Treasury Sec: I knew about IRS scandal last week – and also
last Fall
Breitbart – Wynton Hall – 5/17/2013
In an interview with Bloomberg
TV, former Obama chief of staff-turned-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew offered
two conflicting yet carefully worded answers as to when he first learned that
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted Tea Party and conservative
groups: he learned last week--and possibly before the 2012 election.
Bloomberg's Al Hunt asked
Lew, whose Treasury Department oversees the IRS: “When were you first notified
that IRS agents were targeting conservative groups like the Tea Party?”
“I learned the substance of
this report last Friday when it became a matter of public knowledge,” Lew
claimed. “Before that, in mid-March [2013], I had had a conversation, just a
getting-to-know-you conversation, with the inspector general right after I
started, and he went through a number of items that were matters they were
working on. And the topic of a project on the 501(c)3 issue was one of the
things he briefed me was ongoing.”
Hunt then asked whether
former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Lew’s deputy, Neal Wolin, or the
general counsel knew about the IRS’s political profiling of conservative
groups.
“I think that there was-the
heads-up that I got was something that was a matter of public knowledge,” said
Lew. “It was posted on the IG's website in the fall of 2012. I believe that
other is typically the practice that an inspector general notify the agencies
when matters are opened. I was not aware of any details.”
It is possible that
"fall of 2012" could refer to a period of time before the election.
Regardless, Lew would have discovered the investigation in his capacity as
President Obama's chief of staff, meaning that it is possible the president
knew of the investigation in 2012 as well.
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