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In Wake of Scandal, Obama Fires IRS Boss .... Who Was Already Resigning
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Date: Thursday, 16-May-2013 16:09:34
Obama fires acting IRS commissioner in bid to quell growing anger over political targeting of Tea Party groups - but he says he was leaving anyway
Steven Miller is ousted but writes face-saving email announcing departure when his 'assignment ends in early June.'
Obama: IRS 'misconduct' is 'inexcusable and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.'
Jacob Lew, Obama's trusted Treasury Secretary and former chief of staff, gave Miller his walking papers
IRS reportedly targeted 300 right-wing groups while letting left-wing organizations slide through with far less scrutiny
President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking political casualty thus far in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks.
In a hastily called press conference in the East Room of the White House, Obama told reporters that he had asked Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to find out who was responsible for a program that targeted tea party groups and other conservative organizations for a special level of intrusive questioning after they applied for tax-exempt charitable statuses.
'Lew took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting director of the IRS,' Obama said.
'It’s important,' he added, 'to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward.'
But in an email to IRS employees, Miller claimed he would only be leaving next month because his assignment would be over.
Steven Miller is shown in a CBS report. He has submitted his resignation, but informed employees at the IRS that he would be leaving 'as my acting assignment ends in early June'
'It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,' Miller wrote. 'This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.'
The IRS, the president conceded, 'improperly screened conservative groups.' He referred to a report released Tuesday by the IRS's Inspector General.
'The misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable,' Obama exclaimed. 'It's inexcusable and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.'
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325223/Obama-fires-acting-IRS-commissioner-pressure-grows-surrounding-political-targeting-conservative-groups-sought-tax-exempt-status.html#ixzz2TUKf5Ajv
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4 comments:
Who leaked??
Who almost ALWAYS leaks???
- The govt itself.
Yes, reactionaries of every stripe chomped and swallowed - hook line and sinker, this pretext for entirely restructuring the evil IRS.
THAT's the BIG story here...
NOT just partisan politics as usual.
By next year the IRS will have employed 8,000 new agents for Obamacare alone...
This could be a push by Treasury to put in a fire-wall between the private Fed Reserve, and their private collection agency, the IRS...
It's even possible major tax reforms are in the offing...
I'm confused. If the Fed and IRS are not so called government agencies, and private corporations, where does Obuma get his authority to fire some criminal at the IRS?
Beside, all this BS about the IRS has been nothing but another bogus diversion from the real serious issues at hand. The treasonous bastards are all on damage control from being exposed.
They need to keep up the image that the government isn't a corporate entity.... So they will keep lying and covering their ass... Not gonna work, they are all going down!!
How the IRS leaks personal information:
http://www.in5d.com/news.html
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