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Republicans are still pressing the Obama administration to find missing emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner and six other IRS personnel, but the White House insists they are not recoverable. Furthermore, a White House spokesman said Wednesday that there were no emails ever exchanged between Lerner -- the former official at the heart of the sc stanley cup andal over the IRS s inappropriate targeting of political groups -- and President Obama s office. As the IRS said, I.T. professionals worked to restore Lerner s hard drive and were unable to do so, White House spokesman Jay Carney said. Nonetheless, the IRS has or will produce 24,000 Lerner emails from this 2009-2011 time period, largely from the files of the other 82 individuals... They are engaging in an effort to find e-mails in the absence of being able to restore the hard drive. GOP leader subpoenas IRS chief over missing emails IRS made good-faith effort on e-mails, White House saysHouse Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., requested Lerner s emails to and fr stanley water bottle om the White House, but Carney said, We found zero emails -- sorry to disappoint -- between Lois Lerner and anyone within the [Executive Office stanley mugs of the President] during this period. There were three emails where a third party emailed both Lerner and EOP officials, he said. One was a spam email and two others were from a person seeking tax assistance; all three have been turned over to Congress. Reqq Michelle Obama More Popular (And Less Disliked) Than Barack--An Amazing Rise
This story was stanley termoska written by Matt Gravens, The Daily ReveilleNow that the Democratic Party has finally found its presumptive nominee in Barack Obama, everyone is scrambling to see who the two vice presidential candidates will be. After a Memorial Day party at his home in Arizona, political analysts believe they know who is on the short list for John McCain s VP. Invitations were sent to Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. Huckabee and Pawlenty were unable to attend the gathering for personal reasons. The other three were available. Many speculate these men could potentially be McCain s running mate. But Jindal isn t ready yet. Don t get me wrong -- Jindal is great. He has done a lot in the 37 years he has been alive. He was a consultant, worked in both health and education on the state and f stanley cup ederal level and spent more time in Washington, D.C., than Obama. Jindal has also been governor for six month stanley quencher s. Jindal knows what he is doing, and he is doing it well. Under the guidance of Jindal, the Louisiana Legislature has already passed massive ethics reforms. Jindal has more work still to do here. He has an education plan that can make the education system better. The plan calls for tax breaks for parents who send their children to private school or
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General Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden s nominee to be defense secretary, testified Tu stanley cup website esday before the Se vaso stanley nate Armed Services Committee on the eve of Mr. Biden s inauguration. If confirmed by the Senate, Austin will be the first Black man to lead the Pentagon.Austin said Tuesday that he has confidence in the National Guard soldiers deployed to Washington, D.C., after two were removed from inauguration duty due to possible ties to extremism. Another 10 were removed due to red flags in their background checks that were unrelated to national security. I think the Secret Service is in charge of the overall effort, Austin said. I have every reason to believe they will do a very credible job and provide for our security. I have confidence in our Guard. The fact that we are screening people and making sure that we don t have the wrong kinds of people in the formation I t stanley cup hink is a credit to their efforts. Austin did not directly address the arrests of U.S. service members in connection to the assault on the Capitol in his opening remarks, but he did say, the job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks. He was questioned on the topic by Senator Richard Blumenthal, who has called for an investigation into white supremacy and extremism in the military. Austin related a personal story from his time in the 82nd Airborne Division, recal Bomd Hillary Trashes Rick
CBS From CBS News Joy Lin:BURLINGTON, IOWA ndash; I don t know how it s going stanley cup becher to turn out. I wouldn t try to predict, Mike Huckabee told a crowd of 175 today. I know over the past several days, there s been a lot of negative stuff thrown at us. Sometimes, you know, that gets you a little nervous. In a more hopeful tone, Huckabee added that if he wasn t catching flak, the stanley mugs n he wasn t over the target. Huckabee said about 250 to 300 volunteers who had arrived from all over the country to place 13,000 phone calls from the Des Moines office yesterday. Visibly tired, Huckabee struggled to keep up the energy at an 8:30am event. Huckabee arrived from Los Angeles at 1:30am last night - after taping The Tonight Show - and he was a guest stanley cup on The Early Show on CBS today. Over the past few months, we have enjoyed getting a wonderful opportunity to make friends here, said Huckabee at the beginning of his speech. It occurred to me as I was trying to sleep last night and not doing a very good job of it, that one of the saddest things about this evening is that it s going to be a while probably before we re back. We re going to be back because this fall, Iowa s going to be a battleground state. I m going to be the nominee and I m going to be in Iowa. Before Huckabee arrived, Newt Gingrich s spokesman Rick Tyler asked the audience for a show of hands on how many people planned to vote for him. Less than half the audience ndash; mos
