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Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona
#19754377 - 03/27/14 08:48 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee threatened to hold the IRS commissioner in contempt of Congress if he does not turn over emails from embattled ex-IRS official Lois Lerner and others.
In another heated congressional hearing on the IRS targeting scandal, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on Wednesday questioned IRS boss John Koskinen on why his agency still has not produced documents subpoenaed by his committee. The chairman wants to see all of Lerner's and other agency officials' emails since 2009, to look for political motivations that might have been behind the practice of singling out conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. The last subpoena went out Feb. 14.
"We issued you a lawful subpoena," Issa told the commissioner, adding that delivering all emails from the four officials flagged is "not difficult."
Koskinen repeatedly pledged, in general, to "continue to work with you" on the investigation.
Issa, seemingly frustrated by the responses, said he expects Koskinen to comply "or potentially be held in contempt."
Issa is also weighing whether to pursue contempt proceedings against Lerner herself, for refusing to testify about her role in the targeting -- Lerner is the former head of the Exempt Organizations Division.
Koskinen, though, appeared to agree to eventually turn over the documents, while warning that many of the emails would be "irrelevant" to the investigation.
"If you want them all, we'll give them all to you," the commissioner said. He said it could take "years, not months."
The hearing bared the frustration among both Republican lawmakers and IRS officials over the course of the multiple investigations into the targeting scandal.
Koskinen, in his opening testimony, said the agency has devoted 250 employees and millions of dollars to the six separate investigations -- and that they have produced hundreds of thousands of pages of documents so far.
He noted that his team would still have to go through the subpoenaed emails and redact them for sensitive information. "A significant part of it's going to be irrelevant," he said.
But Republicans argue they need to see Lerner's emails in part because she refuses to testify before the committee. Earlier this month, Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions before the House oversight panel for a second time. Issa and the committee's top Democrat, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, also clashed at that hearing after Issa cut off his microphone.
Democrats continued to charge Wednesday that Republicans are using the IRS probe for political gain.
"This is all feeding the base," Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said.
Source: FoxNews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, Obama said in his Superbowl interview with Bill O'Reilly that there wasn't even a "smidgeon" of corruption at the IRS. If this is true why has Lois Lerner repeatedly taken the Fifth Amendment rather than testify about her role? Why is the head of the IRS dragging his feet in delivering the email traffic? Don't you wonder what is in those emails? Must be pretty hot stuff...
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd]
#19754385 - 03/27/14 08:51 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Long overdue.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#19754416 - 03/27/14 09:01 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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And let's get Lerner in jail until she talks.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: zappaisgod]
#19754439 - 03/27/14 09:08 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: zappaisgod]
#19754442 - 03/27/14 09:09 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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I couldn't agree more, Zap. Why she isn't in jail already is beyond me. The Republicans need to pick up the pace and get to the bottom of this scandal, even if it leads to the White House.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd]
#19754471 - 03/27/14 09:17 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Especially if it leads to the White House.
Koods is not concerned by government thugs as long as they target his opposition. Guess what that makes koods.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: zappaisgod]
#19754503 - 03/27/14 09:27 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Manufactured outrage.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: zappaisgod]
#19754510 - 03/27/14 09:30 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
zappaisgod said: Especially if it leads to the White House.
Koods is not concerned by government thugs as long as they target his opposition. Guess what that makes koods.
The only thug in this story is Darrel Issa.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: koods]
#19754649 - 03/27/14 10:03 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Seeking the truth is always thuggish, right koods. The fact that some Americans were deprived of their free speech rights so that Obama could win re-election is of no consequence to Democrats. As long as their free speech isn't curtailed, they don't care.
That's not thuggish, that's progressivism in its worst form.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd]
#19754786 - 03/27/14 10:36 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Damn Lerner comes off as a straight scum bag, that is who is the thug in this story is, besides Obama the biggest thug of them all.
" He noted that his team would still have to go through the subpoenaed emails and redact them for sensitive information"
Shouldnt it be up to congress discretion as to what is "sensitive information"?
"Democrats continued to charge Wednesday that Republicans are using the IRS probe for political gain"
What a bunch of bs..
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd] 1
#19754795 - 03/27/14 10:38 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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How exactly was someone deprived of their free speech rights because the organization they belong to may or may have not received tax exempt status?
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: koods] 1
#19754805 - 03/27/14 10:40 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Those groups were unable to raise money and thus they were deprived of their free speech rights. Schooling you is boring.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd]
#19754817 - 03/27/14 10:43 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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The members still have mouths, don't they? They can still raise money, but I guess the donors were just interested in a tax write off.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: koods]
#19754829 - 03/27/14 10:47 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yep. Taking away their tax-exempt status prevented them from making the impact in the 2012 election that they made in the 2010 mid-term election. We are going to end up proving it was ordered by the Obama Administration. The IRS was in the White House more than any other visitor in the 2010-2012 period. I wonder what they were discussing, don't you?
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd]
#19754855 - 03/27/14 10:51 AM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pay no attention to koods and politics. He thinks only Republicans gerrymander.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: koods]
#19755470 - 03/27/14 01:15 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
koods said:
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zappaisgod said: Especially if it leads to the White House.
Koods is not concerned by government thugs as long as they target his opposition. Guess what that makes koods.
The only thug in this story is Darrel Issa.
Government employees should not have to account for their government work? What a joke.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: zappaisgod]
#19755483 - 03/27/14 01:18 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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In kood-world? Only if they are Republican.
You know he believes Democrats (being god-like in their omnipotence) can do no wrong.
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#19755497 - 03/27/14 01:21 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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He also seems to have a taste for dicktaters
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: zappaisgod]
#19755681 - 03/27/14 02:11 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hmmmm...
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Re: Congress Ready to Hold IRS Chief in Contempt for IRS' Failure to Respond to Subpeona [Re: mpd]
#19755700 - 03/27/14 02:18 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nutzo republicans simple straight black gay crackheads with aids
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