Candy Crowley of CNN's State of the Union does not think it's relevant to the investigation
that the original IRS supervisor in Cincinnati who managed the screening group has testified that he doesn't believe that the White House had any involvement in scrutinizing Tea Party applications and that this Supervisor is a 21 year employee of the IRS and described himself as a Conservative Republican.
Cincinnati IRS Screening Group Manager
Q: "In your opinion, was the decision to screen and centralize the review of Tea Party cases the targeting of the President's political enemies?"
A: "I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development."
Q: "Do you have any reason to believe that anyone in the White House was involved in the decision to screen Tea Party cases?"
A: "I have no reason to believe that."
"...The Maryland lawmaker's staff on Sunday released a letter sent to Issa in which Cummings contended that a key supervisor in the IRS' Cincinnati office had suggested the White House had no involvement in the controversial practices. "I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do [with anything] other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development," the letter quoted the supervisor as saying in his committee interview.
"He is a conservative Republican working for the IRS. I think this interview and these statements go a long way to showing that the White House was not involved in this," Cummings said on CNN. ..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/09/elijah-cummings-irs_n_3411812.html
If this guy wanted to point a finger at the White House, he had every opportunity to do so and did not. He also was the one responsible for submitting the initial documentation to the Washington Technical Office (WTO) because he wanted them to make some type of ruling on the matter on how their group should review these applications going forward to ensure that the treatment was consistent.
But dear Candy tries to brush over this fact when presented with this information in her conversation with Rep. Cummings because:
1) we don't yet know who sent that BOLO (be on the lookout) memo about applications with the words Tea Party or Patriots in it; and
2) this Supervisor (who sent the original letter to the WTO) may not have known about any potential White House involvement because that's Darrel Issa's point.
Huh!!!!!!!
If the Conservative IRS Supervisor of 21 years says that he was the original source of escalating the issue to the WTO after his people brought it to his attention they were receiving a large number of these types of applications from groups which appeared to have political overtones to them, and needed guidance on how to evaluate these applications so as to be consistent going forward, and he decided to elevate this up the chain of command, why is Darryl Issa still looking for a White House smoking gun which doesn't exist? And more so, why does Candy Crowley not think this is more relevant than what the chronic partisan witch hunter believes?
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