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DesideriScuri -> RE: Issa Lied about IRS targets???? (8/21/2013 6:32:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
As the FULLLLLLLL transcript is available only since yesterday its, news.
DO you understand what innocuous means?
THEY lied to everyone...no, Issa redacted, the republican members redacted, and the republican inspector general redacted relevant parts, in an OVERSIGHT committee. AND LIED to EVERYONE. But of course I never claimed that anywhere until now.
Bah, sometimes you make it SOOOO easy
Perhaps you don't know this, being in Canada, but just because the House of Representatives is majority-ruled by Republicans doesn't mean that the committees are all Republicans.
House Oversight Committee
23 Republicans and 17 Democrats
House Ways and Means Committee
23 Republicans and 16 Democrats.
For the claim to be valid, it would require bipartisan lying. The Democrats on these Committees have no reason to prevent this information from coming out. None.
August 2, 2013 articlequote:
WASHINGTON—House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today issued a subpoena to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew over the Internal Revenue Service’s increasing attempts to obstruct the Committee’s investigation into IRS targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.
“During the past two weeks, President Obama and you have repeatedly labeled the IRS’s strategy of targeting Americans for their political beliefs as a ‘phony’ scandal. While the Obama Administration has so publicly deflected responsibility for the targeting, it simultaneously has attempted to thwart congressional oversight into the matter… the IRS has engaged in a systematic effort to delay, frustrate, impede, and obstruct the Committee’s investigation,” Issa writes in a letter to Lew accompanying the subpoena.
The letter also details IRS failures to produce documents over the two months since the Committee’s first request:
IRS originally identified over 64 million pages of responsive documents and has revised that number down to 660,000 responsive documents, but has produced to the Committee only about 12,000 pages.
Approximately 2,500 pages are fully redacted and a significant portion of the remaining pages are duplicative.
IRS affirmatively prevented Exempt Organizations Determinations Manager Cindy Thomas from providing the Committee with documents in her possession prior to her transcribed interview with Committee staff.
IRS – without consulting with House Committees – unilaterally limited the date range for searching relevant documents and appears to have unilaterally narrowed the search terms from 81 agreed-upon terms to a subset of only 12 terms.
“While the Committee is willing to work with the IRS to guide the agency in responding to oversight requests, it is patently unacceptable for the IRS to unilaterally revise the scope or search terms used to identify responsive material,” Issa writes.
The Committee is compelling the production of the following documents:
All communications sent or received by Lois Lerner, from January 1, 2009 to August 2, 2013.
All communications sent or received by Holly Paz, from January 1, 2009 to August 2, 2013.
All communications sent or received by William Wilkins, from February 1, 2010 to August 2, 2013.
All communications sent or received by Jonathan Davis, from February 1, 2010 to August 2, 2013.
All communications between or among employees of the Internal Revenue Service’s office of Chief Counsel, employees of the Department of the Treasury, and employees of the Executive Office of the President, referring or relating to tax-exempt organizations or applicants for tax-exempt status, from February 1, 2010 to August 2, 2013.
All communications sent by IRS employees to an e-mail address with the domain name “who.eop.gov,” from February 1, 2010 to August 2, 2013.
All communications received by IRS employees from an e-mail address with the domain name “who.eop.gov,” from February 1, 2010 to August 2, 2013.
All documents referring or relating to the evaluation of tax-exempt applications or the examination of tax-exempt organizations, from January 1, 2009 to August 2, 2013.
Click here to watch Chairman Issa discuss IRS obstruction at today’s hearing with Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel. The cover letter accompanying the subpoena is available here.
(bolding mine)
Perhaps it wasn't the Republicans lying after all?
Edited to change the last line above to:
Perhaps it wasn't just the Republicans lying after all?
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