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Excellent Liz!

Live link for your WSJ article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

This date may become more significant:

“President Obama announced Friday [Oct 1, 2010] that his brash and hard-charging chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would resign effective immediately, marking the most significant departure to date from the president’s inner circle.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/01/rahm-expected-leave-white-house-chicago-mayor-run/
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Other dates for my own recollection but of possible interest to others:

As Liz documented with WSJ article above, Rahm was in control of Treasury by late Jan 2009.

Feb 19, 2009 -— CNBC’s Rick Santelli rant heard round the world
Called for a “Chicago Tea Party” Thursday, leading the charge for calls to revolt against the Obama Administration’s mortgage bailout plan....even the White House mentioned him directly in response to questions about the bailout — not once, not twice, but NINE times
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701

Feb 27, 2009 -— Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.

April 15, 2009 -— These protests were merely dress rehearsal for the Tea Party events planned for April 15, 2009: tax day. Few can agree on the number of events held throughout the country; the number ranges from 200 to 750, with total attendance ranging from about 250,000 to more than a half-million
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html

Spring/summer 2009 -— Town-hall meetings
Protests against the stimulus package, the bank bailouts, and health-care legislation continued throughout 2009.... During the summer, Tea Party protesters were criticized for their disruptive outbursts during meetings held by members of Congress in their home districts to discuss health-care reform.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/908cxoqy.asp

June 2009 -— James Rosen NK article

Fall 2009 -— WH attacks on Fox News escalates
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news/

Jan 19, 2010 -—The movement’s first major victory of the year occurred in January in Massachusetts—perhaps the bluest of the blue states—when Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the Senate race to fill the seat vacated after the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The ranks of Tea Party members grew in Congress throughout 2010.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html

Jan. 21, 2010: Citizens United -— The Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot limit corporation or union spending for or against political candidates in this Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

February 6, 2010: Some say that Sarah Palin assumed the role as #1 Tea Partier when she delivered the keynote address at the first Tea Party Convention in February 2010 in Nashville. Some 600 people attended the full convention, and another 500 sat in on Palin’s speech only.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html

In fact, Gallup poll in late March 2010 revealed that 28% of Americans have a positive perception of the Tea Party movement.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html

March 1, 2010: An IRS manager in Cincinnati, Ohio asks employees to begin searching for 501(c) tax exemption applications using the terms Tea Party, Patriots and 9/12 as their criteria.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/irs-targeting-scandal-timeline

May 2010 -— DOJ-—affidavit detailed the effort to get e-mails from the account of Fox News reporter James Rosen. He was not charged in the leak investigation although the document referred to him as a possible co-conspirator.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/03/doj-defends-holders-statement-on-leak-investigation/

Oct 1, 2010 -—”President Obama announced Friday that his brash and hard-charging chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would resign effective immediately, marking the most significant departure to date from the president’s inner circle.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/01/rahm-expected-leave-white-house-chicago-mayor-run/

October 26, 2010: Determinations Unit personnel emailed concerns about the additional review process for tea party applications to the Technical Unit. This individual follows up in November when response to concern about consistency yields no change.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584497/the-irs-targeting-controversy-a-timeline/