I wonder if the hospital will have to sign the affidavit to the IRS under the penalty of perjury that the job layoffs had nothing to do with Obamacare?
Right. And then, just before the election, that affidavit is - as a result of a "computer glitch" - leaked to the Center for American Progress, and included in a TV ad slamming some Republican candidate who wants to toss ObamaCare.
After the election, a three-line story in the New York Times reports the result of the "internal investigation" into how the IRS came to leak a confidential document to an advocacy group. The investigation finds "no culpability," "no intent to violate privacy rules of the IRS," and "no conspiracy."
When Jay Carney is asked to amplify, he replies that "the findings of the internal investigation are clear, and the President sees no reason to comment further on the matter."