The Internal Revenue Service's watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president's re-election campaign.
The disclosure to the Treasury general counsel and the deputy secretary was a cursory one, according to J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. He said he didn't reveal conclusions of the probe, which was in its early stages, and his disclosure came as part of a routine update to Treasury leaders. At the time, Republican lawmakers were complaining publicly about alleged IRS targeting of tea-party groups.
Read it all here.
Lots of people seem indifferent to this scandal. I find that a cause of anxiety. Perhaps we need to hear these wise words from Eli Wiesel:
“The opposite of love is not
hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the
opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
“There may be times when we are
powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to
protest.”
“Whoever survives a test,
whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”
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