The witnesses explained to the committee that the committee invited them and that they would be perfectly happy to be uninvited. They are financial investigators and do not want to jeopardize their potential rewards for dimming to the IRS on the Clinton RICO operation. OK
Diming.
I think I get it. So Congress could easily just ask for the evidence from the IRS directly?
At least that answer makes sense. Congress should have cut them a deal, turn over the evidence and still hold your place in line for your cut.
Here is a perfect example of how capitalism can (and does) work without the need for an overbearing government. We’ve just witnessed 2+ years of abuse, following 8 years of “the most transparent government in history”. Seems to me we could cut tons of fat out of government and just offer a cut of the fine to private investigators, and/or private citizen whistleblowers. It would reduce corruption and abuse of power - provided of course that we had a justice system actually followed through on criminal referrals and didn’t pick and choose winners and losers. We’d need an independent judiciary, an independent “appointed for life” judiciary that evaluated only whistleblower complaints with the power to imprison and fine those who abuse their power (e.g. IRS abuses).