Posted on 05/15/2013 6:08:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
After days of using the term "if," President Obama finally acknowledged the IRS did in fact inappropriately target conservative groups in a statement released last night. IRS official Lois Lerner admitted last Friday that the IRS had specifically singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
I have now had the opportunity to review the Treasury Department watchdog’s report on its investigation of IRS personnel who improperly targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. And the report’s findings are intolerable and inexcusable. The federal government must conduct itself in a way that’s worthy of the public’s trust, and that’s especially true for the IRS. The IRS must apply the law in a fair and impartial way, and its employees must act with utmost integrity. This report shows that some of its employees failed that test.
I’ve directed Secretary Lew to hold those responsible for these failures accountable, and to make sure that each of the Inspector General’s recommendations are implemented quickly, so that such conduct never happens again. But regardless of how this conduct was allowed to take place, the bottom line is, it was wrong. Public service is a solemn privilege. I expect everyone who serves in the federal government to hold themselves to the highest ethical and moral standards. So do the American people. And as President, I intend to make sure our public servants live up to those standards every day.
If you notice the first sentance in the second paragraph of Obama's statement, he has passed the responsibility of holding these people accountable off to someone else.
UPDATE: White House blaming the Treasury Department for IRS scandal?
NBC's David Gregory: Obama Admin Frustrated At Obama Treasury Dept Over IRS
The buck stops...where?
The buck is stuck in a causality loop, it never reaches its destination.
So what...are they going to get a slap on the wrist?!
Whatever happened to the lost art of "PROOF READING?"
that’s spooky
“and to make sure that each of the Inspector General’s recommendations are implemented quickly,”
Notice how Barry deflects to the IG here. Recall how he shot IG Walpin in the head early on to send the message to all IG’s, you can report on problems but don’t report on problems which will embarrass me. This IG report should have been done a year ago and have gone off in the other areas of IRS misuses. No, it stayed focused on one narrow point because that was going to be the fall back: Nothing here except at some low level. Case closed.
I could probably make a killing proofreading from home for about 10 different organizations. I could do it all day given those conditions.
Anyone who doesn’t surmise/recognize/believe, that someone in the WH or connected directly to the administration was the source of this felony crime, needs their head examined. What would motivate a high level IRS agent to propagate orders to investigate only “conservative” orgs? They will cover this up and blame a low level guy and white wash the whole thing and the MSM will be their lap dogs.
If Obama hadn’t wanted this to happen, it wouldn’t have.
Even minus the ears and the facial wort, it is obvious this is a picture of America’s sweetheart.
The arteest is to be congratulated.
Two crooks in one.
All leftists who promote gun control need to be made to answer
“What is it that you want to do that requires the citizens to be disarmed?”
He is transparent alright. You can see right through his lies, unless you are blind
Just as did Homeland Security.
That, or pulled out of their derriere
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