Posted on 05/14/2013 10:32:47 PM PDT by grundle
Full title: Carney: White House notified of IRS targeting tea party ‘several weeks ago’; Obama: I found out Friday
White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Tuesday that the White House was notified about the IRS targeting tea party groups “several weeks ago.” This comes a day after President Obama said he found out about it from news reports on Friday of last week.
During a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, President Obama was asked about the IRS scandal. He responded, ”I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.”
However, Carney said Tuesday that first a report had to be compiled by the IRS’s inspector general and then when it was completed, it was passed on to the administration.
“A notification is appropriate and routine and that is what happened and that happened several weeks ago,” Carney said.
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Great work, thank you . I will pass along to a few people.
Should get Lawrence O’Donnell to do a voice-over for that.
Damn...and that is TWO YEARS old..?
If The perpetually clueless Obama can be President, then Homer Simpson can be the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
All these fancy leftist lawyers and every one of them completely disregarding the constitution.
Interesting dots there Maggie!
Just proves that Odingo is not as good as slick Willy. Clinton would never mixed up his lies like this, he was a sharp one, always kept his lies all in a row....
A Brief History of Slimy Dem Snoops and Dumpster Divers
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Jumpin’ Jivin’ Jay is 0bama’s beotch.
House and Senate aides said they were focusing on an Aug. 4, 2011, meeting in which the IRS’s chief counsel appears to have conferred with agency officials to discuss the activities of a team in the Cincinnati field office that had been subjecting applications for tax-exempt status from Tea Party and other conservative groups to a greater degree of review than those from other organizations.
Under IRS rules, the agency’s chief counsel, William J. Wilkins, reports to the Treasury Department’s general counsel, and investigators want to determine if Wilkins took the issue out of the independent IRS to other parts of the Obama administration.
March 28, 2009
President Obama Announces Additional Treasury Department Posts ...
George W. Madison, Nominee for General Counsel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-w-madison/gIQA5mkQMP_topic.html
The former Treasury counsel played a key role in the 2008 negotiations that led to the creation of the $700 billion financial bailout plan known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Now, the new Treasury counsel will oversee TARP’s implementation.
April 30, 2013
The U.S. Treasury Department has its first Senate-confirmed general counsel since George Madison stepped down last summer.
The Senate unanimously approved acting Treasury General Counsel Christopher Meade for the post. Meade joined the Treasury Department as principal deputy general counsel in March 2010, becoming acting general counsel in June. The Senate voted April 25 on Meade’s nomination.
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Before coming to the Treasury Department, Meade was a New York-based partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, working in the firm’s litigation and securities departments, as well as its appellate and Supreme Court litigation group.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/william-j-wilkins/gIQAwg0ZAP_topic.html
Role in Obama IRS Case
In February 2008 the IRS launched an investigation into a speech made by then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at Chicago's United Church of Christ. The IRS said the probe would determine whether the event was a violation of the rule that bars church participation in political campaigns.
The investigation was a serious matter for the church, as punishment for such an IRS violation can range from a hefty fine to a devastating revocation of tax-exemption status.
Obama’s speech, which he delivered months before announcing his presidential candidacy, focused on his personal journey in the Christian faith. United Church of Christ officials steadfastly defended their actions and said they took pains to make sure the event wasn't political.
After the IRS investigation was made public, the Washington, D.C., office of WilmerHale announced it would defend the United Church of Christ on a pro-bono basis. Wilkins and a colleague at the law firm were placed in charge of the high-profile case.
On May 13, 2008, the IRS closed the investigation into the speech with a formal letter declaring no laws were broken. The unusually quick resolution of the case was probably due, in part, to the skilled representation provided by Wilkins and others at WilmerHale.
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