Posted on 05/08/2014 4:29:08 PM PDT by Nachum
Less than a day after former IRS official Lois Lerner was found in criminal contempt of Congress, her old agency has agreed to turn over copies of all her emails and other correspondence to one of the Republican-led House committees investigating the scandal that led to her retirement. The agency´s quick concession came after Wednesday night´s 231-178 contempt vote, which closely followed the passage of a second resolution demanding the appointment of a nonpartisan ´special counsel´ at the Department of Justice. Lerner has twice refused to answer questions in congressional hearings after lawmakers issued a subpoena for her appearance. ´This
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From the Clinton scandals in the 1990s, we know that his team of crooks PAID OFF witnesses (like Monica Lewinsky with an offer of a six figure job at Revlon via Vernon Jordan who was on the board of directors, and Ronald Perlman was a Clintonista) to lie under oath and then there were the threats and intimidations (dead cats, slashed tires, etc).
We know from several of the scandals (EPA, I don't recall if we've seen it in the IRS scandal yet) that the Obama administration is using "private email accounts" of the type you get from yahoo, google, etc to engage in criminal conspiracy and to violate open records acts and freedom of information requests.
Here's the rub. The IRS has no way of knowing what the House already has - if they say they're providing everything, but omit one that House already got by other means, the feces will really hit the fan.
It’s a start. Bottom line is that people have committed crimes and need to face justice.
A lot of people in the IRS and Justice Department aren't so clean as you think. Often they leave for private practice giving tax advice and legal counsel to those engaged in shady business practices including the mob. And in some cases (notably in dealing with the mob) they pull strings in the Justice Department to get overzealous investigators pulled off of cases.
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