According to a Saturday story in the Daily Caller, Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kansas dropped a potential bombshell on the Hugh Hewitt radio show. Roberts suggested that Obama consigliere Valarie Jarrett is linked to the IRS targeting scandal. He offered no hard evidence, but noted that he was privy to the Senate Finance Committee’s investigation of the IRS scandal, which he termed a “whitewash” because of the efforts of the committee’s Democratic majority. Roberts called for further investigations to establish possible links between Lois Lerner, the disgraced IRS official at the center of the scandal, and the White House.

As the National Review recently noted, Jarrett is a shadowy figure whose relationship with the Obamas dates back from Chicago. She is considered the second most powerful person in the White House, next only to the president of the United States. Jarrett is considered an enabler of the president’s worst tendencies, such as his boredom with dealing with foreign policy issues. One former Obama aide referred to her as “She Who Must Not be Challenged.”

If Roberts is correct and evidence comes to light linking Jarrett to Lerner and thus the IRS scandal, the story could bust wide open. The official spin has been that Lerner and a group of rogue IRS officials were acting alone, without direction from or knowledge of the Obama White House. It the otherwise was shown to be the case, the IRS scandal could become as much a cancer on the presidency as was Watergate.
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