President Obama has had a busy week countering reports of poor decisions that led to the death of a U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack last September, overreach and seizure of Associated Press phone records, and possible criminal charges against the IRS for political targeting of conservative organizations.

More than 100 emails concerning the Benghazi attack that killed a U.S. ambassador and three others in Sptember were released by the Obama administration on Wednesday. The emails contain what the adminstration was saying about the attacks in the days following the incident in Libya.

Republican lawmakers have been calling for a release of the communications from the administration that molded the talking points used by U.N Ambassador Susan Rice following the attack. Republicans have said that the administration had conducted a massive cover-up prior to the elections in 2012.

Those newly released emails show that a vast majority of the alterations to the talking points came from the CIA and the FBI, and should soften conspiracy theories surrounding the aftermath of the attack.

It was also revealed at the first of the week, that the Justice Department had secretly obtained two months worth of phone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press. Records for at least 20 phone lines were collected for the months of April and May of 2012.

AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday and demanded the return of the records and the destruction of all copies the department retained.

The Justice Department defended the seizure of the records saying that the records were sought in connection with the leaked information on a foiled terrorist plot in May of 2012 in Yemen where an airplane headed to the United States was targeted by al-Qaeda.

The White House said on Monday that it had no idea that the phone records had been sought by the Justice Department. White House Press Secretary said on Monday night, “Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP. We are not involved in decisions made in connection with criminal investigations, as those matters are handled independently by the Justice Department. Any questions about an ongoing criminal investigation should be directed to the Department of Justice.”

The Obama administration has since called for strengthening protections for journalists and their confidential sources, and has asked lawmakers to pass a Media Shield Law.

After a tough Monday, on Tuesday, the Inspector General released a report that found ineffective management and improper scrutiny of Tea Party Tax Exemption applications. The report stated that the conduct has been on-going for at least 18 months. GOP lawmakers grabbed at the report and immediately began a political uproar.

California GOP Representative Tom McClintock said today that there was reason to believe that the IRS leaked GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax history to Senate Majority Leadeer Harry Reid prior to the 2012 elections. McClintock noted in a speech on the floor of congress that Reid had suggested he had informmation on Romney’s tax records.

“During the campaign, Austan Goolsbee and Harry Reid referenced confidential tax information from Charles and David Koch and Mitt Romney, only to back off when they were pressed for their sources,” McClintock said.

Speaker of the House GOP Representative John Boehner said that he wants to know who is going to jail in the IRS probe. He suggested that the wrong-doing went beyond low-level employees in the IRS. Two of those employees in Cincinnati have been terminated from their jobs in connection with the case.

The IRS had said that no high-level employees were involved in this latest scandal and apologised on Friday for what it called inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups. They reported that they began targeting groups with “Tea Party,” “Patriots,” and “9/12 Project” in their applications. The IRS said that the improprieties were confined to the Cincinnati office.

Attorney General Eric Holder says that the FBI has opened a case on the possible wrong-doings and that they will look into whether any criminal action took place, taking the scandal to an entirely different level.

Yesterday, President Obama instructed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to ask for and to recieve the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller.

In a quickly scheduled televised statement, President Obama announced that resignation and called the conduct “inexcusable,” and added, “I’ve reviewed the Treasury Department watchdog’s report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives.”