Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
NBC's Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election (VIDEO AT LINK)
The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What's going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when -- after these officials are briefed by the IG that this is going on, they don't disclose it. In fact, the commissioner sent a letter to Congress in September on this subject and did not reveal this. Imagine if we -- if you can -- what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different."
What are the names of the GOP senators that got the letter last September?
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #2What are the names of the GOP senators that got the letter last September?
It doesn't matter who got the letter because the letter from the Commissioner denied any targeting was happening.
I think it does matter, because the letter stopped them from inquiring further last fall. What are the senators' explanations for that?
The hearings today showed that reasonable questions where not asked. For example, they know that the records of conservatives were obtained, but they don't know for how long they were kept. They've been destroyed, now, but no one knows how long they were kept. This gives deniability and cover later on.
"We regret that we intimidated the people, but we stopped doing that. We're already said we are sorry."
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson