DOJ Working With Elijah Cummings To Protect The IRS

Investors.com ^ | September 11, 2014 | IBD Editorial

[jazusamo]

IRS: An aide to the attorney general accidentally calls the office of the House Oversight Committee chairman, asking for help in spinning the defense of the agency whose head just said they obey the law when they can.

We have commented many times of the all-too-cozy relationship between the IRS and Democratic members of the House and Senate, with members writing to the agency demanding that specific conservative groups and political action committees they find particularly irritating be subject to the "special scrutiny" that the Tea Party and other conservative and religious groups were subjected to in the ongoing scandal.

Of particular interest to us has been Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member on Rep. Darrell Issa's House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, who has made every effort to keep the committee from finding out the true extent of IRS corruption and abuse of power in its targeting of conservatives.

As we've noted, emails released by Issa, a California Republican, show that Cummings' Democratic staff had requested information from the IRS' tax-exempt division, the one headed by Lois Lerner, on True the Vote, a conservative group that monitors polling places for voter fraud and supports the use of voter IDs, something that Cummings opposes.

"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," the Oversight panel said in a statement.

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 later, True the Vote received an almost identical request for information from the IRS.

[freeangel]

He’s working to protect his own black butt since rumors have it that HE is the one who told Lerner to go after certain groups/people.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’d love to see Cummings in the slam.

[skinkinthegrass]

why? aren't there any penalties for these activities?
if a conservative had done this,the Marxist would have gone apesh¡t. 😠

[GOPJ]

Get your friends and family to help vote Democrats out of office...

[raptor22]

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[kaehurowing]

We need enough members of Congress to declare the Democrat Party illegal.

[raptor22]

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[GOPJ]

We just need to outvote them...

[freekitty]

What is this guy doing on the Benghazi panel?

[dware]

The IRS is toast...and good riddance.

Lol. I doubt that. The IRS has survived a number of R majorities, including 2000-2006. It won't be any different this time.