Evidence Emerges That Obama Administration Official Knew of IRS Targeting During 2012 Campaign

CBS News ^ | May 18, 2013 | Margaret Brennan

[Liz]

BOMBSHELL.......Clinton factotum Lanny Davis is claiming that the White House Counsel knew of targeting (AKA suppressing the conservative vote) a couple of weeks BEFORE telling Ohaha. Does ANYONE believe for even a second that the White House Counsel wouldn’t tell Zero as soon as he heard about it?

We need to start getting traction on this soon....before the Ohaha mob uses their criminal Chicago political skills to skate on this.

They are the kingpins of political crime----they know every trick in the book.

Btw, tell me, again. What exactly does Valerie Jarrett do in the WH?

[Vermont Lt]

The guys I want to see before congress are the two rogue agents in Cincinatti. Then roll them up. Why do we have to endure these higher level idiots.

[AHerald]

0’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer is on the Sunday shows saying Issa knew about the targeting, before the elections, too. This should be easy to prove. Hopefully, it’s just more smoke coming out of their, er, fire.

I only saw Pfeiffer on Fox, and wasn't clear on what he was claiming Issa knew. Knowing there was an IG investigation into targeting claims isn't the same as knowing that conservatives were in fact being targeted. My guess is that's going to be the distinction with Issa.

Regardless, I'm not sure what the WH is trying to imply regarding Issa. He's not in charge of the IRS. He had long called for investigations into the targeting claims. If he had no first hand knowledge of targeting and was only aware of an investigation then he acted appropriately. It's to be expected that he had a heads up on an investigation because of his oversight authority. Lots of people knew there was an IG investigation into the targeting claims. Heck, Jack Lew said it was published on a govt. web site.

The White House claims specifically regarding the knowledge of the IG investigation (only informed a few weeks ago) strain credulity. We now know that senior Treasury officials and Obama's appointee to the Chief Counsel of the IRS all had knowledge of the targeting conservatives approximately 1-2 years before the IG investigation began. That this knowledge was not shared with the WH is hard to believe.

[Jane Long]

Agree completely. Like you said, Issa is not in charge of the IRS. Just more of their distraction/shell games.

[CottShop]

[[Well, I have reason to believe that the WH was involved]]

Me to- in fact I’m nearly 100% certain they did- however, provign it is antoher thign altogether

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

—— “We don’t have any reason to believe at this point that it was anybody outside the IRS directing them to do this,” -——

Still don’t even have the names of the “rogue agents.”

This investigation is a joke.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Well, I have reason to believe that the WH was involved. guilty until proven innocent.

Sure, that isn’t the way our law works, but what difference does it make now? The IRS treats everyone like they are guilty,so, turn about is fair play.

Guilty until proven innocent is the appropriate standard for judging politically. All those “negative liberties” such as the First Amendment presume that the government will be tempted to violate them. And the very standard of “innocent until proven guilty” can only be applied to defendants by presuming that the prosecutor is “guilty” (of wrongfully charging someone with a crime) until proven innocent.

And of course when Mr. Obama says “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon,” he is dissociating himself from Zimmerman - and creating a presumption that the prosecutor of a man who was originally deemed innocent by the police is currying favor with the highest-ranking personage in the country.