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Friday's hearing was only the beginning of congressional scrutiny over the IRS' actions, targeting conservative groups seeking tax exempt status.
Next week, the head of the department that approves tax exempt status, Lois Lerner, will testify before the House Oversight Committee. It appears she knew about the targeting almost from the beginning in 2010. But who else knew?
CNN's Erin McPike has the story, in the video above.
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Now the IRS knows what it's like to be on the business end of an audit. It was a withering appearance Friday before the House Ways and Means committee by Steven Miller, who walked the plank this week as soon-to-be-former acting director of the IRS.
Check out our wrap of the hearing in the video above.
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The Witness Protection Program has always loomed large in the public imagination, usually depicted as a haven for turncoat mobsters.
But who really lives within the protected realm of the program? The public does not know for sure, and that's sort of the point.
According the U.S. marshals, the agency that runs the program, more than 18,000 men, women, and children have been in witness protection, and the marshals like to brag that not one of them has ever been harmed.
The marshals also say the program provides 24-hour protection to all witnesses while they are in a "high-threat environment," witnesses receive financial assistance for housing and subsistence for basic living expenses and medical care, and the program provides for job training and employment assistance.
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Two individuals identified as "known or suspected terrorists" entered the Justice Department's Witness Protection Program and then the U.S. Marshals lost track of them, according to the public summary of an interim Justice Department inspector general’s report obtained by CNN.
The Marshals Service concluded that “one individual was and the other individual was believed to be residing outside of the United States,” according to the summary.
A Justice Department official said in response to follow up questions about the matter by reporters that the pair had left the program years ago and had been accounted for.
It was not clear when or for how long the Marshals Service lost track of them.
The very fact that there are known terrorists in witness protection may be concerning to some Americans.
"There are big terrorists, and what you may call sort of small-fish terrorists," said Juliette Kayyem, a former Department of Homeland Security official and a CNN analyst.
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This report has been updated.
By Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent
The U.S. Marshals Service lost two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program “identified as known or suspected terrorists,” according to the public summary of an interim Justice Department Inspector General’s report obtained by CNN.
The Marshals Service has concluded that “one individual was and the other individual was believed to be residing outside of the United States,” according to the summary.
A Justice Department official said in response to follow up questions about the matter by reporters that the pair had left the program years ago and had been accounted for.
It was not clear when or for how long the Marshals Service lost track of them.
The report notes that while in the middle of an audit of the WITSEC program, also referred to as "WitSec," the IG notified the Justice Department of national security vulnerabilities, and the IG’s office “developed the interim report to help ensure that the Department promptly and sufficiently addressed the deficiencies we found.”
After its audit, the IG’s office reported “the department did not definitively know how many known or suspected terrorists were admitted into the WITSEC program,” among other “significant issues concerning national security.”
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