Posted on 07/18/2013 6:40:25 AM PDT by don-o
House Republicans plan to ratchet up scrutiny of the IRS during a hearing Thursday morning where agency workers are expected to discuss the involvement of high-level officials in slowing down applications from Tea Party groups.
For the first time, the House oversight committee has invited two key agency officials to testify. Republican leaders of the committee claimed Wednesday that one of them recently revealed that the IRS chief counsel's office -- led by a political appointee -- played a role, along with embattled IRS official Lois Lerner, in scrutinizing conservative groups.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the committee, told Fox News that agency officials in Cincinnati were taking their orders from Washington, and that the investigation needs to look next at both Lerner and the counsel's office.
"As a part of this ongoing investigation, the committees have learned that the IRS Chief Counsel's office in Washington, D.C. has been closely involved in some of the applications," Issa and other Republicans wrote in a letter to IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel.
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None of these pencil pushers had direct contact with WH...go figure. WH running show through bigger heads.
Issa and Cummings being brats. Aarrggghhh..
Mr. Turner taking Mr. Cummings to task about what they know...did Obama have lunch yesterday? Well you weren’t there, but you know he had lunch...
Issa smacks down one Cummings red herring - No one has claimed this leads to WH.
Today we have established that it does lead to Washington.
BOOM!
What hand?
What cookie?
Issa says facts now show the trail leads to Washington. keeps adding, though, that he has never implicated Obama.
Rep. Turner - Says Liz and Carter don’t know whether Obama had lunch yesterday, even though we know he DID have lunch......Cummings asking whether Liz or Carter know if Obama had any involvement in this process is stupid. (stupid is my word). They can’t know that.
LOL...I am just waiting on Gowdy. Waiting on Godot so to speak.
So I can go back to calling Issa a DC Gossip Columnist again?
But Cummings knows it leads to///////// WH or he wouldn’t be setting up so many road blocks.
I’m on my phone, can’t watch... is Gowdy there?!? Haven’t seen him in a while......
Seems like those questions should have been asked by now.
Cummings ordered to get “I have no personal knowledge of connection to President...White House” from witnesses.
Issa had already interrupted and said “I never said it went to the President.”
Cummings more or less said, “screw off, they ordered me to give this speech, and I’m not done.”
So your role is Live Thread heckler?
link?
LOL
Now to Mr. Connolly........bathroom break
Obama said he found out about it on the news like most of us did!
Obama: If true, IRS scandal is outrageous
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2378547666001/obama-if-true-irs-scandal-is-outrageous/
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