In an interview that aired Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) expressed doubt that President Barack Obama had no knowledge of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups.
Boehner told Fox News Channel’s Greta van Susteren that he can’t imagine being oblivious to such information if he were in Obama’s position.
“It’s pretty inconceivable to me that the President wouldn’t know,” Boehner said. “I’m just putting myself in his shoes. I deal with my senior staff every day. And if the White House had known about this, which now it appears they’ve known about it for about a year, it’s hard to imagine it wouldn’t have come up in some conversation.”
Boehner acknowledged that aides may have “attempted to insulate the President,” but still found it difficult to believe that Obama was unaware.
“They could have attempted to insulate the President from this news,” Boehner said. “But with as many people that were involved in the audit, the number of people involved in the investigation, somebody — and the number of people in the White House that knew — it really is inconceivable that he wouldn’t have known about it.”
