Posted on 05/20/2013 1:22:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
Top White House aides first learned of a draft report detailing IRS abuses in targeting conservative groups in late April, but they chose to insulate President Obama by not informing him until it exploded in the press, the president’s spokesman said Monday.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Monday that White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler learned about an IRS inspector general’s draft report looking into the singling out of conservative groups on April 24. She advised senior White House staff including chief of staff Denis McDonough — about the then-draft report, but Mr. Carney said she believed that Mr. Obama shouldn’t be told and other staffers followed her advice.
“To be clear, we knew the subject of the investigation and we knew of the nature of some of the potential findings, but we did not have a copy of the draft report,” he said. “We did not know the details, the scope or the motivation surrounding the misconduct, and we did not know who was responsible.”
Mr. Obama, as well as Mr. Carney, have said they did not know that the IRS was targeting conservative groups until news of the impending IRS inspector general’s report broke in the press May 10. Mr. Obama has said he will not tolerate the political targeting by the IRS and forced the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller.
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But, HE WILL TOLERATE HIS PEOPLE NOT TELLING HIM about it until the news media finds out!
Amen...Give them a choice to tell the truth or be prosecuted, then follow through.
This is so blatantly pathetic I don’t see how even Dems can go along with it.
Get her in front of Congress and ask her who told her now was a good time to break this story.
"Are we to believe Ms Lerner that you were about to go public with a huge scandal involving the purely political actions of the IRS and you were not consulted or did not consult the White House?
Apparently Obama doesn't know a damn thing about anything happening in his Administration.
Thank goodness too, because he would be in trouble if he DID.
Lying sack of shit.
He met with the President of the IRS Union.
Of course he knew. He gave her instructions when they met.
Jail her she will squeal.
I swear right there at that line I had to go check if this was The Onion or Semi-News ..."
they struggle to protect the teflon racoon
I was thinking that it sounds like the fat guy in “Goodfellas” where he sends whispers back and forth between several layers of underlings.
It’s much easier to stand on the ground and tell the truth than it is to climb a tree and tell a lie.
I could swear that the last time we heard from this fleck of butt mucus, NO ONE in the WH knew anything about this.
Disgusting lying sack of I better stop there.
That’s like an executive officer on a ship holding back information from the captain so he won’t get in trouble.
Most likely a lie, but a good employee always informs their boos of anything they might need to know about. I always told my employees this and I did so for my boss. So it’s still incompetance for Obama as an administrator. We can’t have that for a president.
>>>Threaten a few of these useful idiots with serious jail time and watch them squeal.>>>
.................................YES................................
Time to step up, RINO'S
More like implausible deniability.
The tyranny of low expectations = hoisted on their own petard !
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