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Watch: Former IRS official struggles to remember who she worked with:
The Blaze ^ | June 25 2014 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 06/25/2014 1:28:21 PM PDT by PoloSec

Jennifer O’Connor, a former IRS attorney who now works in the White House, struggled on Tuesday to remember the names of her former IRS colleagues before a House oversight hearing.

O’Connor, now in the Office of White House Counsel, testified in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on what she knew about efforts to gather together emails that Republicans are seeking as they investigate the IRS’ targeting scandal.

But in one conversation with Rep. (R-Utah), O’Connor had trouble remembering who she dealt with at all during her six months at the IRS. Chaffetz started by asking who she worked with and who reported to her.

“One of the things that I did was to work with a team that was fairly small at that time, but got very large later,” she said.

“Who was on that team?” Chaffetz asked.

“It’s a whole number of IRS people and it changed,” she replied. When pressed by Chaffetz, she suggested, “I think the best way to get you accurate information on that would be to ask the IRS.”

Chaffetz pressed again for O’Connor to list who she interacted with. O’Connor named a few people she reported to, which prompted Chaffetz to ask who reported to her.

“Um…” she began. After more prodding, she eventually replied:

“There is somebody who’s name was… I can’t even remember his last name. I think his first name may have been Ben.”

“So a guy named Ben,” Chaffetz said. “A dude named Ben.”

Later, she said she talked with Ken Corbin, who replaced Lois Lerner as the head of tax-exempt organizations at the IRS. But she couldn’t come up with any others.

“You’re a very bright person,” he said. “You’re very bright, you’re a very personable person. Why are you being so elusive?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chaffetz; irsteapartyscandal; jenniferoconnor; lerneremailshearing; whcounsel
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FULL TITLE: Watch: Former IRS official struggles to remember who she worked with: ‘I think his first name may have been Ben’
1 posted on 06/25/2014 1:28:21 PM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

Right, Ben Dover...


2 posted on 06/25/2014 1:35:59 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PoloSec
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Because if she told the truth, it would blow the case wide open? And then she'd be under the Obamabus?

3 posted on 06/25/2014 1:37:10 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: PoloSec

All bark and no bite. Lots of cheap political theater of no consequence.

If I was a Dem, I would have no fear of this circus. Its all posturing and grandstanding. The Dems know the GOP is a complete farse and isn’t going to do a damn thing about it.


4 posted on 06/25/2014 1:37:28 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: PoloSec

What’s the point to all this? I watch Darrel Issa on television last evening all but admit, they can investigate, but in the end, the DOJ will do nothing.

End of story. Nada


5 posted on 06/25/2014 1:37:40 PM PDT by servantboy777
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6 posted on 06/25/2014 1:37:49 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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To: PoloSec
Why so elusive?... Her job was on the line..
Honesty is a vice in the Executive branch..

What is a virtue?... Lies, Obfuscation, Snark, treason...

7 posted on 06/25/2014 1:37:53 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Trying that again...

“You’re a very bright person,” he said. “You’re very bright, you’re a very personable person. Why are you being so elusive?

Because if she told the truth, it would blow the case wide open? And then she'd be under the Obamabus?

8 posted on 06/25/2014 1:38:04 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: PoloSec

Just plain wow.

That woman was going to answer “I don’t know nuthin and nobody told me nuthin” to everything.

I grew up in Chicago hearing that phrase every day as a punchline.


9 posted on 06/25/2014 1:38:50 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Alas Babylon!
At least tell us who she is...


10 posted on 06/25/2014 1:40:57 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: PoloSec

She doesn’t deal with people. She deals with numbers and power.


11 posted on 06/25/2014 1:42:39 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: PoloSec
"a former IRS attorney who now works in the White House"

Typical, isn't it. Obama knows how to keep the hardcore criminals on his leash to prevent them from becoming whistle blowers.

12 posted on 06/25/2014 1:44:19 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: tet68

Mike Hunt


13 posted on 06/25/2014 1:45:23 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Because if she told the truth, it would blow the case wide open?

No. Because if she told the truth, the truth was that she did nothing to gather the emails.

She couldn't remember the names because there were no names to remember.

-PJ

14 posted on 06/25/2014 1:45:34 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: PoloSec
Ben Rhodes? CONGRESS NEEDS TO START PRESSING THESE ELUSIVE CRIMINALS UNTIL THEY ANSWER THE FRIGGIN' QUESTION, AND YES WE HAVE ALL DAY.

Did you get an answer, Chaffetz? Don't stop until you DO, damnit!!! DON'T LET THEM SKATE AND SLITHER WITHOUT ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS!!!!!! HILLARY DOES THIS, ALL THE DEMS DO THIS. NO MORE BS. STOP THE BS.

15 posted on 06/25/2014 1:48:03 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: PoloSec

So has Arkansas Amnesia spread to Chicago? I suspect so,because this dame’s behavior is right out of pages 88-154 of Rules For Radicals.


16 posted on 06/25/2014 1:48:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: PoloSec
“You’re a very bright person,” he said. “You’re very bright, you’re a very personable person. Why are you being so elusive?

Because of a nasty head injury I'd guess.Osama Obama's people seem to be the clumsiest people on earth.No wonder Osama himself has made reference to the Special Olympics.

17 posted on 06/25/2014 1:52:44 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: PoloSec

I’m getting pretty sick of all of these liars.


18 posted on 06/25/2014 1:55:53 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: PoloSec; Chode; SgtBob

But we are supposed to remember EVERYTHING we did with EVERY penny for the last 7 years AND keep paper records of it.

F them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOCK THEM ALL UP UNTIL THEY SPILL THE BEANS.

Bread & water for food and poison ivy/oak/sumac for TP.

NO medical help.


19 posted on 06/25/2014 2:01:09 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: PoloSec

20 posted on 06/25/2014 2:01:42 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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