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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:01 GMT


US President Barack Obama’s administration has been hit with a number of scandals, as Washington struggles to put the pieces back together again, an analyst tells Press TV.

“I believe that this scandal involving the press freedoms and also the spying on Congressional members as well…is going to have a negative impact on the administration and particularly on the justice department,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, a political analyst from Detroit.

The comment came as Washington attempts to address the multiple scandals bracing the White House including the seizure of press phone records, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal and the Benghazi conspiracy - all under Obama’s watch.

On May 16, Obama defended the seizure of records of several home and cell phones of the Associated Press news agency and its journalists without prior notice.

Meanwhile, on May 14, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Justice Department opened a criminal probe of the IRS’ inappropriate scrutiny of tax-exemption requests by conservative groups.

The analyst criticized the US government for its long history of scandals, dating back to “at least until the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations during the late 1950s and early 1960s…and also under the Nixon administration.”

“This of course continued right through the Bush administration and of course now under the Obama administration, which had pledged that it would take a more equitable and fair approach not only to professional groups, but also to the public in general here in the United States. This of course has proven to be totally false,” said Azikiwe.

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