The IRS Scandal Now Has The Risk Of Reaching The White House

Noonan: A Bombshell In The IRS Scandal --Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

A higher office is implicated.

The IRS scandal was connected this week not just to the Washington office—that had been established—but to the office of the chief counsel.

That is a bombshell—such a big one that it managed to emerge in spite of an unfocused, frequently off-point congressional hearing in which some members seemed to have accidentally woken up in the middle of a committee room, some seemed unaware of the implications of what their investigators had uncovered, one pretended that the investigation should end if IRS workers couldn't say the president had personally called and told them to harass his foes, and one seemed to be holding a filibuster on Pakistan.

Still, what landed was a bombshell. And Democrats know it. Which is why they are so desperate to make the investigation go away. They know, as Republicans do, that the chief counsel of the IRS is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire agency.

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My Comment: I tend to stay away from the scandals that plague Washington .... only reporting on them when they impact the focus of the White House away from the issues that this blog likes to cover .... foreign policy/defense/national security/wars. As I had mentioned two months ago .... of all the scandals that are plaguing the Obama administration, the IRS scandal has the potential of being the BIG one .... because it impacts everyone. If Peegy Noonan's above report is accurate .... and it appears to be ..... this will be the first linkage of the White House to this scandal .... a situation that no-one should find themselves in. As to what will happen next .... if I was giving advice to the White House I would tell them that they should tell the IRS to release everything .... not being selective in releasing what they want to release. To not do so would only mean one thing .... the White House will be spending the next year or two focused on only this while ignoring the more important issues like .... economic policy/foreign policy/defense/national security/wars/etc..