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Filed in: Free Speech | by Matthew Clark | 11:52 AM May. 23, 2013
IRS Obfuscating the Truth About Targeting
A week ago, President Obama demanded the IRS cooperate with Congress as it investigates the agency’s intentional targeting of conservative groups. He assured the American people, “[W]e will work with Congress as it performs its oversight role. And our administration has to make sure that we are working hand in hand with Congress to get this thing fixed.” Apparently the IRS didn’t get the memo. It nonchalantly continues to treat this as an unfortunate incidence of poor ma... Continue Reading
IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George
Outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George attend a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service … more
Filed in: Free Speech | by Jay Sekulow | 2:03 PM May. 10, 2013
IRS Admits to What We Already Knew: Tea Party Groups Inappropriately Singled-Out for Special Review
What the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did to Tea Party groups is simply outrageous. We've been battling the IRS for more than a year now, defending nearly 30 Tea Party organizations across the country - organizations that were targeted by the IRS because of their conservative views. What's outrageous is that the IRS demanded that groups reveal the internal workings of their organizations - including the identification of members, how they are selected, who they associate with, and even what t... Continue Reading
Filed in: War on Terror | by Matthew Clark | 3:21 PM Mar. 27, 2013
The Road to Peace Cannot be Paved by Funding Terrorists
The Obama Administration has embarked down a dangerous road of “sequester-era stimulus for radical foreign governments.” The Administration is sending a half a billion dollars to the terrorist-led Palestinian Authority, $250 million to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood led government, and shipments of some of our most powerful and sophisticated weaponry of war to that same anti-Israel Egyptian government. All of this taxpayer funding of radical regimes has been over the strong objec... Continue Reading
Filed in: Iran | by Jordan Sekulow | 8:37 PM Mar. 20, 2013
Members of Congress: State Department “Misled” Congress on Pastor Saeed Hearing – Calls on Secretary Kerry to Issue Public Statement Demanding His Release
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Members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and other members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry today demanding that he make the case of American Pastor Saeed Abedini – a U.S. citizen - a priority for the State Department. The Commission also called on Secretary Kerry to swiftly issue a public statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Pastor Abedini Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA) was joined by Representatives Trent... Continue Reading
Filed in: Iran | by Matthew Clark | 5:25 PM Mar. 18, 2013
Members of Congress Condemn State Department’s “Deafening and Almost Cowardly Silence”
At Friday’s congressional hearing Members of Congress scolded the State Department for its unwillingness to appear and testify on behalf of imprisoned U.S. citizen, Pastor Saeed Abedini. Each of the members of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission expressed concern about the State Department’s lack of involvement. Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA) derided the State Department’s utter lack of engagement and refusal to appear before the Commission. Congressman Trent Frank... Continue Reading
Filed in: Iran | by David French | 4:36 PM Mar. 15, 2013
State Department Press Releases for Spring Break, but not for Pastor Saeed?
As I type this post, my ACLJ colleagues are testifying before the U.S. House’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on behalf of Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith (we represent his family). Naghmeh Abedini, his wife, is also testifying. While Congress has demonstrated bipartisan concern for Pastor Saeed, the State Department’s lack of action is simply stunning. While State Department and White House spokespersons have called for his releas... Continue Reading
