I'm a little worried about that statement.
Is there a statute of limitations on criminal acts while in elected, appointed or hired for federal employment?
Were the charges related to Watergate also filed after President Nixon left office?
Sorry, I didn't keep track of the Watergate thing, being objectively very minor; nobody died.
The panoply of Baraq Hussein regime's crimes are several orders of magnitude greater than Watergate, with deaths of citizens all over the place!
I don’t think there is any problem with the statute of limitations. For most crimes, I think it is at least four years from the time the crime is discovered but any effort to conceal or cover up a crime becomes a new offense which is often more serious than the original crime.
The most likely obstacle would be the traditional reluctance to criminalize political disagreements or for a new administration to go after the last. Since the IRS was set up to be a non political agency with only around three political appointees, I don’t think there would be this normal hesitation by a new administration to go after career people who crossed the line into political activity. If career civil servants go down, they will not likely go alone.
We can only hope the congressional committees do not get discouraged by the delay, as many of us do, and will pursue this into a new administration in 2016. Prosecution can not take place without the Justice Department and under Attorney General Holder, that will not be done.