Chaffetz: "We have everything from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, which is really one of the critical things. There was the investigation into the IRS. And one that was more than seven years old is Fast and Furious. I mean, we have been in court trying to pry those documents out of the Department of Justice and still to this day, they will not give us those documents. And at the State Department, nothing. Stone-cold silence."
Attkisson: "To what do you attribute that?"
Chaffetz: "I think if we went to the senior-most people, even the president himself, they would be pulling their hair out and they would hate to hear that but within the bowels of the organization, they just seem to circle the wagons and think, 'Oh we can just wait you out. We can just wait you out.'"
Attkisson: "Well they, they do."
Chaffetz: "They do."
Attkisson: "Republicans were very upset in the last few years over the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, who they said allowed destruction of documents and investigations and other things. This committee, I believe, even called for him to be impeached. He's still IRS commissioner even though Republicans are now in charge of pretty much everything. Why is that?"
Chaffetz: "Now look, you have more than 50 Republicans pleading with President Trump to release him, um, to let him go, fire him. Uh, or at least encourage him to retire. No, he's still there. No changes. Nobody was fired. Nobody was prosecuted. Nobody was held accountable. We tried to issue subpoenas, we tried to hold people in contempt and the Obama administration said no, and the Trump administration came in and did zero. Nothing. Nothing changed."
Attkisson: "Do Republican leaders have an appetite to do the kind of oversight that needs to be done?"
Chaffetz: "No, no. No, I mean the reality is there aren't very many people that want to play offense. There aren't many people who say, look, we have a duty and an obligation to fulfill the oversight responsibility that was put in place at the very founding of our country."
(interview continues at link)
Trump needs to start acting like the CEO we hired him to be. Fire this scum at the IRS and then put them in prison.
Fire everybody! Geez. Is it that hard? Fire so many people the media and the deep state can’t hope to keep up on their “investigations”.
Trump has been president for five months tomorrow.
Chaffetz hasn’t seen anything that makes Trump better than Obama.
That is some pretty deep horse “stuff” right there.
Trump has done many things, yet Chaffetz is not aware of any of it. Nope, Trump is no better than Obama.
And some folks even here read his message, and buy into it hook line and sinker.
Good freakin grief folks.
When I worked for the Army as a civilian we would get an occasional Colonel who wanted to turn everything upside down for his OER, not to actually improve anything. We had an expression, “I was here when you got here, I’ll be here when you are gone.” Everyone like that needs to go. If they need help replacing the folks sent packing they probably couldn’t do better than recruit right here.
i feel like there is something more than meets the eye with Chaffetz. the Trump admin is barely in place so i don’t think he is trying very hard. he wants out of there - i don’t think he is telling us the real reason. woman’s intuition.
I watched this yesterday, the swamp runs deep.
It's sort of like the friendship and loyalty that Enzo the baker and Bonasera the undertaker had with Vito Corleone.
” Chaffetz: “The reality is, sadly, I don’t see much difference between the Trump administration and the Obama administration.
Unmitigated Bullshit. Glad this peckerhead is leaving.
Two topics here. I don’t really know nor care the Chaffetz motivation.
But WHY the Trump administration is so slow to act is mystifying to a vast number of non-FReepers who want the swamp drained.
Why was Trump so slow to nominate Price and Verma to run Healthcare when everyone knew last November that they would be the picks and could easily get confirmation?
Why are Price and Verma so slow to drain the HHS/CMS swamp? They could easily give a WAIVER to everyone for all regulations imposed by Obama’s technocrats. With waivers, then there is no reason for the police force as there is nothing to enforce. So eliminate the positions.
TRANSPARENCY, OpenTheBooks.com is another quick action that is needed. Almost all government data is now on relational databases. Agencies like HHS do not have the security concerns of FBI/CIA. ThinkTanks, Academicians and similar should have READ access to the Relational Databases. They should undergo tests to qualify with skill in SQL and the software packages already in place to do the queries.
Let both left and right expose what is really happening in these agencies.
The little that it costs could be charged to the ThinkTanks themselves, just as it is done now where Judicial Watch pays for FOIA costs. Transparency is a lot cheaper than FOIA for everyone.
More concern troll BS than anything worth printing/posting.
All one need to do is watch the hearings during the Obama administration to realize the bureaucracy is in charge. The Deep State mocks the politicians. Disgusting.
Very discouraging.
Miss Full Measure? Never ;)
Maybe if the Trump admin could be allowed to do their damned jobs instead of being tied up in Congressional hearings all the time; and if Congress would get to work making good on their promises, we wouldn’t be here right now.
The way I see it, people like Chaffetz are the problem. Limp weenies not willing to do the job they were hired to do and defending the mandate that sent them to DC.
Chaffetz: “The reality is, sadly, I don’t see much difference between the Trump administration and the Obama administration
I think an exit interview between President Trump and Chaffetz is needed.