did the taxpayer get in return?

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

A round of finger pointing in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.

There’s no evidence that Fast & Furious, whatever it was, was a conspiracy to lobby for tighter gun control laws.

The stage is set for a showdown between the Executive and Legislative Branches.

Is there any legal merit to the Administration’s invocation of Executive Privilege?

The dispute between the Justice Department and the House of Representatives just became a bigger deal.

Many on the right seem unwilling to condemn clearly offensive remarks by Rush Limbaugh

Wikipedia’s English language site will be offline for 24 hours tomorrow to protest two controversial online piracy bills.

Becoming a Member of Congress can be a very lucrative career.

Why was the ATF allowing thousands of weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug gangs?