Posted on 05/19/2013 7:12:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The White House's chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday.
That disclosure has prompted a debate over whether the president should have been notified at that time.
In the week of April 22, the Office of the White House Counsel and its head, Kathryn Ruemmler, were told by Treasury Department attorneys that an inspector general's report was nearing completion, the White House official said. In that conversation, Ms. Ruemmler learned that "a small number of line IRS employees had improperly scrutinized certain…organizations by using words like 'tea party' and 'patriot,' " the official said.
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I'm sure he was.
Impeach!!!
I no longer believe a single word that comes from either our government or the legacy media. Not one.
Naw, Obama’s too busy to be bothered with minutiae! Now, if they had some golf tips, or something worthwhile to impart....
Of course he knew
Worse than Watergate.
Don’t let Obama feed you a lines of BS he knows what’s going on.
So move on, nothing to see here, just more Republican bickering that Obama has no time for,
He's needs to get back to ‘the peoples business’... like more Obama-cares.
“Worse than Watergate.”
Someone better tell Bob Schieffer!
AP - Empty Chair
IRS - Empty Chair
Good call Clint!
Good ole pResident Know Nuttin. Always the last one to find out about anything important that goes on in the federal leviathan he allegedly runs.
Bullsquish.
Not only did Obama know about every one of these scandals as they were developing, he ordered and masterminded all of them.
I’m pretty sure it was Obama who told them to do this years ago, so the report shouldn’t be much of a surprise... more like a progress report if anything.
Ohomo’s response at the time: “Cool!”
Why tell Barry when Valerie was notified?
The trick is to prove he knew and catch him in the lie. But even then, would it accomplish anything? Would his fans turn on him for lying? Remember, lying is no big deal to Dems/libs unless it's a Repub caught doing the lying.
Is Obama’s IRS rapidly becoming a SELECTIVE Domestic Terrorist Organization against the Middle Class?
The WH has known for years because they devised the whole unconstitutional scheme.
Yup.
If his purple lips are moving, he’s lying. Obama knew full well about the IRS targeting of conservatives because his policies initiated this profiling. He and Hillary are the biggest liars on the planet. They claim to be highly intelligent, but they never know anything. People are starting to notice,
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