What Is Adminstration Hiding Now?
Two
more oddities in the Internal Revenue Service problem arose since Friday
morning.
The
first was the "planting" of the question that led Lois Lerner, head of the
tax-exempt division, to disclose the targeting practice in the first place. The
second was the false outrage by the President after being "informed" of the
problem.
Start
with the planted question. Before the Inspector General had filed his report the
auditor had told the IRS what would be released. The IRS, specifically Acting
Director Steven Miller and Ms. Lerner, hatched the scheme to diffuse the
revelation's problem by revealing it first.
At
an American Bar Association conference--not exactly a hotbed crawling with
reporters--Ms. Lerner answered a question that came from left field because it
was so far off the topics covered up to then.
Miller
tipped the hand when he answered a question Friday morning at his Ways and Means
Committee grilling. In a reply he said the "contact with Ms. Lerner had been by
phone. I have the notes." Immediately came the shocked query, "You have notes?
Let's see them."
Miller
backtracked, "Well, I didn't bring them with me; I can't seem to find them.
Maybe I don't have notes."
After
establishing Miller had managed to 'misplace' the notes, he did say what was in
them. "We talked about how to release the information to the public." Rep. Devin
Nunes-R, hit with another question. "Well, it was a prepared Q&A. We decided
it would be best because now we knew all of the facts...it made sense for us to
start talking about it in public."
The
next indignant question from Peter Roskam was, "Why didn't you come to us
first?" Miller: "We had planned to do it at the same time. That did not happen."
Roskam: "Why not?" Miller: "We did call to get on the calendar."
If
you've followed that neat sidestep, Miller is once again answering questions
strictly as they are asked and is not giving full answers. He is answering with
the truth and nothing but the truth but not the whole truth, therefore he is in
technical violation of the fact he took an oath before testifying.
But
the IG did not go straight to the IRS alone. It was revealed the Treasury
Department was informed of the mistakes before the IRS because of the depth of
the discovered problem.
This
is where Barack Obama's indignant anger becomes phony as a three-dollar bill.
Here you have two Cabinet level, Executive Branch agencies embroiled in a
controversy which was uncovered and investigated for more than a year--and our
beloved Commander in Chief has no idea such a problem exists?
That's
worse than the three monkeys with hands over eyes, ears and mouth.
I
have one more question, simply because my mind is leery of any path laid out by
this Administration. Obama is a magician at hiding things. What is it he doesn't
want us to look at?
Why
was this story given out by the IRS at this time? It was done on a Friday when
things generally get pushed to the back burners in favor of the weekend but what
is in the wings we aren't supposed to see?
It
can't be Benghazi though I am tired of the liberal commentators pushing the fact
"Benghazi is over and done." It can't be the Justice Department and the
non-recusal recusal of Eric Holder in the AP invasion of privacy (he didn't submit his recusal request in
writing so technically he was still the U.S. Attorney General in charge on the
case).
But
there is something else this shifty bunch doesn't want us to look at.
Could
it be the on-going central banks' printing press run as the various countries
seek to get an upper hand in the economic battle by devaluing their currencies?
A gambit Switzerland has not participated in.
Whatever,
this is no ordinary scandal. We better keep our eyes and ears open to find out
what is coming nect from this master illusionist. David Copperfield should be so
good.
"I have sworn on
the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of
man."--Thomas Jefferson
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