What's the point of Obama sacking Steven T. Miller for stuff that Douglas H. Shulman did? re: IRS

[Electric Monk]

7. This was answered in another thread. Here's what they wrote:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022849658#post5

Yo_Mama (3,590 posts)
5. It wasn't the wrong guy.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/steven-miller-irs-commissioner-resigns/
Apparently he failed to respond accurately to Congress on multiple occasions:

May 3: Deputy Commissioner Steven Miller is told by staff that that applications for tax-exempt status by tea party groups were inappropriately singled out for extra scrutiny, according to the agency. (Miller now is acting commissioner.)

June 15: Miller responds to a letter from Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., who had raised concerns about possible harassment of tea party groups by the IRS. Miller does not concede conservatives had been singled out. He says generally that the IRS is seeing more tax-exempt applications from politically active groups and taking steps to "coordinate the handling of the case to ensure consistency."

July 25: Miller testifies to the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee but does not divulge what he was told in May about the screening of tea party groups.

Sept. 11: Millers writes a letter responding to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee but again does not own up to the scrutiny conservatives were placed under. Hatch had written three times to the IRS about the complaints.

There is no way that this would be acceptable to Congress. The agency IG report apparently establishes that Miller had been informed of the problem, and then he did not tell Congress what he knew. Obama had to axe him.