IRS Official Says White House Wasn’t Involved in Groups’ Review
By Laura Litvan - Jun 9, 2013 3:13 PM ET
An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Cincinnati has told lawmakers that the White House wasn’t involved in the agency’s scrutiny of small-government groups, said Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
Cummings, the top Democrat on a panel probing the IRS over its tougher review of Tea Party groups’ tax-exempt status, said today on CNN’s “State of the Union” program that it’s time to “wrap up this case and move on” by ending congressional investigations.
Cummings said he would make public a transcript of the closed-door interview lawmakers had with the IRS official, and other witnesses, by the end of this week if the chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Committee, Darrell Issa of California, doesn’t. He didn’t name the official.
Issa rejected the call to end the panel’s probe.
“I strongly disagree with Ranking Member Cummings’s assertion that we know everything we need to know about inappropriate targeting of Tea Party groups by the IRS and the case is, in his word, ’solved,’” Issa said in a statement. “His extreme and reckless assertions are a signal that his true motivation is stopping needed Congressional oversight and he has no genuine interest in working, on a bipartisan basis, to expose the full truth.”
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