The IRS Scandal, Day 922

The Hill, Republicans to Grill Lynch on Paris, IRS:

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is set to face tough questions from lawmakers Tuesday about the Justice Department’s role on issues ranging from the IRS to the response to the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Republicans will put Lynch on the hot seat during her first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee since replacing Eric Holder as head of the Justice Department. Her scheduled appearance last month was canceled because she was sick. ...

The GOP’s often tumultuous relationship with Holder could extend to Lynch after the DOJ elected last month not to prosecute Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official accused of targeting the Tea Party. 

"She has a lot to answer for,” Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told The Hill. 

"Everything from Lois Lerner and the IRS, to what’s happening with emails, to how they’re operating at the Department of Justice,” he said in an interview before her first scheduled hearing. "There’s such a wide swath of issues they’re involved with."

The DOJ’s abrupt end to its two-year probe of the IRS angered many Republicans, including previous Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) who accused Lynch of “white washing” the investigation.

“There are some obvious [questions],” Issa told The Hill last month. “Why they saw no violation at the IRS? Why they could close it out completely without any support for the [inspector general’s] recommendations?"

Issa said he has no intention of taking it easy on Lynch: “After she dismissed and white washed the investigation? Why?” he asked. “I think she made a grievous error.”

“She has to own that,” he added.

Goodlatte also (R-Va.) criticized the DOJ for dropping the investigation: “At every turn President Obama and administration officials have repeatedly and publicly undermined the investigation into the IRS’s targetting of conservative groups,” he said in a statement.

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