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IRS misconduct prompted by tainted White House 'culture', Republicans sayGOP leaders took to the airwaves to spread their message that the Obama administration and its ‘paid liar’ Jay Carney have created a culture of labeling Tea Party activists and conservatives as terrorists, thus leading to the IRS scrutinyBy Sasha Goldstein
Sunday, June 2, 2013, 4:02 PMPresident Obama's administration, fronted by a "paid liar" of a spokesman, has created an anti-conservative atmosphere that led to IRS scrutiny of right-leaning organizations, top Republicans said Sunday.
"The culture of the president calling Tea Party groups terrorists and tea-baggers, and that entire culture has been cultivated by the president and his people, and everyone has been following," Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday."
Such a culture, Priebus continued, is proof-positive that the Internal Revenue Service's probe into conservative groups applying for nonprofit status came not from some rogue employees, but rather as a Washington directive.
The White House has labeled the department's Cincinnati office as responsible for the extra scrutiny right-leaning organizations received.
"That's why it doesn't make any sense," Priebus said. "That's why we need to keep digging, because the idea that two or three people in lower offices in Cincinnati just suddenly out of thin air just decided, 'You know what, why don't we launch this massive effort to derail conservative groups, and actually go after individuals that give to conservative groups,' that that just suddenly happened."
Investigation into the allegation is underway and, Rep. Darrell Issa said Sunday, there may already be proof the targeting came at the behest of the IRS' Washington headquarters. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the California Republican said the truth will come out, despite the Obama administration's attempt to obfuscate. Issa said White House spokesman Jay Carney "is saying whatever's convenient at the time" and changing the story about what happened.
"Their paid liar, their spokesperson, the picture behind, he's still making up things about what happened and calling this a local rogue," he told Candy Crowley.
A bipartisan group from the Ways and Means and Government Oversight and Reform committees has opened a probe, said Issa, the Oversight committee chairman.
"This is a problem that was in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters," he added. "We're getting to proving it."
Already, Issa said, two Cincinnati IRS employees have been interviewed — and both have damning info to dish. One told congressional investigators the directive to scrutinize conservative groups in 2010 came directly from Washington. Another said the Cincinnati employees were "thrown underneath the bus."
Lois Lerner, who oversaw the tax-exempt division the White House identified as responsible for targeting conservative groups, has since been put on administrative leave.
"What we have is people who have to come in and transcribe interviews," Issa said Sunday. "They're saying under penalty of crimes that certain things are true. We have subpoenaed documents that would support that they say emails went back and forth," Issa said. "We will learn the whole truth."
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