Thursday, May 16, 2013

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs ObamaCare Office

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today. - ABC

Unreal: IRS Official Who Oversaw Targeting Scandal Now In Charge of Obamacare Division - Guy Benson/Townhall

DRUDGE:
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Second IRS official to leave amid tea party scandal - AP via FOX
Obama: No Special Counsel Needed on IRS - Eliana Johnson/National Review

President Obama maintained today that he was not aware the IRS was targeting conservative groups until last Friday, when news of the inspector general’s report was leaked to the press, but dodged the question about whether anybody in the White House possessed that knowledge.

Silent on what others in the executive branch may have known, he said, “I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked to press.”