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Reported that the government was not just demanding that reporters reveal their confidential sources and threatening to put them in jail if they did not, they were secretly going through journalist phone records trying to figure out journalist sources that way. according to a senior federal law enforcement official the incoming and outgoing numbers were being monitored by the government as part of a widespread leak investigation. the title of that article was "federal source to abc news, we know who you're calling." it's chilling, right? i mean, you're a report. you are trying to find out what...

Finally get the inspector general's report that purports to explain what happened. we're still combing through all of the details, but one of the things this report seems to address is the question of whose big idea this was anyway. according to the report released tonight, quote, officials stated that the criteria were not influenced by any individual or organization outside the irs. within the last hour, president obama has released a statement calling the report's findings, quote, intolerable and inexcusable. he said he has directed his treasury secretary jack lew to hold those who are resp...