When will Jeffrey Zients return from South Africa?
Daily Caller – Patrick Howley
– 7/23/2013
Amid new revelations about the IRS targeting scandal, the
Obama administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said Tuesday that
former OMB head Jeffrey Zients’ extended absence from the United States is due
to a family vacation.
OMB’s former leader
Jeffrey Zients met at the White House with key figures at the Internal
Revenue Service just before news broke that the IRS was targeting conservative
nonprofit groups for abusive audits and delays.
Zients has still not
returned from an overseas trip that began after his departure from the Obama
administration in April, two weeks before the IRS scandal broke.
As The Daily Caller reported, Zients met with
then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and Shulman’s political aide Jonathan
Davis and spokesman Frank Keith at the Eisenhower Executive
Office Building
at the White House complex on April 24, 2012.
Only Zients, who was
in charge of OMB at the time, and the three men from the IRS attended the
meeting, according to White House visitor logs. Their appointment ended more
than eight hours after it began, according to the logs.
The next day, April
25, the IRS’s chief counsel’s office — led by William Wilkins, who met with Obama at the White House that same week —
sent Washington-based IRS officials “additional
comments on the draft guidance.” These guidelines covered approving or denying
tea party tax-exempt applications
, according to a report on the
IRS scandal compiled by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George.
, according to a report on the
IRS scandal compiled by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George.
It remains unclear
why Shulman’s political and press aides were present at the meeting.
After a Senate vote
confirming his successor — Sylvia Mathews Burwell — Zients left his post at OMB
on April 24, 2013.
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