Zip:
Hmm, I’m beginning to think this scandal isn’t as “phony” as Obama’s been claiming.
Via Daily Caller:
Ex-Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner tried to audit Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley after Grassley blocked President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Justice (DOJ) tax division, an executive branch insider told The Daily Caller.
Grassley made it more difficult for the IRS and DOJ to work together to target conservative groups by blocking Obama’s political appointee Mary L. Smith from taking over the DOJ Tax Division, which prosecutes criminal cases for the IRS. Grassley held up the nomination in early 2010, just as Lerner and fellow IRS officials were mapping out their targeting strategy. The White House later withdrew Smith’s nomination.
The source confirmed to The Daily Caller that the White House and IRS officials “were very upset at Senator Grassley and Republicans for blocking a vote on Mary Smith’s nomination.”
The timeline on this thing is getting very interesting.
As more pieces of the puzzle are found the political nature of what went on becomes clearer.
When does the media wake up and pursue this story?
now the WHITE HOUSE has close the door to anyone seeking a file concerning their activities,
Fascism is alive and well in the IRS.
@old guy: Yes. This is still a great shock to me. It is stunning that the same media that played the Valarie Plame “outing” as possibly the end to Western Civilization has almost no interest in this story. This shows that our MSM are deeply corrupt. Can you imagine if the IRS were implicated in a scheme under a GOP administration in which liberal groups were targeted? It’s be “news” 24/7. The MSM would be obsessing on the “attack” on the Constitution. And on and on. This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate and in many ways is much bigger. I say again, the MSM are corrupt.
HAPPY 4rth OF JULY TO FLOPPING ACES,
I LOVE YOU,
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At what point do the Marines on Marine One do their duty to save the nation and jetison the supercargo?
@old guy: Never.
Old Media is in the tank for The One. They are going to do nothing but defend, deny, obfuscate, and outright lie for their guy. The MSM has become completely ideological. It’s not worth watching or reading except to justify one’s own views. There’s no public media anymore.