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White House denial of IRS abuse is getting pretty pathetic

By Herman Cain ——--July 28, 2015

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It's not even controversial anymore to point out that the IRS routinely targeted and harassed conservative groups seeking nonprofit status. However many Lois Lerner e-mails may have been destroyed, what we've already seen - combined with the testimony from the conservative groups themselves - clearly demonstrates that the IRS made it a point of giving conservative groups a difficult time.
And no one with a brain in their head can seriously doubt this was done because elected Democrats - whether in the White House, in Congress or both - wanted it done. So it's worth asking how President Obama could possibly think he could still get away with just pretending it never happened, as he does in this interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show: Democrats in Washington have always figured they could pull crap like this within the bowels of the federal government because the media would keep things on the QT. The DC media culture sees stuff like that as "just how things work in this town" and doesn't treat it as a big deal. What Democrats weren't prepared for was the emergence of conservative/alternative media that will think these abuses are a big deal, and will make them known to the public. And that's especially powerful when Republicans control Congress and you get aggressive committee chairman like Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz who will launch real investigations. And Chaffetz is quite rightly out for the blood of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen:
Koskinen, Chaffetz charged, failed to produce documents as requested under congressional subpoena and made false statements to Congress regarding emails from the former head of the Exempt Organizations Unit that critics say unfairly targeted conservative groups in the 2012 elections. About 24,000 emails are missing, the Oversight chairman contends. "Mr. Koskinen should no longer be the IRS commissioner," Chaffetz said Monday. "We have asked the president to remove Mr. Koskinen from office." If Koskinen remains, Chaffetz says he will pursue "all constitutional remedies at our disposal," including seeking a charge of contempt of Congress or impeaching him from office. The Oversight Committee has been probing actions of ex-IRS employee Lois Lerner who is accused of zealously questioning conservative groups on their tax status. The IRS says many of her emails were lost and backup tapes were erroneously erased. Chaffetz says Koskinen must be held accountable for destroyed records, which means "the American people will never know all the facts surrounding the agency's targeting of conservative" tax-exempt groups. "At best, Commissioner Koskinen was derelict in his duties to preserve agency records," Chaffetz says. "At worst, he and the IRS engaged in an orchestrated plan to hide information from Congress."

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