[Uncle Chip]

“I am unaware of it,” said Inspector General J. Russell George. “This is the first I’ve heard this.”

Riiiiiiggghhhtttt!!!!

So is Issa conducting an audit or an investigation???

[Liz]

Shulman was listed as visiting the WH 118 times----told Issa'a committee he went to the WH Easter Egg roll. (Snicker) nice to know the WH celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ all year-long, isn't it?

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I think Issa is well-intentioned but he's in over his head on these issues. It took Cong Trey Gowdy to point out the fallacy of Lerner's asserting her innocence THEN taking the Fifth. Issa was left hanging in the wind.

Issa may be a good businessman---he made millions w/ his car burglar alarm system----but he's not equipped to argue the critical legal issues that arise here.

[raybbr]

Someone like this with this much power?

IRS Subject Matter Expert

Holly Paz
Manager
Exempt Organizations Guidance

Holly is a manager in Exempt Organizations’ Guidance office, which is responsible for drafting notices, announcements, revenue procedures, and other guidance on exempt organization matters. Holly’s work often involves coordination with the Office of Chief Counsel and the Treasury Department on legislative and technical issues, as well as providing information to the tax writing committees of Congress.

Before coming to Exempt Organizations, Holly served as an attorney-advisor in the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent organization within the Internal Revenue Service that helps taxpayers resolve problems with the IRS. She also worked for eight years as an attorney in private practice focusing on exempt organizations issues. She earned her juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

[Rapscallion]

IRS is unworty of Americas trust with the enforcement mission of Obamacare. There are and will always be questions of trust neutrality non-partisanship competence privacy unauthorized access and much worse. IRS has record of political abuse going back to the 1960s under Democrat Lyndon Johnson...nothing seems have fixed the IRS defects in fifty years.

[elpadre]

I suspect this is protocol for all IG audits and investigations issued from the WH.

They need to check all IG reports from all agencies. This is how fascist leaders do business so as to maintain and increase absolute control..

[popdonnelly]

How are they supposed to give candid answers with their boss sitting there?

[Pilsner]

Wow. BO's Administration is so dirty that even Elijah Cummings has, if only for a question or two, stopped obstructing the investigation and tried to advance it. I never thought I would see that.

[Texas Fossil]

House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) read testimony from Paz. Issa said Paz claimed the IG auditors left the room for a short time at the end of each interview so investigators could ask any additional questions.

I thought they "said" it was an "audit" not an investigation. She is quoted here as calling them investigators.

[narses]

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[liberalh8ter]

Until people start having handcuffs slapped on them and face the threat of real prosecution and jail time, this is as Obama likes to say, ‘a sideshow’.

[Colonel_Flagg]

“The operative word, Mr. Chairman, is audit,” said George. “It was not conducted as an investigation.”

Like IRS audits aren't conducted like investigations?

[Travis McGee]

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