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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This video has much better sound than the previous one.
Rep. Gowdy ‘fascinated’ by the Everchanging Defense in the IRS Scandal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9p1eSFLos
Panel is back with Russell George (IG) Michael McCarthy (consul) Gregory Kuntz (IG)
This new panel will be raw meat for Goudy. This is what he held back for in the first round.
true true!
Yep..Gowdy is gonna have fun this afternoon! A must see.
thanks!
Looking forward to more from Gowdy, Chaffetz, and Jordan!
Post 432 and 473 - videos
George just called Cummings a lair.
And again!
Tearing the Dems statements down one by one.
“And again!”
Maybe Cummings should be frogmarched into a cell too! Great smack down of the nigga(I can say that ‘cause there’s no “r” on the end of it and Rachael says it’s not racist).
George is pi$$ed. George H W Bush administration.
It seems the hearings are now on cspan 3
Many people don’t get c-span 3 on tv.
Watergate was on MSM all day long.
I well remember the Watergate hearings.
I just wanted to inform everyone that these are now on TV, whereas earlier today, they were not on TV.
thanks! I understand.
Interesting that Cummings is addressing a comment Werfel made regarding 6103.
Werfel is a hack of the dem machine.
Mr. Cumming is very sensitive to words....didn’t like boy, likes willy nilly less. Suppose he hears something racist is willy or nilly.
LOL, The IG is reluctant to trust willy nilly unnamed persons. HE knows NO ONE is responsible and nobody knows’nothin’.
Just a new appointee by the WH to continue the criminal IRS activity.
just tuning in,,,,anything exciting happen at the hearings?????
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