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White House counsel kept IRS probe results from Obama
Reuters ^ | May 20, 2013 | Kim Dixon and Roberta Rampton

Posted on 05/20/2013 8:19:36 PM PDT by neverdem

Two senior White House aides knew weeks ago that a probe of the Internal Revenue Service had found that the U.S. tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, but did not tell President Barack Obama, a White House spokesman said on Monday.

A Treasury Department official informed White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler on April 24 about the preliminary findings of a report that would fuel the latest in a series of scandals to confront Obama at the start of his second term.

The report was issued by a Treasury inspector general on May 14, four days after an IRS official had acknowledged, and apologized for, the agency's targeting of conservative groups with names such as "Tea Party" and "Patriots" that had applied for tax-exempt status.

Soon after learning of the report's preliminary findings, Ruemmler briefed White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and some other senior staff members, White House spokesman Jay Carney told a regular news briefing. Ruemmler chose not to inform Obama about the findings to avoid any appearance that he had any role in shaping the report - a role the president would not have taken anyway, Carney said.

As a result, said Carney, Obama did not learn of the findings until they were announced last week - as the president has himself stated.

Monday's disclosures revealed more about the inner workings of the White House than they did about the IRS scandal, which revolves around questions such as who imposed the inappropriate targeting by IRS employees in the agency's office in Cincinnati, Ohio, and whether IRS officials misled Congress last year about whether they knew that targeting was going on.

Answers to such questions could begin to emerge during congressional hearings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, in the Senate Finance Committee and House of Representatives Oversight...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: gettherope; impeachnow; irs; irsscaandal; loislerner
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1 posted on 05/20/2013 8:19:36 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Sounds like the Russians who said they wouldn’t be sent to the gulags if Uncle Joe Stalin knew what was actually going on.


2 posted on 05/20/2013 8:21:15 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: neverdem
Didn't tell his client of this crucial information? He's headed for disbarment in short order!



"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

3 posted on 05/20/2013 8:21:55 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: neverdem
What is this? The man in the White House is not supposed to be the last to know about stuff or somehow be out of the loop.

I don't believe it.

4 posted on 05/20/2013 8:22:43 PM PDT by Slyfox (The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
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To: neverdem

Do you waste your telling a 3 year old about important things?


5 posted on 05/20/2013 8:23:06 PM PDT by digger48
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To: neverdem

So the senior aides knew, but not Obama.

Yeah...sure.

That’s like believing Haldeman, Mitchell and Erlichman knew but didn’t tell Nixon


6 posted on 05/20/2013 8:23:24 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: neverdem

Total BS.


7 posted on 05/20/2013 8:23:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: neverdem
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8 posted on 05/20/2013 8:24:47 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: neverdem

Parsing.

This is to plant the meme he knew nothing. Says nothing about knowing about the issue, just the results of the probe.

But people don’t think it through.


9 posted on 05/20/2013 8:25:25 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: neverdem
So obammy will fire them for incompetence?
10 posted on 05/20/2013 8:25:32 PM PDT by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: neverdem
Where is that Obama bus graphic when you need it? Looks like those around him are prepared to take the fall like good little Commie fellow travelers.
11 posted on 05/20/2013 8:25:48 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: neverdem

The first thing I learned from my first boss, an old navy man “The captain is responsible to know what the first mate had for breakfast”. That was 40 years ago.

The captain is responsible for the ship and it’s well being, Obama


12 posted on 05/20/2013 8:26:33 PM PDT by llevrok (2013: - Obama vs America. The new cold war)
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To: Slyfox

Of course the claim is false, but once Obama said “I don’t know,” they have to find some way to make a lie sound more believable.


13 posted on 05/20/2013 8:26:35 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: neverdem

14 posted on 05/20/2013 8:27:13 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: neverdem

GS-14 and up, if you knew and didn’t report it, you go to jail.

“and up” includes all political appointees, not GS rated.

If that number exceed 100, then the big boss goes to jail for creating a culture where that would occur.


15 posted on 05/20/2013 8:27:24 PM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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To: neverdem

Anyone looking for any finger prints of his excellency telling anyone at the IRS, Dept of Justice, HHS, EPA or any other agency to do this or that to the tea party, republicans in general or any religious group will be wasting their time. This guy gives all his instructions through his non stop campaigning: he tells the “public” who are the villains and he ostracizes anyone who does not agree with him or voices any opposing point of view. That is the signal for all the shills in the government to go after them. 4-6 open scandals now, none of which according to his mouth piece had any genesis in the whitehouse..HA! Who targeted tea parties and others for extensive reviews before giving tax exempt status some low level employees in Cincinatti? HA. Who decided to go after the fast and furious whistleblower with demeaning slander, some US Attorney in Phoenix, Ha. Who decided to get the AP reporter phone records, some low level lackey in DOJ, HA! Who refused to send help to Benghazi some corporal in the communications center? HA! Who decided to wiretap a FOX NEWS reporter, some street FBI Agent, HA! Who decided to extort money from health insurance companies, some claims examiner in HHS? HA. No, all controlled either directly or indirectly by his excellency mostly using the campaign speech ploy.


16 posted on 05/20/2013 8:29:30 PM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: neverdem

Of course they told him. He was the one who initiated the program. The WH must think we are fools.


17 posted on 05/20/2013 8:29:30 PM PDT by kabar
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To: neverdem

B. S.

B. S. with a cherry on top.

B. S. with a berry on top and a side of fries.


18 posted on 05/20/2013 8:31:10 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: neverdem
The Boy King must be protected at all costs!
19 posted on 05/20/2013 8:33:21 PM PDT by entropy12 (Even tho Obama is now a lame duck, with 2014 House majority, he will be a dangerously socialist!)
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To: neverdem
Let's see: if this was the Bush White House and the "news" media found out that people there were keeping info from him, they would be saying:

1) Bush is detached, he doesn't know anything. He doesn't care.

2) His people are keeping things from him because they know he can't handle the job. He's just a figurehead, someone else is actually running the country.

So, "news" media, why isn't the same for your beloved selected boy-king, Zero Hussein?

20 posted on 05/20/2013 8:36:00 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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