Gowdy to IRS Commish: How Do You Know No Criminal Act Occurred?

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[IndianaJax]

REP. TREY GOWDY (R-SC): You have already said multiple times today that there was no evidence that you found of any criminal wrongdoing. I want you to tell me what criminal statutes you have evaluated.

JOHN KOSKINEN, IRS COMMISSIONER: I have not looked at any.

GOWDY: Well, how can you possibly tell our fellow citizens that there's not criminal wrongdoing if you don’t even know what statutes to look at?

KOSKINEN: I have seen no evidence that anyone --

GOWDY: Well, how would you know what elements of the crime existed? You don’t even know what statutes are in play. I'm going to ask you again. What statutes have you evaluated?

KOSKINEN: I think you can rely on common sense that nothing I have seen --

GOWDY: Common sense. Instead on the criminal code, you want to rely on common sense? No, Mr. Commissioner, you can shake your head all you want to, Commissioner. You have said today that there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and I am asking you what criminal statutes you have reviewed to reach that conclusion?

KOSKINEN: I reviewed no criminal statutes.

[logitech]

Again,yes.

The IRS and the “regime” don’t give a @#$% what this committee does or says because they are immune to prosecution.

So, in my humble opinion, it is a pre-scripted run of the mill circus side show.

You are entitled to your view, of course.

[eddiespaghetti]

Logi,

My bad.

I thought you meant that it was all Republican posturing in the face of NO wrongdoing by the Obama regime, and that Lerner and her minions were being falsely accused (like the defendants in Stalin’s show trials of the 1930s).

Sorry about that.

[logitech]

Don’t worry aboudit!

I live in MS, so I am pissed and probably come across badly.

If you knew me, there would be no misunderstanding.

[American Constitutionalist]

Gowdy and Louie Gohmert.