FOXNews.com: White House timeline of IRS scandal, when they were told, shifts

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White House timeline of IRS scandal, when they were told, shifts May 20th 2013, 19:09 Published May 20, 2013 FoxNews.com The timeline for when senior White House officials knew about the IRS scandal seems to be shifting. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the president's counsel was told on April 24 about the preliminary findings of an IRS audit that showed tax officials unfairly targeted Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status.  Carney had previously said that White House counsel did not have any details about the IRS probe and was given a generic head's up that one was being conducted.  Senior legal counsel Kathryn Ruemmier was told about the audit on April 24, Carney said Monday. She then told Denis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff and other senior officials about the investigation. "It was the judgment of counsel this is not a matter she should convey to the president," Carney said. "Her opinion that this is not the kind of thing that requires notification to the president." "No one in this building intervened in an independent investigation or anything that could be seen that way," he said, adding that the misconduct had stopped in 2012, "almost a year before we knew about it." Carney also said while Ruemmier knew the subject of the investigation and potential findings, they were not given a draft of the report and understood details could change.

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