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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Crashed-server claim fails smell test

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

HUMPHRIES: The liberal bully of the week Is … Obama’s gremlins

By Rusty Humphries

**FILE** Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2014. (Associated Press)

ISTOOK: Quit wasting time — The House should arrest Lois Lerner until she testifies

By Ernest Istook

Rose Mary Woods

EDITORIAL: IRS: ‘The dog ate the emails’

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

SEKULOW & CLARK: The IRS targeting scandal’s smoking gun

By Jordan Sekulow and Matthew Clark

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, file photo, then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. The House is preparing to vote May 7, on holding Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a pair of committee hearings about her role in the agency's tea party controversy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

KNIGHT: The IRS conspiracy killers in the news media

By Robert Knight

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, file photo, then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. The House is preparing to vote May 7, on holding Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a pair of committee hearings about her role in the agency's tea party controversy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

House votes to hold ex-IRS official in contempt

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

Columnist Ernest Istook says Congress, on its own, has clear authority to arrest and jail former IRS official Lois Lerner until she testifies. (Associated Press)

ISTOOK: Congress on its own can arrest and jail Lois Lerner until she testifies on IRS scandal

By Ernest Istook

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, left, holds up a copy of the Constitution as Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens at right as the panel debates whether to find former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for her previous refusal to answer questions at two hearings probing whether tea party and conservative political groups had been targeted for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, Thursday, April 10, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: More Lerner smoking-gun emails at IRS

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

ISTOOK: IRS “wants to throw us in jail,” says tea party leader

By Ernest Istook

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

PHILLIPS: Now is the time for an independent prosecutor

By Judson Phillips

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Lerner won’t face meaningful punishment

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on IRS abuses by Mark Weber/ Tribune Content Agency

KNIGHT: Collecting taxes and conservative scalps, IRS-style

By Robert Knight

** FILE ** In this Nov. 6, 2013, file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Rand Paul on former IRS official Lois Lerner: Choose — testify or jail

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Will Holder bring charges vs. Lois Lerner in IRS scandal?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

Eric Holder pressed for Lois Lerner interview details by Issa, Jordan

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Oct. 28, 2013, file photo, television infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau speaks to the media after leaving the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. On Monday, March 17, 2014, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced Trudeau to 10 years in prison for bilking consumers via infomercials for his best-selling weight loss book. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Michael Jarecki)

HUMPHRIES: ObamaCare, Lois Lerner or Kevin Trudeau — what’s more dangerous?

By Rusty Humphries

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, leaves as the committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., left, begins his statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the committee's hearing where former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

House votes down resolution to force Issa to apologize

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Lois Lerner’s dilemma

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former IRS official refuses to testify at hearing

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press