Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year

[MALiberal]

Source: ABC NEWS

Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 — months before last year’s the Presidential election. Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it at approximately the same time.
In a letter dated July 11, 2012, the man who conducted the investigation — IRS inspector general J. Russell George — wrote to Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, telling him that he was investigating the issue and offering to keep him updated as the investigation progressed.
“The Oversight Committee knew about the audit because it requested it,” an Issa aide told ABC News. Issa released the letter, along with his own letter dated June 28, 2012 requesting the investigation, last week.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/republicans-informed-of-irs-investigation-last-year/

[Baitball Blogger]

1. D'oh!

Well, that explains why three "scandals" hit at the same time.

[Iliyah]

2. I knew about this

but the GOPers as usual played VICTIM and on cue cried foul all along knowing of this prior to last week. What a bunch of fake assholes but their misinformed base will still eat the "scandal" up. I saw some of the questions directed at Miller from GOPers, such a display of dishonestly. Oh wait, GOP party of no are in your face dishonest.

[amerciti001]

3. Well, well..., looks like some sh*t about to hit the fan...

This seems to be the GOP Rethugs modus operandi, to ask for and cause the initiation of some form or type of an investigation, wait a while (when they think everyone memory has lapsed), then cry foul. WTF. Are these people that dense not to think that there are news articles or videos or some form or type of records still out, contrary to the facts of the "scandals" they claim. These people are a bunch of Dumb-Asses!!

[patrice]

4. So! The REAL problem may just be in exactly what that invesigation was parsing out, not that it

was happening in the first place, which raises the question: What, exactly, really did trigger this reaction.

Apparently, Miller wasn't doing it the way that Issa wanted it done.

[Igel]

6. That's what it says.

They didn't get upset at the investigation. They didn't like how the investigation was run.

Moreover, they actually waited for the report.

How novel and strange--not prejudging and assuming that if there's an investigation, the worst possible things must be true. And complaining about process during the process as opposed to complaining about the lack of consequences before the process is fully under way.

Veddy strange.

[patrice]

8. They expected to win in 2012 and thence to have an absolutely clear run of the field. This IS some

deep SHIT right here, maybe even the deepest there is.

[mtasselin]

5. asshole's

The gop is nothing but a bunch of lying assholes. They knew the investigation was going on and said nothing speaks volumes, if they would have brought this out it would have made the election so much closer, but I think that they did not really want oh Mittens in their in the first place, still a bunch of lying assholes.

[amerciti001]

7. Or, if they had brought it out back last year in 2012...

it may have open that pandora box about 501(c)4's and all of the dark money that they were essentially using to influence the political progress, didn't want to start that conversation, yet.

As far as thinking that they didn't really want Mittens in the first place, remember that Norquist said that all they need in the White House was someone with a pen in hand to sign off for all of the right-wing agenda, heck as far these people were concerned, Herman Cain would have fit the bill, as long as he signed any and all right-wing legislation that the House passed, good enough for them.

[Aviation Pro]

9. The sturm und drang...

...the sound and fury in two seconds.

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/2213/mp3/349297_SOUNDDOGS__ai.mp3