What was a campaign official doing in White House meetings with the IRS?
Congressman Issa should call in Ms. Cutter and recall Mr. Shulman to testify under oath about these meetings. I, for one, would like to watch them squirm as they commit perjury.
Yes. Particularly since, no matter how much they attempt to synchronize their lies beforehand, they won’t know just how much independent information Issa has.
One hole in that story. It’s been established that the head of the IRS, Mr. Shulman, was cleared by the Secret Service to enter the White House 157 times, most of which were for a biweekly PPACA implementation meeting. However, he didn’t attend most days, and the logs only show him signing in 11 times in that timeframe. See
That’s a separate issue from the topic of this post, which was his meeting with an Obama campaign official.
Is there any reason to believe she was talking about meetings that happened after she joined the campaign?
“and the logs only show him signing in 11 times in that timeframe.”
I am not sure that sign in sheets mean anything. Perhaps we should ask Richard Windsor.
As far as political personnel participating in meetings with career bureaucrats, the Obama administration appears to know no boundaries.
Do you have evidence that political personnel participated in meetings with career bureaucrats? Do tell.
Post got cut off. For details see:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/31/irs-white-house-visits-less-than-meets-the-eye.html
CUTTER:…
Number three, many of those meetings were for health care implementation. I was in them with him.
Jake Tapper Transcript
“Hey, it might not be -157- … but it’s enough for me to call it many!”
And:
“Hey, I was a political operative meeting with Obama and Shulman on the IRS implementing Obamacare … but there was nothing political going on.“
So Obama orchestrated his secret plan to use the IRS against the Tea Party by having meetings on the public White House schedule between the Bush-appointed IRS commissioner and a campaign official, who then spills the beans on CNN. That’s your smoking gun?
Bush appointed means something to you, does it Jim?
Fire them all and start again with a more specific loyalty oath. Protect and defend the constitution doesn’t seem to cut it.
“Bush appointed means something to you, does it Jim?”
The phrase “words have meanings” doesn’t compute for Baghdad Jim. It would be interesting to hear him reconcile his comment above with the Bush-appointed Supreme Court justice saving the Obamacare tax that the IRS continues to pretend is a penalty.
Are you saying Roberts was part of a secret, illegal conspiracy to tilt the election to Obama? Because that’s what the linked post is alleging about Shulman. I would be surprised to see any Bush appointee in such a role.
Rick C is merely pointing out that a person appointed by Bush isn’t a good predictor of behavior. But since you think it does, it doesn’t look good for all those Obama appointees using the IRS and other government agencies to target political dissidents.
Who has Obama appointed to the IRS? My understanding is that there are only two appointed positions there, and the top one was held by a Bush appointee for the entire period in question.
Steven Miller
Daniel Werfel
I don’t think Obama appointed Miller. He was a career IRS guy who became acting commissioner automatically when Shulman stepped down.
Werfel was appointed last month; he didn’t have anything to do with the targeting scandal.
he didn’t have anything to do with the targeting scandal.
Neither did Bush. The targeting happened during the Obama Administration. The issue of who appointed whom is irrelevant. What is relevant is the abuse of power and the fact that Obama has done nothing to reign it in. His AG has the authority to appoint a Prosecutor to prosecute based on the findings of the IG. The AG is an Obama appointee, but that doesn’t matter. Obama has the authority to fire him for not doing his job, and find someone that will investigate the IRS’s abuse.