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The White House and the IRS: A Carteresque Fiasco

The Obama White House is guilty not of Nixonian plotting in the IRS scandal but of incompetence on par with Jimmy Carter’s. Robert Shrum on what Obama’s team got wrong.

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Robert Shrum
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Robert Shrum

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