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The attorney for former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner says his client will continue to assert her rights not to testify about the IRS targeting of conservative groups. (Associated Press)

Lawyer for IRS official denies Issa claim client will testify

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

IRS employee Lois G. Lerner testified in May for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, where she asserted her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination and proclaimed her innocence. (Associated Press)

Lois Lerner to testify Wednesday on IRS targeting of tea party groups

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Using the IRS to disarm Tea Party and other political enemies

By Robert Knight

Sarah Hall Ingram, director of the Affordable Care Act Office at the Internal Revenue Service, told a House committee Wednesday that she was "not conscious of ever sharing 6103 data information at the White House." She said the agency is keeping Obamacare applicants' information private. She also said she had "no recollection" of hearing about IRS targeting of conservatives. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Republicans say Obamacare official leaked IRS data

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KENNEALLY: A shortcut from impunity to immunity

By Ivan Kenneally

Illustration: Tea Party neck tie by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

FEULNER: Targeting the Tea Party

By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times

Congress still has questions for Lisa P. Jackson, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who is under investigation for suspected violations of federal sunshine laws after she apparently used private email accounts to conduct government business. (Associated Press)

Sunshine law gets cloudy when federal officials take email home

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, discusses a plan July 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill to move mail to cluster box and curbside delivery in a move to cut costs at the cash-strapped Postal Service by up to $4.5 billion a year. With the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, the tradition of mail delivery to the door could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal in Congress. At left is the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. (Associated Press)

House investigating FEC and IRS communications over tax exempt groups

By Seth McLaughlin and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** J. Russell George is the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration. (Associated Press)

IRS IG: Audit never labeled groups ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

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)

IRS officials in Washington ordered special scrutiny: congressional investigation finds

By David Sherfinski and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration: IRS shakedown by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

KNIGHT: The IRS scandal’s inconvenient facts

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

Then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 22, 2013, 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. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

IRS’s Lerner will testify if granted immunity: attorney

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 22, 2013, 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. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

House committee: IRS official waived rights in denying wrongdoing

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 22, 2013, 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. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Rep. Darrell Issa: IRS’ Lois Lerner waived Fifth Amendment rights

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat and ranking member on the House Budget Committee, speaks about the budget at the 2013 Fiscal Summit in Washington on May 7, 2013. (Associated Press)

DEAN: A Democrat’s IRS about-face

By Warren L. Dean Jr.

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

PATTERSON AND TAVLAS: The IRS benchmark of the double standard

By Matt Patterson and Julia Tavlas

Illustration: Rubber stamp by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Rubber-stamp government

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Danny Werfel (left), the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General, appear before the House Appropriations Oversight Committee on the IRS in Washington on June 3, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

IRS acting chief Danny Werfel vows to fix ‘trust’ in agency

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This undated image released Thursday, May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defence, shows Lee Rigby known as "Riggers" to his friends, who is identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London on Wednesday. He was a drummer with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers." (AP Photo/MOD)

The Wrap: From Code Pink halting Obama’s speech to the Vatican’s denied exorcism, the week that was

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