Posted on 04/10/2014 9:02:07 AM PDT by servo1969
Back in June of 2013 Elijah Cummings declared the IRS investigation over, despite the continued stonewalling by the Obama administration:
Based upon everything I’ve seen, the case is solved. If it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on, to be frank with you. The IG made some recommendations, those recommendations are being adopted by the IRS, we’ve got a new commissioner in, acting commissioner in, Danny Werfel is doing a great job, I think we’re in great shape.
Last month all of the democrat members of the House Oversight Committee demanded Darryl Issa end the IRS investigation.
Now we know why, and why the next public word out of Cummings’ mouth will be “racism.”
Cummings pushed the IRS to harass True the Vote.
Today Issa released information about communications between the IRS and Cummings vis-à-vis True the Vote:
Issa said records obtained last week from the IRS show communications from the office of ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., about True the Vote, a Texas-based, non-profit conservative group that aims to prevent voter fraud.The communications at one point involved Lois Lerner, the ex-IRS official whom Issa’s panel is poised to hold in contempt of Congress on Thursday for refusing to provide testimony about her involvement in targeting conservative groups.
“The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings’ staff,” a statement from the Oversight panel reads.
According to Issa, Cummings and his staff sought “copies of all training materials used for volunteers, affiliates, or other entities,” from True the Vote.
Five days after the Cummings inquiry, the IRS sent True the Vote an email requesting “a copy of [True the Vote’s] volunteer registration form,” “… the process you use to assign volunteers,” “how you keep your volunteers in teams,” and “how your volunteers are deployed … following the training they receive by you.”
Issa said Cummings and his office asked for more information in January 2013 about True the Vote, this time getting Lerner involved.
At one point, an email revealed, Lerner asked her deputy, “Did we find anything?”
When the deputy said she had not received any new information, Lerner responded, “thanks – check tomorrow please.”
Issa said Cummings had previously denied asking the IRS about True the Vote.
Next thing you know, True the Vote’s Engelbrecht is being harassed by the IRS:
Nonetheless, Engelbrecht’s True the Vote received a letter from the IRS with inquiries that agency officials have testified were unprecedented in scope. Cummings’s letter contained questions that closely mirrored those posed by the IRS, and Issa details them in his letter, strongly implying that one was modeled on the other.In a February hearing, True the Vote’s lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, raised the prospect that the minority staff had exchanged information with the IRS. “We want to get to the bottom of how these coincidences happened,” Mitchell said, “and we’re trying to figure out whether any — if there was any staff on this committee that might have been involved in putting True the Vote on the radar screen of some of these federal agencies.” Cummings said in response that Mitchell’s tacit allegation was “absolutely incorrect and not true.”
“Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, communication records between your staff and IRS officials – which you did not disclose to Majority Members or staff – indicates otherwise,” Issa said. “As the Committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose, in contempt of Congress, you have an obligation to fully explain your staff’s undisclosed contacts with the IRS.”
And not just the IRS. There’s more here and here. Cummings and the IRS and the BATF all but raped Engelbrecht. This was a real war on a woman. This was the very definition of persecution. Since when does your Congressman pay you a personal visit to harass you?
In an email Lois Lerner also suggested the possibility of her getting a job with the DC office of Obama’s Organizing for Action. It’s conjectured that it might have been a joke. Obama also “joked” about using the IRS to audit his enemies.
Lois Lerner has been referred to the Justice Department for prosecution. Make no mistake, this is a Watergate moment.
The legitimacy of the Obama Presidency now rests on the actions of Eric Holder. If he claims the “vast discretion” he spoke of and chooses not to pursue the Lerner referral, it’s over.
It would be time for a Special Prosecutor.
Or, failing that, a rebellion.
Fortunately, the House does not rule out arresting Lerner if the Department of Injustice does not. Criminal acts have been committed and the people’s trust in a government institution has been violated and faith been destroyed.
