Lois Lerner
We have previously learned that House investigators had interviewed IRS officials in Cincinnati who had told them that contrary to what the IRS has stated, the targeting of conservative groups did not originate in Cincinnati, but Washington. Now we have two names to go with those statements.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/07/irs-worker-blasts-lerner-for-blaming-ohio-office-on-targeting-likens-effort-to/?intcmp=trending
"According to transcripts of interviews that House investigators conducted with two Cincinnati office employees and which Fox News reviewed, agent Elizabeth Hofacre claimed that the idea this program was the work of two rogue agents is "absurd."
It also turns out that the issue goes back further than 2011. An e-mail sent from Cincinnati to Washington in 2010 belies the claim that Washington officials learned of the targeting in 2011.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/07/irs-email-shows-dc-officials-knew-about-tea-party-scandal-in-2010-not-2011/
" A misfired email from an Internal Revenue Service employee in Ohio alerted officials in Washington that conservative groups were being targeted a full year earlier than previously acknowledged, Fox News confirms. "
This should not alter the fact that this idea was almost certainly hatched in Washington-just as Fast and Furious wasn't hatched in Phoenix, rather by people inside the beltway.
Somebody in Washington is in a lot of trouble. I can see why Ms Lerner took the 5th. Wise move.
I wonder who will squeal first and blame the White House. And I wonder who in the White House will point the finger at Obama in order to "Cut a Deal".
ReplyDeleteNobody at the White House is quaking in their boots at the level of argument posed here by Findalis and elwood.
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