Republicans are still pressing the Obama administration to find missing emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner and six other IRS personnel, but the White House insists they are not recoverable. Furthermore, a White House spokesman said Wednesday that there were no emails ever exchanged between Lerner -- the former official at the heart of the sc stanley cup andal over the IRS s inappropriate targeting of political groups -- and President Obama s office. As the IRS said, I.T. professionals worked to restore Lerner s hard drive and were unable to do so, White House spokesman Jay Carney said. Nonetheless, the IRS has or will produce 24,000 Lerner emails from this 2009-2011 time period, largely from the files of the other 82 individuals... They are engaging in an effort to find e-mails in the absence of being able to restore the hard drive. GOP leader subpoenas IRS chief over missing emails IRS made good-faith effort on e-mails, White House saysHouse Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., requested Lerner s emails to and fr stanley water bottle om the White House, but Carney said, We found zero emails -- sorry to disappoint -- between Lois Lerner and anyone within the [Executive Office stanley mugs of the President] during this period. There were three emails where a third party emailed both Lerner and EOP officials, he said. One was a spam email and two others were from a person seeking tax assistance; all three have been turned over to Congress. Reqq Michelle Obama More Popular (And Less Disliked) Than Barack--An Amazing Rise
This story was stanley termoska written by Matt Gravens, The Daily ReveilleNow that the Democratic Party has finally found its presumptive nominee in Barack Obama, everyone is scrambling to see who the two vice presidential candidates will be. After a Memorial Day party at his home in Arizona, political analysts believe they know who is on the short list for John McCain s VP. Invitations were sent to Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. Huckabee and Pawlenty were unable to attend the gathering for personal reasons. The other three were available. Many speculate these men could potentially be McCain s running mate. But Jindal isn t ready yet. Don t get me wrong -- Jindal is great. He has done a lot in the 37 years he has been alive. He was a consultant, worked in both health and education on the state and f stanley cup ederal level and spent more time in Washington, D.C., than Obama. Jindal has also been governor for six month stanley quencher s. Jindal knows what he is doing, and he is doing it well. Under the guidance of Jindal, the Louisiana Legislature has already passed massive ethics reforms. Jindal has more work still to do here. He has an education plan that can make the education system better. The plan calls for tax breaks for parents who send their children to private school or
Xefn Friday Cat Blogging - 9 November 2007
General Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden s nominee to be defense secretary, testified Tu stanley cup website esday before the Se vaso stanley nate Armed Services Committee on the eve of Mr. Biden s inauguration. If confirmed by the Senate, Austin will be the first Black man to lead the Pentagon.Austin said Tuesday that he has confidence in the National Guard soldiers deployed to Washington, D.C., after two were removed from inauguration duty due to possible ties to extremism. Another 10 were removed due to red flags in their background checks that were unrelated to national security. I think the Secret Service is in charge of the overall effort, Austin said. I have every reason to believe they will do a very credible job and provide for our security. I have confidence in our Guard. The fact that we are screening people and making sure that we don t have the wrong kinds of people in the formation I t stanley cup hink is a credit to their efforts. Austin did not directly address the arrests of U.S. service members in connection to the assault on the Capitol in his opening remarks, but he did say, the job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks. He was questioned on the topic by Senator Richard Blumenthal, who has called for an investigation into white supremacy and extremism in the military. Austin related a personal story from his time in the 82nd Airborne Division, recal Bomd Hillary Trashes Rick
CBS From CBS News Joy Lin:BURLINGTON, IOWA ndash; I don t know how it s going stanley cup becher to turn out. I wouldn t try to predict, Mike Huckabee told a crowd of 175 today. I know over the past several days, there s been a lot of negative stuff thrown at us. Sometimes, you know, that gets you a little nervous. In a more hopeful tone, Huckabee added that if he wasn t catching flak, the stanley mugs n he wasn t over the target. Huckabee said about 250 to 300 volunteers who had arrived from all over the country to place 13,000 phone calls from the Des Moines office yesterday. Visibly tired, Huckabee struggled to keep up the energy at an 8:30am event. Huckabee arrived from Los Angeles at 1:30am last night - after taping The Tonight Show - and he was a guest stanley cup on The Early Show on CBS today. Over the past few months, we have enjoyed getting a wonderful opportunity to make friends here, said Huckabee at the beginning of his speech. It occurred to me as I was trying to sleep last night and not doing a very good job of it, that one of the saddest things about this evening is that it s going to be a while probably before we re back. We re going to be back because this fall, Iowa s going to be a battleground state. I m going to be the nominee and I m going to be in Iowa. Before Huckabee arrived, Newt Gingrich s spokesman Rick Tyler asked the audience for a show of hands on how many people planned to vote for him. Less than half the audience ndash; mos