The Only Thing “Phony” is the Investigation

ACLJ - The Obama Administration is hunkered down.  The spin machine is in full force.  The mantra is the same: the IRS targeting conservatives is a “phony” scandal, just like all the rest.

The only thing phony here is the investigation.

For example, the Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, on Fox News this weekend refused to answer the simple question if he or anyone at Treasury, which supposedly oversees the IRS, has asked IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins if he had any involvement in the targeting of the Tea Party.

Senior IRS attorneys have pointed the finger directly to the IRS Chief Counsel’s office as being intimately involved in the targeting scheme.  The question – did the head of that office, Wilkins, an Obama political appointee, have anything to do with the scandal – is apparently too much to ask.    Read More