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FTA " (CBS News) WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups.
Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS.
The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.
It's the first evidence that someone within the Obama administration knew about the practice during the presidential campaign. "
This is from some obscure organization calling themselves CBS; not normally associated with much beyond showbusiness.
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The Obama administration’s sudden plunge into scandal territory has two aspects — the actual and the political.
The first, and most important, has to do with what actually happened. Why did the administration promulgate a false account of the terror attack on Benghazi? Why did the Internal Revenue Service target conservative groups for special scrutiny? Why did the Justice Department act in an unprecedented fashion toward The Associated Press for publishing details of a foiled terror plot the White House was planning to discuss openly the next day?
Louisiana governor uses speech to Virginia Republicans to say Barack Obama 'bears responsibility' as scandals continue
Republican party is seeking to squeeze every inch of political capital from the issue
Reports had emerged that some IRS officials may have singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny
Jindal is thought to be aiming to be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016
FTA. "Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming that this is nothing but partisan politics.
Let the facts speak for themselves. They are damning enough. Let Gregory Hicks, the honorable, apolitical second-in-command that night in Libya, movingly and grippingly demolish the president’s Benghazi mantra that “what I have always tried to do is just get all the facts” and “every piece of information that we got, as we got it, we laid it out for the American people.” "
The IRS scandal broke wide-open before a key House subcommittee. But the real IRS scandal is the tax code, not its selective application.
FTA " How big of a wake-up call are the Obama scandals, especially the ones surrounding the seizing of phone records from the Associated Press and the IRS's targeting of conservatives? So big that two of the media's most shameful and shameless gun control advocates -- Joe Scarborough and Piers Morgan -- have finally conceded that arguments made by pro-Second Amendment activists against the expanding of background checks might not be so ridiculous. "
Two high minded 'moderates' eat a bit of crow. I suspect they knew full well their anti gun stances and rhetoric favored tyranny. I suspect this mea culpas will be forgotten within a news cycle or two.
