No story dominated coverage in D.C. this week like the House hearings on the IRS targeting of conservative groups did. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by California Republican Darell Issa, held three days of hearings. IRS officials came under blistering criticism from both Republicans and Democrats on the committee.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of this storm, invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify, but before she did insisted she had done nothing wrong: