Meanwhile, George Bush's IRS commissioner visited him just once in four years. Do the math people then tell me that the white house knew nothing of the goings on with the IRS and the IRS targeting conservatives for scrutiny and investigations under the Obama reign of terror.
Shulman’s extensive access to the White House first came to light
during his testimony last week before the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee. Shulman gave assorted answers when asked why he had
visited the White House 118 times during the period that the IRS was
targeting tea party and conservative nonprofits for extra scrutiny and
delays on their tax-exempt applications.
By contrast, Shulman’s predecessor Mark Everson only visited the
White House once during four years of service in the George W. Bush
administration and compared the IRS’s remoteness from the president to
“Siberia.” But the scope of Shulman’s White House visits — which
strongly suggests coordination by White House officials in the campaign
against the president’s political opponents — is even more striking in
comparison to the publicly recorded access of Cabinet members.
An analysis by The Daily Caller of the White House’s public “visitor
access records” showed that every current and former member of President
Obama’s Cabinet would have had to rack up at least 60 more public
visits to the president’s home to catch up with “Douglas Shulman.”
The visitor logs do not give a complete picture of White House
access. Some high-level officials get cleared for access and do not have
to sign in during visits. A Washington Post database
of visitor log records cautions, “The log may include some scheduled
visits that did not take place and exclude visits by members of
Congress, top officials and others who are not required to sign in at
security gates.”
The White House press office declined to comment on which visits by
high-ranking officials do and do not get recorded in the visitor log,
but it is probable that the vast majority of visits by major Cabinet
members do not end up in the public record. (RELATED: How much have scandals hurt Obama’s approval ratings?)
Nevertheless, many visits by current and former Cabinet members are
in the logs, and the record depicts an IRS chief uniquely at home in the
White House.
Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama’s friend and loyal
lieutenant, logged 62 publicly known White House visits, not even half
as many as Shulman’s 157.
Former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, to whom Shulman reported, clocked in at just 48 publicly known visits.
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