The IRS ‘Scandal’ Disintegrates into Wild and Unproven Republican Accusations

[Tx4obama]

The IRS ‘Scandal’ Disintegrates into Wild and Unproven Republican Accusations

The press is reporting both that IRS chief (the Bush appointee) who was running the IRS in May of 2012 knew about what the IRS was doing in their Ohio office and that the now acting commissioner also knew in May.

This narrative presumes that the IRS was guilty of targeting conservatives, which has actually not been proven yet. What is established is that the IRS was investigating some conservative groups. But since Citizens United, the vast majority of groups founded requesting tax exempt status are conservative groups. Thus, mathematically, conservative groups are more likely to be investigated.

Who told the press that the Bush appointee knew in May? It turns out that is the interpretation of Republican congressional aides, who were not named in the Washington Post (my bold):

Moreover, details of the IRS’s efforts to target conservative groups reached the highest levels of the agency in May 2012, far earlier than has been disclosed, according to Republican congressional aides briefed by the IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration ­(TIGTA) on the details of their reviews.

Then-Commissioner Douglas Shulman, a George W. Bush appointee who stepped down in November, received a briefing from the TIGTA about what was happening in the Cincinnati office in May 2012, the aides said. His deputy and the agency’s current acting commissioner, Steven T. Miller, also learned about the matter that month, the aides said.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/republican-congressional-aides-source-allegation-irs-knew.html

[Niceguy1]

1. unfortunately the group were requested to provide information

that they were not required to by law. The inspector general's office had problems with what happened

[meow2u3]

2. Unprovable Republican accusations have beset Obama from day one

The baseless, unfounded attacks, all based on lies, twisting of the truth, and exaggerations, never stop. The IRS "scandal" is just the latest in an endless, relentless series of bigoted attacks designed to sully the reputation of Obama and hound him out of office. When the slanderous, libelous attacks won't work, they'll try to remove him from office by impeaching him on exaggerated or completely fabricated charges, just as they did to Bill Clinton.