Skip to main content

Headline Roundup May 20th, 2013

Tea Party Responds to Scandal

Featured Coverage of this Story

Fact check rips IRS official over Tea Party targeting claims
Fact check rips IRS official over Tea Party targeting claims

Fox News Digital

News

A detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official's claim that the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonprofit applications, showing the practice started well before the forms started flooding in.
The piece in The Washington Post disputed a central claim that Lois Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, and other IRS officials made as they admitted to targeting conservative groups for additional scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status.

Open on Fox News Digital
IRS controversy revives tea party
IRS controversy revives tea party

CNN Digital

News

CNN's Jim Acosta reports on a tea party revival that's occurring in the wake of the recent controversy rocking the IRS.

Open on CNN Digital
Tea Party Looks To Gain Momentum In IRS Scandal Aftermath
Tea Party Looks To Gain Momentum In IRS Scandal Aftermath

HuffPost

News

Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.

They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny – a claim that tea party activists had made for years – is helping pump new energy into the coalition. And they are trying to use that development, along with the ongoing controversy over the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attacks and the Justice Department's secret seizure of journalists' phone records, to recruit new activists incensed...

Open on HuffPost

More headline roundups

More News about Politics on AllSides

News from the Left

News from the Center

News from the Right