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Lew: Yes, IRS Scandal is ‘Phony’Treasury secretary Jack Lew on Sunday got specific about President Obama’s contention that “phony scandals†are distracting lawmakers from tackling the important issues facing the country. With regard to the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups, Lew said, there is “no evidence†that any political appointee was involved in the matter, and “The attempt to try to keep finding that evidence is creating the kind of sense of a phony scandal that was being referred to there.†“We have to distinguish reality from the part that is phony,†Lew told NBC’s David Gregory. He went on to try to do so. “The attempts to keep finding that evidence†are presumably those being made by congressional investigators in both the House and the Senate. Though he didn’t say it outright, Lew suggested that the investigations should come to an end: “There was a problem, the problem has been addressed, and there was no political involvement that there is any evidence of,†he told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. The treasury secretary went on to say, â€There were a number of supervisors, all career, who exercised bad judgment, who were relieved of their responsibilities.†That’s technically true: Lois Lerner, Holly Paz, Joseph Grant, and others are no longer serving in their previous capacities at IRS headquarters. Last we knew, Lerner and Paz were placed on paid administrative leave, and Grant retired. But lawmakers haven’t yet been able to get an answer about whether they are still getting paid, for example, or whether they received performance bonuses.
