The IRS scandal - still going strong
The IRS scandal surfaced over 60 days ago and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
From Peggy Noonan at the
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: A Bombshell in the IRS Scandal
The IRS scandal was connected this week not just to the Washington office�that had been established�but to the office of the chief counsel.
That is a bombshell�such a big one that it managed to emerge in spite of an unfocused, frequently off-point congressional hearing in which some members seemed to have accidentally woken up in the middle of a committee room, some seemed unaware of the implications of what their investigators had uncovered, one pretended that the investigation should end if IRS workers couldn't say the president had personally called and told them to harass his foes, and one seemed to be holding a filibuster on Pakistan.
Still, what landed was a bombshell. And Democrats know it. Which is why they are so desperate to make the investigation go away. They know, as Republicans do, that the chief counsel of the IRS is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire agency.
Much more at the site including this observation:
Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, finally woke the proceedings up with what he called "the evolution of the defense" since the scandal began. First, Ms. Lerner planted a question at a conference. Then she said the Cincinnati office did it�a narrative that was advanced by the president's spokesman, Jay Carney. Then came the suggestion the IRS was too badly managed to pull off a sophisticated conspiracy. Then the charge that liberal groups were targeted too�"we did it against both ends of the political spectrum." When the inspector general of the IRS said no, it was conservative groups that were targeted, he came under attack. Now the defense is that the White House wasn't involved, so case closed.
Time to let some light into this -- the IRS was being used as a tool to persecute those the Obama administration didn't like. Where did this originate and whose fingerprints do we see.
Posted by DaveH at July 19, 2013 12:37 PM