Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?

The American Spectator ^ | 5/20/13 | Jeffrey Lord

[SC_Pete]

Can’t we do both?

[Labyrinthos]

Is anyobne else suddenly having problems accessing the American Spectator?

[monocle]

Does this imply that this union has/had the power to set policy?

[alancarp]

Well, at 11:18 on the morning of 3/31/2010, Obama was at Andrews AFB talking about 'Energy Security'. That afternoon, he signed something making it 'Cesar Chavez Day' (hence the ceremony - but that was with United Farm Workers leaders and Chavez' family members).

There was something called the 'Workplace Flexibility Forum' that is shown when you click on her entry for that date. At 1pm, the White House's Council of Economic Advisors issued something called 'The Economics of Workplace Flexibility' that undoubtedly involved union people - and probably was the over-arching reason for her visit on that day.

Yes - you're correct: we should do a better job than what The Left does in these matters. However, I don't believe in coincidence when it comes to this Administration, and while I'm doing this extra legwork to see if this American Spectator report sounds credible, you have to say that the timing is rather striking, to say the least.

[Candor7]

Colleen Kelly is obviously in the running to be a Helen Thomas replacement.

But her visits to the Obamafascistatroid at the WH are highly suspicious. I hope Issa nails her directly.

[Lakeshark]

I think it's implying the likelihood of a talking point (the TEA party is bad, must be audited) becoming a reality through collusion of the Bambi supporting union head of the IRS.

It's circumstantial, but looks bad.

[RoosterRedux]

Ping!

Already posted...very interesting article.

[Nervous Tick]

Helen Thomas, move over, you’ve got competition.

(and in both, the REAL ugliness lies in what is BEHIND the face)

[alancarp]

I'll throw in something else: see those WH visits on 12/1 and 12/3/2009? Please also note that Executive Order 13522 was issued on 12/9/2009 - a measure that gave federal employee unions much greater power within those agencies... and shielded all conversations had between union bosses (like Kelley) and the respective agencies.

There's more about this and the possible (likely?) connection to the IRS scandal at this site.

I don't even think now that this was quid-pro-quo... it's starting to look a lot more like a systematic plan.

[wiggen]

You’re welcome. Exactly what i was attempting to save myself from.

[Jack of all Trades]

I just hit the link and also the home page, and it seems to be down.

[Colonel_Flagg]

If you sign in to the visitors’ log, do you not also sign out? Seems to me the proof in the pudding might be there. If there were 100 guests you’d think most of them would have left at the same time.

[Jack of all Trades]

Are they saying that Colleen Kelley was the new Acting Manager, Technical Unit?

[alancarp]

Fair point - unfortunately, that info is not being made public.

[wiggen]

All i can access is sign in.

[Seattle Conservative]

In my search on bing.com, I couldn’t find anything on Margaret, Beth, Meg, Maggie, etc. in the WH. I did find a Rick Weiss.

In doing a search for Weiss on the WH page, I found this, but so far haven’t seen any Margaret Weiss’: http://search.whitehouse.gov/search?affiliate=wh&query=weiss&form_id=usasearch_box&submit.x=53&submit.y=17

Here’s a search on the WH page for Margaret http://search.whitehouse.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=margaret&m=&affiliate=wh&commit=Search

I’ve only had a chance to glance at the 1st page on each, but so far, I don’t see a Margaret Weiss. Curious that nothing is coming up on bing.com or the WH page (I did see a couple listings for Margaret Weiss in Washington DC in the White pages link from bing).

Here’s the report from 2009 of WH staff (no Margaret or Weiss listed):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/July1Report-Draft12.pdf

Here’s the report from 2010 of WH staff (haven’t searched it):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2010

Sorry, no time for more research right now

[Graewoulf]

Not a chance that B. Hussein will agree to ANY investigation of himself.

Here is why:

The key to understanding Obamaspeak is to understand that Obama is self-delusional.

Obama truly believes that reality can be created just by him saying so.

I call these statements Obamalies.

Hence, when Obama wants something to be true, all he has to do is say the words and reality will be created around them.

In this manner Obama is capable of protecting himself from REALITY that you and I recognize, but is unrecognizable to Obama.

[alancarp]

You gotta love it - here's a statement heading that staff report you linked: "Consistent with President Obama's commitment to transparency, this report is being publicly disclosed on our website as it is transmitted to Congress."

...except, of course, that there is No One with the surname "Weiss" listed among White House staff members present on Any of the staffing reports sent to Congress for the years 2009 through 2012. Whether that report 'lags' by a year or not, she should have been on at least one of those reports, you'd think.

Good link - thanks.

[alancarp]

Maybe 'Margaret Weiss' is a White House email/visitors alias. :D

[chessplayer]

This is not a smoking gun. Not unless there is an audio of obama actually ordering them to target the Tea Party. It’s like saying if person A gets a visit from person B, and the next day person B robs a bank, person A is guilty of bank robbery.