Bill Clinton

"I think a lot of federal employees do their work under the radar."-- Colleen Kelley , president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents more than 150,000 federal workers including those at the IRS, in a May 2012 interview with The Hill.The White House has changed its story about who knew what and when as it relates to the targeting of President Obama's political enemies by the IRS.That's not a good thing. Prior to the story switch, the White House was able to hold the line that Team Obama had been direct and forthcoming about the IRS abuses and that the president and his top aides learned about the scandal in the news. They were just as shocked as everyone else.But now we know that White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was clued in about a damning report on IRS misconduct and that word was also sent to top aides to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew so his department could brace for the news. But White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was adamant that no one told Pres...

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