Well yes, of course I am a liar. What are you gonna do about it?
I would like nothing better than to see this guy go to jail. I hope this group of reps means biz.
Posted on 07/28/2015 4:57:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A group of House Republican lawmakers called for the ouster of IRS commissioner John Koskinen on Monday, and expressed a willingness to impeach him if he couldn’t be forced from office by other means. The call for Koskinen’s removal comes in the midst of an ongoing investigation into the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of Tea Party groups — an investigation in which Koskinen and other officials at the tax-collecting agency have been accused of stonewalling Congress.
“Mr. Koskinen should no longer be the IRS Commissioner,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) said in a statement. “At best, Commissioner Koskinen was derelict in his duties to preserve agency records. At worst, he and the IRS engaged in an orchestrated plan to hide information from Congress. Given Commissioner Koskinen’s obfuscation and misleading statements to Congress, and the false claims that key evidence was permanently destroyed, the result has been an unnecessarily protracted investigation. More importantly though, the American people will never know all the facts surrounding the agency’s targeting of conservative tax-exempt 501(c)(4) groups.”
President Obama appointed Koskinen with the promise that he would display “the absolute integrity Americans demand from those in public service,” but Republican lawmakers have grown frustrated with the IRS’s failure to produce documents sought in the House investigation during his tenure. In 2014, Koskinen promised to produce all of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails, without revealing that the agency already knew that her hard drive had crashed. A Treasury Department inspector general told Congress last month that the IRS destroyed her damaged hard drive without exhausting every means of obtaining her data. The backups of her hard drive were also destroyed.
“[Investigators] took possession of the 424 backup tapes and determined that 422 of the 424 tapes were degaussed (i.e., magnetically erased) by IRS employees in Martinsburg on or around March 4, 2014, one month after the IRS realized they were missing e-mails from Lois Lerner, and approximately eight months after the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested ‘all documents and communications sent by, received by, or copied to Lois Lerner,’” the inspector general found.
Chaffetz is calling on Obama to fire Koskinen, but House Republicans have been discussing the possibility of impeaching the agency head for months, as National Review reported in June.
“Mr. Koskinen failed in his duty to preserve and produce documentation to this Committee,” Chaffetz said. “The IRS failed to comply with a congressional subpoena. The IRS further failed by making false statements to Congress. We will pursue all constitutional remedies at our disposal, including potential contempt proceedings or perhaps impeachment of Commissioner Koskinen.”
— Joel Gehrke is a political reporter for National Review.
potential, and rare, gonad sighting........key words being potential...AND rare...
Wake me up when someone actually takes some action on this. I like the rhetoric but,,we’ve been down this road before.
Nothing of substance will happen because this
began with McCain and the GOP.
Nothing.
But, they all belong in prison,
starting with Issa and Cummings for encouraging it.
John Koskinen is going to be smirking at us for a long time.
His smirk is much safer than my job.
I think I was properly circumspect.......but it still takes some gonads to even be out in front on this....whether or not anything comes of it.
“A group of House Republican lawmakers called for the ouster of IRS commissioner John Koskinen”
Does this group include Boehner? Didn’t think so.
> “Mr. Koskinen should no longer be the IRS Commissioner,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) said in a statement. “At best, Commissioner Koskinen was derelict in his duties to preserve agency records. At worst, he and the IRS engaged in an orchestrated plan to hide information from Congress. Given Commissioner Koskinen’s obfuscation and misleading statements to Congress, and the false claims that key evidence was permanently destroyed, the result has been an unnecessarily protracted investigation. More importantly though, the American people will never know all the facts surrounding the agency’s targeting of conservative tax-exempt 501(c)(4) groups.”
Hell I bet they were complicit.
Well yes, of course I am a liar. What are you gonna do about it?
I would like nothing better than to see this guy go to jail. I hope this group of reps means biz.
if he goes it’s purely symbolic.
he’ll keep all his benefits.
no criminal/civil prosecution
bfd
and no action will be taken against the underlings.
Blah, blah, blah.
He who laughs last. . .
"Your so-called power isn't worth a bucket of warm spit."
This beady-eyed bastard was recruited by Obama to lie and obfuscate. The Chaffetz letter will be paper airplanes by lunch time.
There will be no difference if the guy were to resign (which he won't), the media says it's not a scandal, the bamster says not a whiff of scandal, so nothing will be done.
It's the thousands of stories like this that make me despise the attitude of those who said we should let the bamster stay in office.
So true...his arrogance, that of Miller and Lerner too....it was, like the Nuremberg trials, the banality of arrogance and evil on display.
After our case was finally dismissed, with the help of our GOP congress critter I might add, I then asked if there was a way to put all these people in prison.
The sad reply was they can make requests, but it's the DOJ that decides. The DOJ and the IRS are filled with people, 99% of which are totalitarian leftist shills. Funny, we never heard what they decided.............imagine that.......
....all true, but let's not forget arrogantly untouchable, and knows it.....
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