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Saturday, September 24, 2016

The IRS Scandal, Day 1234

IRS Logo 2Hot Air, The IRS Chief’s Meeting With the Judiciary Committee Didn’t Go Particularly Well:

You may recall that only a week ago the House decided to postpone an impeachment vote for IRS commissioner John Koskinen in favor of holding hearings instead. This clearly distressed a number of conservatives who feel that the mismanagement of the agency and its various scandals were more than sufficient grounds to give the man his walking papers. Still, the hearings were bound to produce some fireworks and the first round certainly didn’t disappoint. Today I wanted to hit a few of the highlights.

Right out of the gate, Koskinen was asked about previous statements he’d made under oath regarding the preservation and recovery of emails and other documents from the entire Lois Lerner affair. When pressed on the subject, the commissioner didn’t exactly say that he’d lied about it, but did admit that some of the things he said turned out not to be true. ...

I suppose that comes down to the age old question of whether you lied or you were simply wrong about something. That’s a question which the committee (and the public) will have to answer for themselves.

There was another question raised concerning the IRS employees who were found to have deleted all of those Lois Lerner emails. Surely these are the culprits we’re looking for here. I imagine they must be cooling their heels in jail by now or at least awaiting trial, right? Nope. Turns out that they are both still on the IRS payroll… just in a different department....

Don’t even get me started on that entire saga again. We’ve written about it here extensively and the idea that someone in that department could have been “unaware” of the maelstrom surrounding their office is beyond the pale. But as long as the stonewall continues, there doesn’t seem to be much that anyone can do about it… short of impeaching the boss. Yet when he was asked about the rather, er… suspicious timing of all those records being destroyed, Koskinen didn’t have much of an answer.

 

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Comments

Out and out obstruction of justice. Of course the Obama DOJ will do nothing. How far we've fallen from the standards established after the Watergate crisis. It is ASTONISHING that the mainstream media is not in the least interested in this. Remember Woodward and Bernstein? Remember the valiant fight put up by the Washington Post and NY Times against Nixon's people stonewalling? Remember Judge John (Maximum John) Sirica putting the buglers in jail until McCord finally talked? Remember Nixon erasing eighteen and a half minutes of tape? Remember the outcry? Wow! Where has all that gone?

Posted by: VoteOutIncumbents | Sep 24, 2016 7:58:02 AM