Oversight committee: 'IRS misled Congress for years,' destroyed key evidence

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Washington Examiner:

Paul Bedard

7/27/15 4:26 PM

 

Stepping his focus on four years of document destruction and stonewalling by the Internal Revenue Service, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz on Monday issued a scathing video demanding a final "accountability" from top IRS officials.

 

The video is a remarkable accounting of years of IRS efforts, starting with Lois Lerner, the ex-official who led the targeting of conservative and Tea Party foes of President Obama, to duck demands for emails and other documents.

 

It also details multiple efforts by IRS to destroy key evidence after "non-destruction" demands were issued, and the agency's bid to avoid searching for subpoenaed documentation that should have been easy to find.

 

 

"The bottom line. IRS didn't fulfill their legal responsibility to respond to Congress. They didn't preserve information. They didn't try to find the information. They misled Congress for years. Their failings leave the American people in the dark about how their First Amendment rights were trampled upon. There must be accountability."

 

It was released ahead of today's early evening press conference where Chaffetz plans to make his demands to the IRS and Obama administration.

 

"Chairman Chaffetz and members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a press conference today to provide an update on the Committee's IRS targeting investigation, and to discuss potential actions moving forward," said a preview.

 

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House Republicans to Obama: Fire IRS chief

Bernie Becker

07/27/15

 

House Republicans will call on President Obama to fire IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Monday – or threaten to try and remove him themselves, congressional aides said. Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other GOP members of the Oversight panel will discuss their efforts later on Monday.

 

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Democrats have long said that Lerner and the tax-exempt division bungled applications for nonprofit status, but that there's no proof the IRS's actions were politically motivated or that there was White House involvement.

 

Obama himself has become increasingly dismissive of the IRS controversy, saying last year that there wasn't a "smidgen of corruption" at the agency. The president blamed the problems at the IRS on a "crummy law" during an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" last week.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tImU0yje71Y

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Chaffetz to Obama: Fire the IRS Commissioner

Posted by Amy Miller July 28, 2015 at 11:40am

 

“At best, Commissioner Koskinen was derelict in his duties…”

 

Yesterday, House Oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) wrote a detailed letter to President Obama asking him to remove IRS chief John Koskinen from office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3mwPTFhgg

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/07/chaffetz-to-obama-fire-the-irs-commissioner/

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