Heads Roll: 'Angry' Obama Fires Top Official

‘I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior’

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Joe Kovacs

President Obama has announced the ouster of Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, as the administration is embroiled in controversy for targeting conservative and tea-party groups.

“Today, Secretary [Jacob] Lew took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS, because given the controversy surrounding this audit, it’s important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward,” Obama said during a Wednesday evening broadcast from the White House.

“I’ve reviewed the Treasury Department watchdog’s report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives.”

“As I said earlier, it should not matter what political stripe you’re from, the fact of the matter is that the IRS has to operate with absolute integrity.”

“I’ll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this ever happens again,” the president added.

While Obama claims Miller was asked to resign and did so, the Daily Mail reports that in an email to IRS employees, Miller claimed he would only be leaving next month because his assignment was finished.

“It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,” Miller wrote. “This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.”

Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama “expects the Treasury Department and IRS to take all the necessary actions to make sure this kind of thing cannot happen again,” Carney said. “And he insists this happen, because it is of the utmost importance in the president’s mind that people understand and believe that the IRS applies our tax laws in a neutral and fair way to everyone.”

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