Posted on 05/21/2013 8:08:02 AM PDT by kristinn
AP:
A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative political groups.
The official said Monday that Treasury told the White House in late April about a possible speech in which IRS official Lois Lerner would make a public apology...
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WaPo:
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The Treasury Department was informed on three separate occasions that the IRS planned to disclose that it targeted conservative groups for scrutiny, and on one occasion, Treasury expressed concern about the nature of the disclosure, a Treasury official said on Monday night. In all cases, the official said, the department ultimately deferred to the IRS.
In late April, the IRS told Treasury that senior tax official Lois Lerner was considering making a speech in which she would publicly apologize for inappropriate conduct at the IRS in advance of an inspector report documenting how tax agency officials gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups.
“Treasury expressed some concern about the idea of a speech, but ultimately deferred to the IRS on that issue,” the Treasury official said Monday. Treasury officials also discussed the potential disclosure with the White House and said it planned to defer.
Later, Treasury was told ahead of time that Lerner would be asked a question about whether the IRS was screening conservative groups at an American Bar Association conference on May 10. “Treasury again deferred to the IRS on their interest in making a public apology,” the official said.
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Communications between the Treasury Department and the White House also have turned out to be broader than initially acknowledged. At one point, Mark Patterson, the Treasury chief of staff, talked about the timing of the report with Mark Childress, deputy White House chief of staff, according to a person familiar...
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This modified limited hangout was pushed last night in middle of the tornado to the AP and Washington Post.
AP says you are not the only one that get even Obama!
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Becuse they knew back on 3/31/2010 when Colleen Kelley visited Der Leader and they put together the plan.
In late April, the IRS told Treasury that senior tax official Lois Lerner was considering making a speech in which she would publicly apologize for inappropriate conduct at the IRS in advance of an inspector report documenting how tax agency officials gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups.
Steven Miller took responsibility for this in his senate testimony this morning. It was his idea that Lerner made this disclosure in her speech.
Thanks.
They have no choice but to support Obama's publicly announced comment to the effect that he "read about the IRS scandal in the papers at the same time everyone else did". Of course he's lying. But when you tell one lie it spawns a thousand others.
Why? So they can the focus OFF Benghazi.
Communications between the Treasury Department and the White House also have turned out to be broader than initially acknowledged.
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One thing you can count on in the government: it is a CYA environment to the max; bureaucrats are very proactive in this regard. They discuss all angles and prepare their defenses against any and all forms of potentially negative news. That’s the very essence of bureaucracy. Nobody is willing to take the blame for anything, and they hate surprises. In this particular case, with a destructive storm looming on the horizon, there had to be weeks of meetings to prepare for when it made landfall.
when Colleen Kelley visited Der Leader and they put together the plan
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They must be frantic to cover this up. Unfortunately for them, there’s such a thing as back ups of electronic files. Somebody better freeze those files.
You can bet the list of scapegoats is already being lined up. The White House is desperate to establish a fire break but there are so many fires out there its going to hard to contain.
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There is nothing to worry about containing. It will all come out eventually but no one will care. The press love the man and will talk about his mistakes in an understanding tone. They will say he is so great that under the circumstances of trying to hold the country together and putting us on the right track he had to do what he did. Yes it was illegal but the ends justified the means. It will all go away.
There is no person in any media that will give the first black president a hard way to go. You might as well get over it. It's just the way it is. Travon Martin was a usless thug. The press knows all about it but they painted him as an angel. They know! They lie! It's what they do.
Let’s hope that we get to the bottom of this and it leads to the top of the food chain.
I can’t disagree with you. The fix is in.
What triggered IRS to come clean from carrying out THE FOREIGNERS target orders. Maybe they knew they were going to get exposed from a lawsuit?
So they timed it to distract from Benghazi, thinking it would be a minor scandal and not be recognized for the impeachment level activity that it was.
“inappropriate” ... “extra scrutiny”
No, Lois, it wasn’t “inappropriate”, it was corrupt, it was unlawful, it was committing election fraud.
And, no, Lois, it wasn’t “extra scrutiny”, it was a successful freezing out of conservative groups from the 2012 election cycle. NO, NONE, ZERO 501(c)4 applications were approved for conservative groups from Feb 2010 for 27 months following.
Lois, you’ve participated in a COUP. And, seriously, those involved should be hanged. It’s THAT SERIOUS.
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