Political Targeting by IRS Outrages Obama, If True
This Barack Obama guy sounds like he could be a thorn in the side of government.
As lawmakers in Washington react to allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regularly targeted conservative groups when reviewing their requests for tax-exempt status, President Obama on Monday vowed to find out "exactly what happened" at the IRS during the period under scrutiny - and vowed that any wrongdoers would be held "fully accountable" if found to be operating "in anything less than a neutral and non-partisan way."
Mr. Obama, speaking at a joint press availability with British Prime Minister David Cameron, said he first learned about the allegations last Friday, reading about them in "the same news reports that I think most people" did.
The president of the United States gets his information about what the government he's the chief executive of does from some of the same news reports you do! The buck doesn't seem to stop in the White House anymore, it just keeps getting passed.
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