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- It turns out that more people in the White House were aware of the IRS’s misdeeds earlier than the administration had previously admitted. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, had originally made it sound as if the occupants of the building knew nothing more than that the inspector-general who oversees the IRS was about to produce a report on some internal abuses. Now Mr Carney admits that Mr Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, not only knew about the nature of the scandal, but had discussed with Treasury staff when the report on it would be released.