President Barack Obama with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)President Barack Obama on Monday will likely face his first public question on the widening scandal over IRS targeting of conservative political groups. Obama will hold what the White House is billing as a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron at 11:15 a.m.
The question-and-answer session will be Obama?s first since the revelation on Friday that the Internal Revenue Service investigated the tax-exempt status of groups with conservative leanings and terms like ?tea party? in their names.
On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that "if there was inappropriate conduct here, that [Obama] would want it thoroughly investigated and we would not tolerate that.?
But Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday that the IRS?s action needs to be ?personally condemned? by the president, who must ?make crystal clear that this is totally unacceptable.?
Collins also called into question the IRS?s early claim that the improper behavior was the work of low-level employees.
"I just don't buy that this was a couple of rogue IRS employees," she said, underlining that "groups with 'progressive' in their names were not targeted similarly."
Obama could also face questions on his administration?s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi that claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. He and Cameron could also face questions about the bloody civil war in Syria.
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