Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice, said it was “very well possible” that the IRS’s targeting and harassment of conservatives and Tea Party groups impacted the 2012 presidential election between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Before ending the segment, Mitchell made sure to dismiss the notion that the pipeline would create jobs: “By the way, that report also says that only fifty permanent jobs. 3,900 temporary construction jobs, fifty permanent jobs. So this is gonna be debated.”
A Predator drone designed to catch terrorists in Afghanistan was used to track a recalcitrant North Dakota rancher and his sons accused of cattle thieving and monitor them to see when they were unarmed and alert the police in a case believed to be the first where an American citizen was arrested with the aid of a drone.
Sean Hannity held up his end of a bet by cooking dinner for ‘The Five.’
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a female Transportation Security Administration agent at Denver International Airport after a passenger complained the pat-down she received amounted to sexual assault.
The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.
Idaho Republican Rep. Raúl Labrador said Wednesday that President Obama deserves to win the “Lie of the Year” award again in 2014 for saying there wasn’t a “smidgen of corruption” at the Internal Revenue Service when conservatives were targeted.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii law school Monday that the nation’s highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II but that he wouldn’t be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict.
In a largely unreported story, a couple in Pennsylvania is facing charges that could land them in jail for nearly seven years. Their crime? Sending their five year old daughter to a public school outside of their school district.
Several influential conservative Republicans on Wednesday put House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders on notice that immigration reform legislation is dead because they don’t trust President Obama to honestly implement any new legislation they might pass.