Examiner Editorial: Obama has lost all credibility on IRS and Benghazi

Published February 9, 2014 5:00am ET



President Obama’s health care law has eclipsed everything else his administration has done, sending his popularity to new lows. But in assessing the president’s credibility, Americans should not forget two scandals that remain as important as his broken promises on health care reform.

A House oversight hearing on Thursday brought renewed attention to the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups from 2010 to the present. Catherine Engelbrecht testified that, after she applied for tax-exempt status for the King Street Patriots in Houston, four federal agencies that had completely ignored her family’s business for 20 years began visiting, often. The alphabet soup of agencies that took sudden interest in Engelbrecht included OSHA (which saw a fork lift driver without a seat belt), the IRS (which audited her and her husband personally, as well as the business), the BATF (even though her business makes no gun parts), and the FBI.

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