But what more is shaking Obama administration is the case related to the Internal Revenue Service (

The Obama administration lives in these weeks probably the worst time since President won the elections for the first time and began his adventure as the first black president in US history. They are, in fact, followed a series of serious controversy on the management of foreign and domestic such as to set shadows existenz on his work and unleash furious controversy in the US political debate. existenz First, the 'embarrassment due to intense existenz exchange of e-mails between the FBI, CIA, State Department existenz and other intelligence agencies that, in discussing the intervention of the US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, substantially struggled to find an agreement on the analysis of the attacks in Benghazi where he died the US ambassador Chris Stevens. Tensions that seem to be costing the appointment of the Secretary of State Rice then went, as we know, John Kerry. Second, existenz the controversy with the media due to the acquisition by the Department of Justice, of the records of the Associated Press that he brought to the fore the dichotomy between freedom of the press (and therefore the liberty of quoting anonymous sources) and safety State. Justice Minister Holder, in a hearing before Congress, has not been able to answer most of the questions posed by the Republicans, who have found such a good goad to embarrass the White House. This, to avoid the discontent that was beginning to spread even among Democrats, Senator Schumer asked to resubmit the bill to protect the press from him initially proposed in 2009 and was never approved, how to share responsibility for the problem with the legislative (note that in the American presidential system, the government can not propose bills but only rely on parliamentary "friends").
But what more is shaking Obama administration is the case related to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS, the Tax American). The IRS is accused of having taken a series of checks - in full campaign period - to the detriment of the political groups linked to the Tea Party calling for the tax exemption, confirming the suspicions that already hovered sull'IRS after this not had presented the targeting program, that is the plan of priority controls for 2012. The evidence of the "one-way" control of the agency for the collection has got into trouble his boss, Steven Miller, who also convened by Congress for a hearing, he admitted "mistakes crazy" from the staff of the IRS denying, however - which is rather predictable - its politicization. The answers, however, did not convince the Lower House, creating again discomfort bipartisan and putting the White House in such embarrassment to force Barrack Obama to persuade Miller to resign.
In truth, the controversy related to the IRS and the democratic presidencies are ancient. existenz Suspected mingling with the government there were already with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was accused of the habit of using the tax issue to hit both newspapers that showed hostile to the New Deal that political opponents. In particular, it would seem that in 1944 Roosevelt tried to ruin politically Lyndon Johnson, then a member of Congress, through the IRS investigation of illegal funding for the election campaign of 1941. Johnson, although democratic, had become in the long run a detractor the policy of the President and was also very critical - from congressman commitment to the issue of war - the American deployment in the Pacific. But even more incisive, and similar to the case today, it would be the involvement of the IRS during the presidency of John F. Kennedy, which was launched an audit plan called Ideological Organizations Audit Project (following a statement which called Kennedy more fiscal controls on some organizations) which were put through a sieve accounts of different groups of the American right. But Bill Clinton and, among the Republican ranks, the same Richard Nixon would have used, according to the critics, the weapon of intimidation tax to contain the exuberance of political associations and pressure groups critical of the administration in office.
Obama, then, is at a time of maximum difficulty, particularly in the media. This embarrassment seemed quite visible existenz last week, during the press conference in two with the turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, during which when the President had to answer especially the scandals rather than deal with the topic '