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Posted on 07/29/2015 7:43:55 PM PDT by Isara
WASHINGTON–It’s been two years since the IRS targeting scandal broke, but Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, said on Thursday they’re still looking for answers.
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, chaired by Cruz, on Wednesday questioned IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about the agency’s cooperation with investigations, and rehashed accusations of a White House conspiracy to target conservative groups.
“The American people have a right to be angry when an instrument of the american government is used a partisan cudgel,” said Cruz, a 2016 presidential candidate running on abolishing the IRS. “I have to say, Richard Nixon’s ghost must have been smiling.”
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Koskinen said Thursday the initial targeting was “totally inappropriate, it shouldn’t have happened, and it shouldn’t happen again.”
Koskinen insisted he’s has done his best to comply with Congressional investigations and told the truth as he knew it during Congressional testimony. He also said the IRS has turned over 1.3 million documents, and that staff had testified before Congress around 30 times and sat for 52 interviews.
Koskinen also said the agency audits 1 million people each year, none of which for political reasons.
“Some will be Democrats. Some will be Republicans. Some will go to church. Some won’t, and none of it makes any difference,” he said.
Democrats pushed back on Cruz’s accusation of a White House conspiracy .
“These are very serious allegations. There are also unfounded allegations,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., the subcommittee’s chief Democrat.
While some Democrats said the initial IRS targeting was wrong, they claimed they problem was born from the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. FEC, which unleashed a flood of outside money.
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Citizens United left the “IRS to stand in the place of the Federal Election Commission,” said Coons.
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I dunno. These guys (and I like Cruz), always seem to be so great while they are running for president...
Damn, Cruz is a one man wrecking ball! I hope he is pacing himself.
Ted Cruz Ping! >>He also said the IRS has turned over 1.3 million documents, and that staff had testified before Congress around 30 times and sat for 52 interviews.<<
Overcompliance is an old and trusted way to avoid accountability. Just bury the requesters with crap until they fold, all the time slipping the halo on over your head with wide-eyed innocent protestations of “but we gave them everything!”
I wish I could advise Cruz — I know how to forensically analyze data to convert them into information.
These people should get the lion killer treatment.
That is of immense value. I hope you have let the Cruz team know you are willing to help them out.
>>That is of immense value. I hope you have let the Cruz team know you are willing to help them out.<<
I am just another voice in the crowd. I have offered but I am pretty sure he (or his staffers) see me as just some dude. Lost as the chaff within the wheat.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. They may yet come to their senses.
Fire the tool He’s weird.
Fire the tool He’s weird.
Fire the tool He’s weird.
Koskinen turns 76 today(born 7/30/39).
Notice he served as:
“and then later President Clinton’s Chair of the President’s Council on Y2K, 2000 Conversion, the Year 2000 problem. “
But, he is ignorant about computers.
Riiiiiight.
Cruz has been this way from the get-go.
Koskinen should be under indictment for lying about e mails etc
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