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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)

House lawyer: IRS’s Lerner can be held in contempt

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing probing whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the government&#8217;s tax agency. Earlier this month, IRS official Lois Lerner was called to testify about the controversy but refused to answer questions by committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights at least nine times. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IRS stonewalls probe of tea party targeting emails

By Stephen Dinan - 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)

House panel report concludes that Lerner lied to Congress on IRS targeting

By Stephen Dinan and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Former IRS official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2014, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the the agency's targeting of tea party groups, where she invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (Associated Press)

IRS to turn over Lerner emails in tea party targeting probe

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Democrats’ bid to censure Rep. Darrell Issa fails

The Washington Times

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell E. Issa prepares to leave as ranking member Rep. Elijah E. Cummings begins his statement Wednesday at a hearing at which former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (associated press)

House defeats Democrats’ attempt to rebuke Issa

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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)

House GOP considers contempt of Congress charge for Lerner

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell E. Issa prepares to leave as ranking member Rep. Elijah E. Cummings begins his statement Wednesday at a hearing at which former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (associated press)

House GOP considers contempt of Congress charge for Lerner

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)

House Republicans recall Lois Lerner to explain IRS targeting: panel will compel testimony

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he has selected a new acting head of the division, staying within the IRS to find new leadership. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IRS email reveals Lerner’s role in tax rule to restrain nonprofits

By Stephen Dinan - 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 **

Lois Lerner, IRS official in tea party scandal, forced out for ‘neglect of duties’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Acting Internal Revenue Service chief Danny Werfel. (Associated Press)

IRS spied on tea party after granting tax-exempt status

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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The Wrap: From Lois Lerner’s incriminating emails to eagle-killing wind farms, the week that was

The Washington Times

Lois Lerner, head of the Internal Revenue Service unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status, was put on administrative leave after she declared her innocence but refused to answer congressional questions about the targeting. (Associated Press)

Emails show IRS’ Lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Tea party supporter William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., protests President Obama's health care law outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Tea party targeted: Senior IRS bosses knew conservative groups under scrutiny as early as 2011

By Stephen Ohlemacher - Associated Press