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IRS chief: I’ve never spoken to Lois Lerner
washington times ^ | 5/23/16 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 05/23/2016 1:49:24 PM PDT by Nachum

RS Commissioner John Koskinen has declined to testify in his own defense at a congressional hearing Tuesday, but insisted in a statement that his bungling of a subpoena doesn’t rise to the level of “treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors” needed for him to be impeached.

The Judiciary Committee hearing is being viewed by some House Republicans as the precursor to impeachment, with the House’s top investigator saying Mr. Koskinen defied a congressional subpoena that demanded all of former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner’s emails be preserved as part of the investigation into tea party targeting.

But Mr. Koskinen, who said his schedule is too crowded for him to be able to appear on Tuesday, said the allegations against him are “unwarranted,” and no matter what, they don’t rise to the level of impeachment.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoirs; chief; contemptofcongress; demlies; irs; irsimpeachment; irsscandals; johnkoskinen; koskinen; lerner; loislerner
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To: NEMDF

It that was you or me, we would be sitting in jail to be brought out to testify with a nice suit on and a leg iron under our nice trousers, to make sure we were there. Come on Congress, time to make a big time example out of about 10 of these crooks.


41 posted on 05/23/2016 3:34:04 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Nachum

This sounds like satire. This guy has no fears whatsoever and why should he? He made fools out of Issa’s committee and he knows they’ll never touch him.


42 posted on 05/23/2016 3:41:53 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: Nachum

insisted in a statement that his bungling of a subpoena doesn’t rise to the level of “treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors”

He should be Impeachedjust for making this ridiculous statement, CONGRESS is the Sole Authority on what defines an “Impeachable” offense.

They could declare having brown eyes a “High Crime” and remove your quisling POS butt from office, hell they should find you in Contempt and JAIL YOUR SORRY ASS.


43 posted on 05/23/2016 3:42:47 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Nachum
Barack Obama: "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... And that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game." Rod Blagojevich photo: Rod Blagojevich and Obama obama_blagojevich_file.jpg Democrats are liars. Period. Of course, Democrats will respond, "He wasn't actually looking at him in that photo."
44 posted on 05/23/2016 3:47:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Nachum

This guy should be right up there on everyone’s list when the SFHTF.


45 posted on 05/23/2016 3:51:41 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: Ann Archy

Good for you,Ann Archy!!!


46 posted on 05/23/2016 3:57:51 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: Nachum

Did I mention that I’m the queen of England?

5.56mm


47 posted on 05/23/2016 4:05:07 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Nachum
But Mr. Koskinen, who said his schedule is too crowded for him to be able to appear on Tuesday

Utter BS, I've worked at many govt. agencies and they jump when Congress calls. Thumbing his nose at Congress should be enough to get the little twerp impeached.
48 posted on 05/23/2016 4:21:51 PM PDT by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: Nachum

Wow, a Washington Weasel if I’ve ever seen one!


49 posted on 05/23/2016 4:24:25 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Nachum

Impeach him on principle, sully his reputation for all of history.


50 posted on 05/23/2016 4:26:44 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Nachum
In June 2014, Koskinen informed Congress that 30,000 emails from the account of a central figure in the scandal, Lois Lerner, had been lost
and
At the Tuesday afternoon news conference in which she attempted to dismiss concerns about her use of a private email system for official business, Clinton revealed she deleted about 30,000 messages.

Interesting that the Dems are hung up on 30,000.
51 posted on 05/23/2016 4:32:37 PM PDT by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: jonno

K lies better than any rug I’ve ever had or seen.
Lerner was his student. She passed with flying colors.

They are a disgrace to those IRS workers who are honest and competent, but then again, in the Democrat administrations, it is the crooks, commies, crazies and incompetents who rise to the top like a hot turd in the toilet that DC is.


52 posted on 05/23/2016 4:41:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: NEMDF

Right. He should be given a choice. Spill the beans or forfeit the pension.


53 posted on 05/23/2016 5:48:18 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Nachum

That arrogant corruptocrat needs to be impeached just to wipe the unprepossessing smirk off his face.


54 posted on 05/23/2016 6:06:09 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: drypowder

At the Philadelphia Convention, Benjamin Franklin noted that, historically, the removal of “obnoxious” chief executives had been accomplished by assassination. Franklin suggested that a proceduralized mechanism for removal—impeachment—would be preferable.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States


55 posted on 05/23/2016 10:37:28 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: Nachum

Lois has a blue dress and it has Koskinen slime all over it.


56 posted on 05/24/2016 1:12:13 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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