Outside the Beltway

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.

Lt. General Michael Flynn is declining to comply with a Congressional subpoena regarding the Russia investigation, and invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment.

The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.

The House Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal will consider impeaching the I.R.S. Commissioner over issues that are, at beast, only tangentially related to the scandal itself.

The Department of Justice has informed Congress that its investigation has found no basis for criminal charges arising out of the targeting of conservative organizations by IRS officials evaluating applications for tax-exempt status.

The Justice Department will not pursue contempt charges against Lois Lerner because it has determined that she did not waive her rights under the Fifth Amendment.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.

The IRS’s claim that it lost some unknown number of Lois Lerner’s emails doesn’t really add up.

All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.

Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.

Fifth Amendment? They don’t need no Fifth Amendment, apparently.

Not surprisingly, Lois Lerner’s attorney is saying his client will only testify under a grant of immunity.

Lois Lerner is likely headed back to Congress over the largely phony charge that she waived her Fifth Amendment rights.

One Congressman apparently thinks that asserting your Constitutional rights should be grounds for losing a government job.

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

It’s a mistake to think of the Bill of Rights as only protecting people who are “innocent” or “guilty.” It exists to protect all of us.

Inside the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration investigation into the IRS scandal.

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.