Posted on 05/15/2013 3:42:10 PM PDT by freedumb2003
Edited on 05/15/2013 5:28:09 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
President Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned in the wake of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted.
The president made the announcement in a brief statement at the White House, following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and other top department officials in which they reviewed a highly critical inspector generals report on the practice. The report concluded poor management allowed agents to improperly target Tea Party and other groups for more than 18 months, starting in 2010.
Obama said Lew asked for the resignation and Miller agreed, after being on the job since November 2012.
Americans have a right to be angry about it, and Im angry about it, Obama said from the White House.
Republicans, who along with Democrats have slammed the IRS for the practice, welcomed the resignation Wednesday but made clear they would continue to investigate and press for accountability.
Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., said the resignation "is a necessary first step but more heads need to roll."
Millers resignation was part of three-step plan Obama outlined to fix the problem.
The other steps are to put in place the safeguards recommended in the IG report and to work with Congress as it investigates.
The good news is we can fix this, Obama said.
Miller became acting commissioner after Commissioner Douglas Shulman completed his five-year term. Shulman had been appointed by President George W. Bush.
The president has proceeded cautiously since the IRS controversy was made public Friday. While he initially said the accusations were "outrageous," he also said he wanted to wait until the report was released before addressing what should be done to hold accountable those responsible.
Excerpt, read more at FoxNews/AP
I wonder what kind of a bonus and retirement package this guy got for being the fall guy and keeping the heat off of Obama and Hillary?
It will take 30 years of solid conservative leadership to rid the town of all the hard lefties that have been inserted into the bureaucracies there.
What's the chance of that happening?
Oh, how Bawny Fwank and Shillery of him, just before the Criminal Proceedings they take their balls and go home.
I say forcibly remove their balls. (Retirement Benefits).
Wasn’t he appointed acting chief on Nov 9, 2012? That would be after the election. I want the director of the IRS that was in power WHEN all this went down.
This is bogus.
>>Im stealing that for my tagline.<<
Haha, good idea. Think I will do that myself.
Name | Took Office | Left Office |
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Lawrence B. Gibbs | Aug 4, 1986 | Mar 4, 1989 |
Michael J. Murphy (Acting) | Mar 5, 1989 | Jul 4, 1989 |
Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. | Jul 5, 1989 | Feb 2, 1992 |
Shirley D. Peterson | Feb 3, 1992 | Jan 20, 1993 |
Michael P. Dolan (Acting) | Jan 21, 1993 | May 26, 1993 |
Margaret Milner Richardson | May 27, 1993 | May 31, 1997 |
Michael P. Dolan (Acting) | Jun 1, 1997 | Nov 12, 1997 |
Charles O. Rossotti | Nov 13, 1997 | Nov 6, 2002 |
Bob Wenzel (Acting) | Nov 7, 2002 | Apr 30, 2003 |
Mark W. Everson | May 1, 2003 | May 4, 2007 |
Kevin M. Brown (Acting) | May 5, 2007 | Sep 9, 2007 |
Linda E. Stiff[12] (Acting) | Sep 10, 2007 | Mar 24, 2008 |
Douglas H. Shulman[13] | Mar 24, 2008 | Nov 9, 2012 |
Steven T. Miller | Nov 10, 2012 | May 15, 2013 (Resigned at request) |
Courtesy Wikipedia
This has been going on well before Soetoro/Obama and GWB and Clinton. To get to the bottom of the dung heap you start digging at the top with very sharp shovels.
This is gettin' pitiful in the way this administration is pi$$ing on America.
So where are the “rogue” agents, and why haven’t they been fired?
Now the question is, to which house of degeneracy (that is, which major university) will he be appointed president?
When does he begin his new job as an Administrator of a prestigious University with a 6-figure income, tenured for life?
(If he sings, it won’t be very long)
Re: “Theyre merely doing the panic dance at the moment, as they round up all the lawyers and lock all the doors.”
Don’t forget “Shredding all the documents”.
I wonder if Sandy Burglar is back haunting the halls of the National Archives with his baggy bloomers on?
Did he ever serve a day or pay a dollar in fines for his destruction of National records?
You’ll sooner find the true birth certificate or college records for King Soetoro than any hard “evidence” of these crimes.
Bad enough there are people in this country who WANT to k*ll us.....but when you have your own government working against you....sheesh...is there no end to this?
He got about 48k in Federal commie kickbacks for his service to treason.
IRS Inspector General Report on Tax-Exempt Scrutiny of Political Organizations
This is from the report:
Figure 3: Criteria for Potential Political Cases (June 2011)
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