Posted on 03/24/2014 2:48:12 AM PDT by markomalley
Conservatives are up in arms over the Justice Department’s refusal to name a special prosecutor in the IRS scandal.
And that’s basically how the media covered it, as an Eric Holder vs. Ted Cruz argument.
But there’s some important history here that helps explain why the Obama administration is, in effect, able to investigate itself. And it’s a debate that goes to the heart of public confidence in government.
The attorney general’s office disclosed its decision in a letter to Cruz, saying the appointment is “not warranted” there is no “conflict of interest” in the Justice Department pursuing the case. The letter said the probe is being conducted by “career prosecutors and law-enforcement professionals…without regard to politics.”
The Texas senator fired back that Holder’s department is abandoning a “bipartisan tradition of the Department of Justice of putting rule of law above political allegiance.”
So how can the administration be trusted with such a sensitive probe? The reason Holder was able to make that decision goes back to Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
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You are exactly right and there will be no push by the Republicans in Congress to force Holder to reconsider. They are powerless and like it that way.
All the news stories would be about partisan witch hunts; any crimes that may have been committed would be ignored.
Ironic when you consider that the IRS hassles were part of a deliberate "partisan witchhunt" to begin with.
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