Scandal Roundup

Here are the latest takes on the three Obamagate scandals:
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the Associated Press phone records scandal: “The president is a strong defender of the First Amendment ... (and a) firm believer” in freedom of the press. On the IRS scandal: no comment.
Attorney General Eric Holder on the leak to the AP on a CIA operation targeting al-Qaeda: “It put the American people at risk.” Holder insists he recused himself from the leak investigation “to make sure (it) was seen as independent.”
CNN: “Poor management and lax oversight at the Internal Revenue Service allowed for the targeting of ‘Tea Party’ and related groups, resulting in lengthy delays in the processing of their applications for federal tax exempt status, according to a report from the agency’s inspector general.”
Washington Post: “(IRS) officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed.”
Breitbart.com: “The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups.”
Washington Post’s Fact Checker: Obama’s claim that he called the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans an “act of terrorism” gets “four Pinocchios.”