Posted on 03/26/2014 6:38:29 AM PDT by don-o
Video at link.
(Excerpt) Read more at oversight.house.gov ...
heard it....makes Forrest Gump Einstein like.
IRS stonewalls investigation of Tea Party targeting..
Jordan has found possible plagiarism in the Commish’s testimony
The Commish lied. Why was Issa cutting Jordan off when he caught the guy lying? I don’t get it.
Because Elijah would pitch a fit if he ran over time?
possible, but weird. Makes Issa look bad to me.
freakin cspan on line was jet lagged but the commish could not hide his stern face from his pearly whites smiles...F;n thief
Jordan getting a follow up now.
Elijah in his final mumble.
Eli........thanks IRS for their service. The hardest job in America.......
Cummings going to take all the time he needs to make his speech and Issa is likely to let him do it!
Now folks are supposed to cry for the crooked democrat IRS. What a scam.
Cummings is full of BS.
This speech has nothing to do with anything that has been done to people.
House Counsel: Oversight Committee Can Hold Lerner in Contempt
March 26, 2014
WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., entered a memo from the House Counsel’s office into the record for today’s hearing. The memo concludes that the Committee has met or exceeded all the relevant legal requirements to proceed to a vote on whether former IRS official Lois Lerner should be held in contempt after her refusal to testify on March 5th .
The counsel directly refutes claims made by Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and his attorney, who erroneously concluded that the Committee did not fulfill the legal requirements for a contempt vote.
“The question, in brief, is whether Ms. Lerner was ‘clearly apprised that the [C]ommittee demand[ed] [her] answer[s] [to its questions] notwithstanding h[er Fifth Amendment] objections…’” the counsel writes. “Based on our review of the record, we believe Ms. Lerner clearly was so apprised for two independent reasons.”
“First, the Committee formally rejected her Fifth Amendment claims and expressly advised her of its determination (a fact that she, through her attorney, acknowledged prior to her appearance at the reconvened hearing on March 5, 2014),” the counsel writes, referring to the June 28, 2013 vote that determined Lerner had waived her Fifth Amendment rights. “Second, the Committee Chairman thereafter advised Ms. Lerner in writing that the Committee expected her to answer its questions, and advised her orally, at the reconvened hearing on March 5, 2014, that she faced the possibility of being held in contempt of Congress if she continued to decline to provide answers.”
“For all the reasons stated above, it is this Office’s considered opinion that Mr. Rosenbergis wrong in concluding that ‘the requisite legal foundation… ha[s] not been met,” the counsel concludes.
Lerner was originally invited to testify on May 22, 2013, but refused to answer questions after making a voluntary opening statement. The hearing was adjourned, and Lerner was called back on March 5, 2014, but again refused to answer the Committee’s questions despite the fact that she remained under subpoena.
7 minutes
Rep. Gowdy Questions IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about IRS Targeting Scandal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kGQr_lSNWk
5:25 Minutes
3-26-2014 Issa Opening Statement IRS Response to Targeting Scandal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0NS60CC-yY
Hey! They left out the part where Koskinen is a criminal, and a lawless thug!
Of course, Koskinen is a government employee in a tyrannical government, so we know that he'll never be charged with any crimes.*
*See the tyrannies of Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mao's China, etc., etc. It's important for free men to remember that NO CRIMES were committed by government employees or apparatchiks in those countries during the rule of the tyranny.
Video of full hearing:
3-26-2014 Examining the IRS Response to the Targeting Scandal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3afIQ4xFo
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