#IRS scandal: Obama met with Treasury union chief the day before the targeting began
**Posted by Phineas
It could be a coincidence: a meeting between a very union-friendly president and the head of the union that includes IRS employees, a union described as very “anti-Tea Party,” and thenΒ the very next dayΒ the IRS begins targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups, stalling their applications for non-profit status.
According to the White House Visitors Log, providedΒ hereΒ in searchable form byΒ U.S. News and World Report,Β the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.
The White House lists the IRS union leaderβs visit this way:
“Kelley, Colleen Potus 03/31/2010Β 12:30”
In White House language, βPOTUSβ stands for βPresident of the United States.β
The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Departmentβs Inspector Generalβs Report, IRS employees β the same employees who belong to the NTEU β set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America. The IG report wrote it up this way:
“April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit, suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.”
In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union β the union for IRS employees β met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS βDeterminations Unit Program agreedβ to open a βSensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.β As stated by the IG report.
I’m not yet ready to call this a “smoking gun,” but I do think Ms. Kelley should be hauled before the Ways and Means committee and made to answer some very pointed questions about their conversation and just what, if any, instructions or “encouragements” were given to her union members.
But I’m sure this is all one big coincidence.
viaΒ Jim Hoft.
RELATED: John Fund onΒ “Three signs there’s a cover-up.”
(Crossposted at Public Secrets)