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Posted on 05/21/2013 2:24:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Carney: Obama Didn’t Ask Why He Didn’t Know about IRS Before News Reports
By Andrew Johnson May 21, 2013 4:12 PM Comments 21
Jay Carney told reporters that President Obama did not ask his senior staff why he was learning about the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups for the first time through news reports two weeks ago, rather than from his staff. The administration has admitted that White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was informed in late April of the inspector general report detailing the targeting and that she shared the information with members of the the president’s senior staff. The White House maintains that neither Ruemmler nor the president’s staff made him aware of the report.
“The president believes that the counsel’s decision is the right one,” Carney said. He reiterated that the president would not have wanted to intervene in an ongoing investigation.
Carney also said that White House deputy chief of staff Mark Childress spoke with Treasury Department officials about how to best reveal the IRS’s targeting, including a “discussion about the possibility of a speech.” The targeting was instead revealed when Lois Lerner responded to a planted question about the targeting at a conference earlier this month.
I couldn’t care less in knowing when he knew of it... what I REALLY want to know is when he STOPPED knowing it!
Maybe Obama can find out from the media why he didn’t know or inquire about what he didn’t know. He’s smart like that!
Every boss I ever had in my life operated under some form of the credo: I don’t like surprises. They all said, “Keep me informed. Let me decide if something is important or not.” Of course, none of them was working under the precept of plausible deniability.
This is just another zero-truth lie from Obama. He front-ran that nonsense line last week at the graduation ceremony not to believe in rumors or talk about government tyranny. He said that precisely because he knew this scandal was about to hit.
Obama is incapable of telling the truth. If Obama says tomorrow that the government will never come after us, the hair will stand straight up on the back of my neck.
Okay, Jon Stewart, you can chalk one up in the Mr. Magoo column..
Yeah, that prolific mistaken quote always makes me loose my mind.
Why wasn’t Obama curious? Because it is common knowledge that Obama is incompetent and unable to handle a crisis. I believe that senior staff knew if Obama were to attempt management his cover would be blown.
Yeah, it's creepy. Like the Administration.
If I am the President, and a scandal is breaking that my WH aides know about and decided on their own, if we are to believe that, not to tell me about, asking why is on the top of my list after, “You know your career here ends today, right?”
Because he already knew and agreed with it.
Sounds about right. It’s Bush responsibility to know and obama’s right to push it on him. How much is the resident supposed to handle besides food, golf clubs and reggie as he’s had no training in how to be an American.
That should be the headline on the top of his impeachment papers. And scattered within them about ‘when in doubt refer to headline’.
Because he knew that they knew that he already knew
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