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Early in this morning’s IRS hearing, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., warned against turning the IRS hearings into a partisan affair. Immediately afterward, Rep. Steve Lynch, D-Mass., obliged him, delivering one of the most scathing speeches about the agency in the entire hearing...comparing the IRS’s treatment of conservative non-profit applicants to the behavior of foreign regimes notorious for their human rights abuses...

Carol had it right last week: Benghazi is back -- much to the chagrin of the White House, I'm sure. To set the table for Wednesday's hearings, here's what we've learned over the last few days: (1) Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was directly involved in the 9/11/12 raid that killed four Americans, including our Ambassador to Libya. Leaders in Washington knew the Benghazi massacre was a terrorist operation "almost immediately," and officials on the ground suspected as much "from the get-go." The administration misleadingly denied and downplayed the terrorist connection for weeks. (2) A special ops officer...

Congressional Democrats on Sunday distanced themselves from the Obama administration’s explanation of the Benghazi, Libya, attacks in the immediate aftermath of the fatal strikes, amid mounting evidence that suggests the information was revised to intentionally mislead Americans. The original explanation of the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, was written by CIA officials, then revised by State Department and White House officials, according to news reports and witness testimony made available to Fox News. Removed from the CIA's so-called talking points were references to “Islamic extremists” and Al Qaeda in Libya And five days later,...