Benghazi

White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure

2013-05-19 13:02:00

WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...

Obama calls on Congress to help protect U.S. diplomats

2013-05-16 12:13:00

WASHINGTON – President Obama on Thursday called on Congress to beef up security at U.S. diplomatic facilities, saying the country owes it to the four Americans who died at the Benghazi, Libya, mission last year to protect other personnel serving...

The GOP pivots on the IRS scandal

2013-05-17 14:16:00

The scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by "tea party" groups and other right-leaning organizations took a sharp turn at the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. In addition to decrying...

Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy

2013-05-16 19:07:00

WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained...

McManus: The second-term scandal plague

2013-05-18 06:52:00

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...

Letters: Back and forth over Benghazi

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Re "Benghazi's smoking guns," Opinion, May 14 Two questions came to mind reading Jonah Goldberg's column. First, who cut the security funding of diplomatic missions a year before the Benghazi attack? (The Republican-controlled House.) And second,...

Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Doctor Who'

2013-05-17 12:18:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor's (Matt Smith)...

Poll: The first firing of the IRS 'tea party' scandal

2013-05-15 17:03:00

The scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for special review claimed its first scalp Wednesday, when Treasury Secretary Jack Lew demanded and received the resignation of the agency's...

Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents

2013-05-14 15:29:00

It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...

Outraged over IRS snooping scandal? Readers aren't

2013-05-14 13:23:00

If the hand-wringing over revelations that the IRS gave additional scrutiny to "tea party" groups and other conservative organizations applying for tax-exempt status is as widespread as the coverage makes it seem, that anger hasn't spread to a place where...

Mistaken Benghazi claim came from CIA, emails show

2013-05-15 19:09:00

WASHINGTON — Career CIA officers were responsible for administration claims that the armed attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead last fall grew out of a protest of an anti-Islamic video, an incorrect assertion that became a...

Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns

2013-05-14 00:00:00

President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things...

A portion of the emails that the White House released to document how the Obama administration crafted its public talking points immediately after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

These images released by the FBI show three unknown suspects sought in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

2013-05-13 11:32:46

President Obama listens during a news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron in the White House as reporters press him on the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

2013-05-13 00:00:00