On Friday, Steven Miller, the former acting IRS chief, told the House Ways and Means Committee that he didn’t think it was wrong to target conservative groups.
“I don’t think targeting is wrong,” he said.
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Some 500 conservative groups were targeted by the IRS because of their political beliefs. Meanwhile, groups with liberal-sounding names were given carte blanche treatment.
Video of the exchange can be seen here, courtesy of the Gateway Pundit:
But that’s not all.
Rep. Paul Ryan got Miller to admit that progressive-sounding groups were not targeted.
After admitting he was told who was responsible, Miller suddenly has a case of temporary amnesia:
Miller also whined that the word “targeting” was a “pejorative.” Poor baby:
But according to Jay Carney, none of this even happened. Neither did Benghazi or the AP phone scandal. Nope, we all just made this stuff up.
Apparently, the letter signed by Sen. Chuck Schumer doesn’t exist, either. Who knows, maybe they’ll claim the Obama administration doesn’t really exist and all this is just a really bad four-year-long nightmare no one can wake up from…
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