The resolution, introduced by .House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rep. James Jordan (R-OH) and 18 other committee members, accuses Koskinen of making false statements under oath, failing to comply with a subpoena, and failing to notify Congress that key evidence was missing or destroyed. As they explained it to Fox News’ Sean Hannity:
"The heart of this concern is that they had in their possession documents that were under subpoena and they destroyed those," Chaffetz said. "Imagine, Sean, if the IRS had asked you for those documents and you said, 'Well, I had them, but I went ahead and destroyed them.' What would happen to you?"
Among the specific charges leveled by Mr. Chaffetz and 18 of his fellow Republicans on the committee were that Mr. Koskinen, appointed by President Obama in December 2013 after the targeting scandal broke, misled Congress when he said he had turned over all of former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner’s emails and that he oversaw destruction of evidence when his agency got rid of backup tapes that contained the emails.
Lying to Congress and destruction of evidence under subpoena are federal crimes, and that includes the arrogant Mr. Koskinen, who is just one example of being an Obama donor can get you a good job with the administration. As Investor’s Business Daily noted:
Certainly it might be argued that Koskinen's current position is owed to four decades of being a prodigious Democratic donor.
Koskinen has contributed to every Democratic presidential candidate since 1980, including $2,300 to Obama in 2008, and $5,000 to Obama in 2012.
Of course, being an Obama donor with a government job in and of itself is not a crime, but how Koskinen has used that job is positively criminal. Koskinen once confessed before Congress that obeying the law was a difficult task:
“Whenever we can, we follow the law," IRS chief John Koskinen recently told the House Ways and Committee in a Freudian slip of the truth that says it all.
When the DOJ dropped prosecution of Lerner, no one was more delighted than Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) whom Roll Call quotes as saying after the Lerner dismissal:
“Over the past five years, Republicans in the House of Representatives have squandered literally tens of millions of dollars going down all kinds of investigative rabbit holes -- IRS, Planned Parenthood, Benghazi -- with absolutely no evidence of illegal activity,” Cummings said in a statement.
Actually, there is quite a bit, including arguably some coordination with the abusive IRS by Cummings himself. As Investor’s Business Daily has noted:
Of particular interest to us has been Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member on Rep. Darrell Issa's House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, who has made every effort to keep the committee from finding out the true extent of IRS corruption and abuse of power in its targeting of conservatives.
As we've noted, emails released by Issa, a California Republican, show that Cummings' Democratic staff had requested information from the IRS' tax-exempt division, the one headed by Lois Lerner, on True the Vote, a conservative group that monitors polling places for voter fraud and supports the use of voter IDs, something that Cummings opposes.
"The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared, protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings' staff," the Oversight panel said in a statement.
House and Senate Democrats, it has been documented, often sent letters to the IRS asking that particularly successful and annoying groups be investigated. Cummings’ coordination and collusion with the IRS is also troubling if not criminal.
It is worth noting that one of the charges in the impeachment of Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal was just considering the use of the IRS for political purposes. People went to jail in Watergate for participating in and covering up a crime. So too should John Koskinen, along with Lois Lerner. Perhaps a change to a Republican administration and a new attorney general will result in the picking up of the prosecution banner.
Read more at American Thinker.
No one's going to get impeached. For anything. Ever. There's a gangrenous cancer on the Republic. The Nation is dying. Murdered from within. By lil scumsucking maggots, like Paul Ryan. Exactly like, Paul Ryan.
ReplyDeleteKeeler link, bout same (via BadBlue).
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/11/hes-in-league-with-the-democrats
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I remember reading an article on Doug Ross@Journal written by a Russian immigrant not long after the news about the terrible abuse by the IRS of American citizens based on their political ideology surfaced. I found it very chilling that he he said many immigrants from Communist countries were very concerned that every day America is becoming more like Russia every day -- they saw the IRS's abuse as a key indicator at the time.
ReplyDeleteWhen we look back at what has happened in the 2-3 years since that article was written, I wonder what these immigrants think now. In the interim, the Obama Administration has issued the EPA's Clean Power Plan which is basically the Cap and Trade Bill the Democrats couldn't pass when they held both houses of Congress; the EPA's Clean Water Plan which far exceeds the power ever envisioned in the EPA's empowering legislation; the FCC's unilateral takeover of the internet; Obama's amnesty via DHS's equivalent to Executive Orders; AND the Supreme Court has rewritten Obamacare on two occasions solely to save it -- just to name a few of the many unconstitutional acts by the Executive and Judicial Branches of our government.