White House Says It Didn’t Loop Obama In on I.R.S. Inquiry
Source: new york times
White House officials were first notified on April 16 about an investigation into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups and discussed its potential findings with the Treasury Department but never told President Obama, the White House said Monday.
The I.R.S. inspector general informed the White House counsels office about the agencys nearly finished audit along with other reviews nearly a month before its release, the White House said. Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel, was personally told on April 24, and she notified the White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, and other senior aides without informing the president, the White House said.
She made the decision or the judgment that it was not necessary or appropriate to inform the president of this, and that didnt happen, said Jay Carney, the White House press secretary. And most importantly, no action was taken by anyone in this building to intervene.
He added that the president would not have acted even if he had known. Obviously, that would be wholly inappropriate, Mr. Carney said.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/us/politics/white-house-says-obama-was-kept-out-of-loop-on-irs-inquiry.html
isn't this something that Obama should have been made aware of?
patrice
(47,992 posts)to modify something else somehow because of what the IRS was working on?
indepat
(20,899 posts)did not rise to that? Does anyone believe his senior staff would have failed to tell the president if this information rose to that?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)If the GOPers had wanted to 'falsely' accuse Obama of ignoring the IRS issue in order to benefit him in winning the election - Issa had the opportunity to say so back then but didnt'.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and didn't inform the Pres or his Adm. so whos playing effing scandle games.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Thought I read that up here a couple of weeks ago but I cannot find that post now.