Will The White House Provide Correspondence On IRS Scandal?

A week ago tomorrow, Senator Rob Portman asked Obama to release correspondence between the White House, Treasury Department and IRS in regard to the extreme methods used against conservative groups. Have you seen this information released? Will it be released? Should it be released?  Our answers to these questions are no, yes, no and yes.

It is becoming very clear that the White House is up to its eyeballs in counter democratic processes, cover-ups and lies. It is time for those adults at 1600 Pennsylvania to step forward and provide answers to country. The time for "managing" the crisis is over. It is time for the 100% truth, warts, mistakes and all.

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Portman seeks correspondence showing 'private pressure' on IRS scandal

By Daniel Strauss - 05/16/13 05:08 PM ET

  

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) is asking President Obama to release correspondence between the White House, the Treasury Department, and the Internal Revenue Service that may show whether the tax agency was pressured to target conservative groups for extra scrutiny. 

"I write today to request information concerning what, if any, private pressure was exerted by the White House or Treasury Department political appointees on the IRS regarding the standards for approving and monitoring tax-exempt organizations, particularly 501(c)(4) groups," Portman writes in the letter released Thursday. 

Portman asks for "communications or notes of oral communications from White House officials or Treasury Department appointees to the Internal Revenue Service" that have to do with standards for dealing with tax-exempt groups, enforcing policy for 501(c)(4) groups, and political activities by those groups.

Portman's letter comes as the White House seeks to do damage control after the IRS admitted that employees in the agency's Cincinnati field office had been using a higher level of scrutiny of Tea Party organizations. 

A number of lawmakers have vowed to hold congressional investigations into the matter. Steve Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS, resigned on Wednesday. 

On Thursday, the White House announced that Office of Management and Budget Controller Danny Werfel would succeed Miller as acting commissioner.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/300305-portman-seeks-correspondence-showing-private-pressure-on-irs-scandal#ixzz2TYtSA8my 
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