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FILE: Jan. 31, 2014: President Obama in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C.AP
President Obama on Sunday downplayed the significance of several scandals that have hung over his second term, suggesting his administration did not mislead the public on the Benghazi attack and declaring the IRS scandal had “not even a smidgeon of corruption.”
Obama declined to say whether he was told immediately that the fatal Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, was a terror strike and that the more important issue is whether security lapses have now been fixed.
“The key is that we’ve implemented the reforms that have been recommended,” the president said in a roughly 10-minute interview at the White House with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
He also tried to move past the IRS targeting scandal.
He acknowledged that then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman had been to the White House more than 100 hundred times but said he couldn’t recall speaking to him on any of those occasions.
Obama also rejected the suggestion that the IRS was used for political purposes, by singling out Tea Party groups seeking tax exemption.
“There wasn’t even a smidgeon of corruption,” said Obama, arguing the investigations have been completed. “These things keep on resurfacing because you and your TV station will promote them.”
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