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The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.
A spokesman for Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, said they were asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) “to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations.”
The inspector general’s audit found that groups seeking tax-exempt status with “Tea Party” and “patriots” in their name did receive extra attention from the IRS, with some facing years of delay and inappropriate questions from the agency.
But top congressional Democrats have wielded new information from the IRS this week that liberal groups were also flagged for extra attention on the sorts of “be on the lookout” lists (BOLOs) that also tripped up conservative groups.
The spokesman for the Treasury inspector general noted their audit acknowledged there were other watch lists. But the spokesman added: “We did not review the use, disposition, purpose or content of the other BOLOs. That was outside the scope of our audit.”
The admission from the inspector general comes as Democrats have sharpened their criticism of George, with Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) dubbing the audit fundamentally flawed on Monday.
Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, stressed to The Hill on Tuesday that the inspector general did not say the audit was limited to Tea Party groups when it was released in mid-May.
The Michigan Democrat also maintained that the audit’s shortcoming had emboldened Republicans to try to link the targeting of Tea Party groups to the White House.
“You need to get at the facts. And those facts weren’t given to us, even when asked,” Levin said. “The Republicans used the failure of the IG to spell out what they knew as an opportunity to totally politicize this.”
Issa knew at the get go that there was no scandal, so he purposefully tried to create one, JUST like he did with Fast and Furious, and just like he did with the Benghazi investigation.
The man is a putrid piece of shit and he needs to be impeached NOW! (Okay I got a little carried away and forgot that Senators cannot be impeached. So with that in mind I think the only reasonable alternative is to have Issa face a firing squad after being found guilty of treason. How does that sound?)
Unfortunately, members of the House (and Senate) cannot be impeached.
ReplyDeleteHe should be censured! Even that is too light for the crap he's pulled...
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Oh, I'm shocked, just shocked, I tell ya. Not. Does anyone really believe he acted alone in this intent? And keep in mind, as to all other so-called Congressional investigations that involve classified information (such as Benghazi, the 'investigation' of journalists, NSA, etc.), keeping their oath of office not to disclose classified materials precludes any democrats on these committees from revealing similar Republican one-sidedness.
ReplyDeleteI just read the definition of knave.
ReplyDeleteknave: a dishonest or unscrupulous man.
Darrell is sa Knave.
You are so very WRONG!
ReplyDeleteWho is wrong? And why? Facts, please.
DeleteWrong about what? Are you referring to Jesse?
DeleteWho is so very WRONG and why?
DeleteOOPS!
DeleteSorry. I guess I clicked on "Comment" instead of reply when I wrote this. I was intending to say that Jerry Critter (the very first commenter n this thread) was so very wrong about Congressman not being impeachable!
Oops again.
DeleteI meant to say that they CAN be removed from office by the Senate with a 2/3's vote of those present. It takes some serious "charges" to accomplish it, but they can be removed.
I got mixed up between the actual definition of impeach and the "understood" meaning. Sorry.
Still, it essentially means this idiot cannot be removed through procedure since we all know the repubes aren't going to vote to expel him even if he IS an asshole.
he will forever be the 'boy who cried wolf' with his fake scandals.
ReplyDeleteHi testicles should be removed from his body with a dull spoon, and forcibly inserted into his rectum.
ReplyDeleteOoh, better!
DeleteGee, Hugh G,
DeleteYou're such a sensitive Ghandi-tard pacifist. Cutting his nut sac open will yield the same thing that Geraldo found in Al Capone's hide-out. Nada. No tea for this bagger.
Ethics investigation,anyone? We know he LOVES hearings.
ReplyDeleteA vote to censure by his peers in the house might result in his constituents dumping him for a more moderate Republican whooght actually work among members of both parties. Anyone not favoring censure would be lining up with the extreme right fringe. If the two houses of Congress can't hold themselves accountable to one another, then they can't work together for all Americans. The best time to do this is now, in an off year, when it is less a political matter than one to reform the body of Congress. If only the baggers support him, he cannot maintain power. Surely this is something that Democrats and Republicans (and true Libertarians) can agree on. When we catch a crook red-handed, abusing power and privilege for partisan reasons only, he needs to be de-nutted of any power over a committee. Period.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is that Republicans will never turn on Republicans.
DeleteBeaglemom
Now why the FUCK isn't the Mainstream Media screaming this from the rooftops?
ReplyDelete...liberal media bias my ASS.
Well, of course it does.
ReplyDeleteIs no one aware of this guy's standard operating procedure? Did no one suspect when he refused to release ALL of the documents?
Issa is an Assa. I really wish someone would take him on and put him on the unemployment line. Huge embarrassment to my state.
Thief. Liar. Arsonist.
Our tax dollars at work!
ReplyDeleteThe fish stinks from the head, where's the outrage from Congress, Boehner, etc. etc.?
WhiteHouse.gov, there's a petition there to get rid of Issa
ReplyDeleteIssa is a piece of shit
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