A reality check on the Benghazi and IRS investigations

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Guests:  Jonathan Landay and Jodi Schneider

It’s been a rough couple of days for President Obama when it comes to scandal, crisis and politics. On Wednesday, the White House tried to quell criticism over how it responded to the deadly attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi by releasing over 100 pages of emails between administration officials in the days following the event. The correspondence shows an intense debate between the CIA and State Department over what to tell the public in a set of “talking points” which the President’s critics say were drafted with politics in mind. Also on Wednesday, the President fired the acting chief of the Internal Revenue Service after revelations that it had specifically targeted conservative groups with the words “tea party or “patriot” in their names. Hearings on the matter begin this morning. In this hour of Radio Times, we get a reality check on how the Administration has handled the attacks in Benghazi and the IRS’s treatment of conservative political organizations. First we’ll hear from JONATHAN LANDAY, senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers. Then we’ll talk to JODI SCHNEIDER, team leader in charge of tax policy and Congressional coverage for Bloomberg News, working from the Washington, D.C. Bureau.

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