Eric Holder is without the least shred of integrity. He is thoroughly dishonest. He was put in place to do one thing and that is to protect his boss’s ass from the law. Two years ago I put up a post about the Republican a-holes who voted to confirm this POS. You can see the list here. As much as your anger should be directed at Obama and Holder, it should also be aimed at those idiots. I knew this was coming and they should have. We’re looking at a full blown Constitutional crisis. Nixon had Attorneys General with a conscience. Not so with the man who freed Marc Rich and the FALN terrorists. Conscience has no purchase of Eric Holder and neither does the law.
Should, should, should, but won't be.
No. It isn’t.
Like so many of these things through the administration, this will go nowhere. Sad but true.
Take Back Senate in November—Tea Party People. Hold House—replace Boney with Cruz as Speaker. January, 2015 start the Impeachment of Obama and Biden. Toss em out—Ted Cruz will be President until January 2017. Sounds like a Plan.
If Lerner was smart, at the first question about who told her to do what she should have said “Mr Cummings”
THAT would have been quite a circus
Wish they would just pull him off the stage there in Austin!
“Or, failing that, a rebellion”
Sadly thats whats coming. The GOP ain’t gonna save the republic.
This is not a Watergate moment. To call it that requires that there be some potential for serious repercussions to Obama, Holder,et al.
There are not. The media will not turn on Obama under any circumstances. Period.
The Republicans pass some pissant resolution, BFD. Holder won’t arrest her, congress can’t arrest her without the use of literal force & they just don’t have the guts to force a genuine Constitutional crisis confrontation by doing that. Also, to arrest Lerner over Holder’s refusal would essentially mean that Holder broke the law and should also be arrested. They will not open that little box of goodies.
The problem with the Republicans in congress is that some of them are as corrupt as the Democrats, and the rest are in complete denial in thinking this can be properly dealt with by anything short of a full blown Constitutional crisis. I mean the type of crisis(es) that preceded the War Between the Sates. It has now reached the point that anything less than ALL is really NOTHING.
If the House doesn’t bring in LE and physically arrest & detain Lerner, then we will have had our Hitler / Czechoslovakia moment. A green light for the despot and no options after this but complete capitulation or full blown conflict. With congress it will be capitulation, leaving the people as the only hope and with only one option for them to pursue. With 55% sucking the government teat and a large percentage blissfully unaware of the whole thing, where does that leave the country?
I'm old enough to remember Watergate.
I won't offer a defense of Nixon as a president, it's not relevant.
However, after the 1972 landslide I have no doubt the media and the left (but I repeat myself) were livid, and were going to stop at nothing to take him down.
Pull cummings off the committee panel tables and put him right onto the witness stand and under oath...
The real Watergate occurred at a moment of time when their were old lions in DC with a shred of honor. such times are long past. the only reason Nixon resigned was that old sages in the GOP told him it was over and time to go. Such sentiments of honor are literally unknown in the Communist Party.
He ain’t going now, he ain’t going soon, I have my doubts he will ever go.
>This is treason and should be dealt as such.<
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Ah, how romantic!
BTTT!
Not a Watergate moment IMHO. Just time for Obama to decide that it’s more heat than he wants to deal with, the golf course is calling. Time to resign, let Biden have some fun as president so he keeps his mouth shut, and Biden appoints Hillary as VP. All part of their backup plan.
If he claims the “vast discretion” he spoke of and chooses not to pursue the Lerner referral, it’s over.
It would be time for a Special Prosecutor.
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The problem is: Who appoints the Special Proecutor? Answer: The President. Fuhgedaboutit!
One :60 commercial with Engelbrecht testifying to her treatment by the Democrats would completely undo the "War On Women" meme.
Is the GOP-e smart enough to do this? Probably not, because Engelbrecht is a Tea Partier and, therefore, persona non grata to the establishment.
The problem is: Who appoints the Special Proecutor? Answer: The President. Fuhgedaboutit!
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I will ‘never’ forget the bumper sticker after R. M. Nixon relieved the Special Prosecutor he appointed, Archibald Cox.
The sticker....
IMPEACH THE COX SACKER!!!!
LOL.... That is awesome. I don’t remember that bumper sticker.
You need 67 Senators. You do not have 10.
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