Subpoena her: CNN's Stephanie Cutter vouches for former IRS chief Doug Shulman

Brett T. | 5:19 PM on May 31, 2013

A lot of people had high hopes for Jake Tapper after CNN lured him away from ABC News with the offer of his own show. Get used to seeing a lot more of Stephanie Cutter, though, whom CNN has hired as its newest political commentator. Cutter previously was Barack Obama’s deputy campaign manager, so she has a lot of inside information about the president. She apparently knows a lot about former IRS commissioner Doug Shulman as well; enough, at least, to know his 150+ visits to the White House were anything but nefarious.

Stephanie Cutter on CNN says she was in many meetings with Doug Shulman, so there was 'nothing nefarious.' Feel better?

— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) May 31, 2013

No, we can’t say that makes us feel any better. Our memories of Cutter on CNN include her being called out by hosts Erin Burnett and Piers Morgan on her fib about Mitt Romney’s tax cut plan. She also didn’t know anything about Joe “Romney gave my wife cancer” Soptic, despite having spoken with him on an OFA conference call. Tapper himself gave her some heat for that one, but now that they’re co-workers and the campaign is in the rear view mirror, it’s nothing but the truth from here on out, right? And if she has answers about the IRS scandal, we’ve got plenty of questions.

https://twitter.com/MargieMastran/status/340569686980820992

@stefcutter is telling us the facts about Shulman's meetings in the WH. Write this down. <eye roll>

— Bob ن (@BobHicks_) May 31, 2013

On Jake Tappers show, Stephanie Cutter said 157 entries into WH doesn't confirm Stephen Shulman had meetings. hmmm. What then?

— Betsy Wang (@mktldy10) May 31, 2013