House Republicans introduce measure to impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen

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Fox News:

House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, accusing him of making "false statements" under oath and failing to comply with a subpoena for evidence.

 

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and 18 other committee members introduced the resolution to begin impeachment proceedings. In doing so, they followed through on a threat first made over the summer, when Republicans accused the IRS leader of making inaccurate statements to Congress regarding the Tea Party targeting scandal and its aftermath.

 

"Commissioner Koskinen violated the public trust," Chaffetz said in a statement Tuesday. "He failed to comply with a congressionally issued subpoena, documents were destroyed on his watch, and the public was consistently misled.

 

"Impeachment is the appropriate tool to restore public confidence in the IRS and to protect the institutional interests of Congress."

 

The announcement comes on the same day Koskinen testified before the Senate Finance Committee, and after the Justice Department on Friday decided to close its investigation of the targeting scandal without pursuing criminal charges.

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BOOM. House files resolution to impeach current IRS Commissioner
posted at 5:21 pm on October 27, 2015 by Jazz ShawRumors had been swirling around inside the Beltway for a while, but today they came to fruition. After the feds announced that there would be no charges filed against Lois Lerner over the IRS scandal – or against anyone for that matter – the House of Representatives has taken matters into their own hands. The lower chamber has moved to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for his role in the muddled and misleading proceedings. Our own Katie Pavlich has the details over at Town Hall.

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This story will expand quite a bit in the days to come, but as Katie notes, it’s worth remembering that a federal judge had already threatened to haul the Commissioner into court for his obfuscating tactics. Given what’s been reported in the news and the specifics in the filing, it’s very possible that they could actually come up with a conviction here barring a presidential pardon, but there’s still a huge bar to get over.

 

According to the rules of play, the House can bring the charges with a simple majority vote. Easy enough this year. But the trial is held in the Senate and requires a two thirds vote to convict. (If this is treated as a partisan issue and all the Democrats abscond in their duty it would be impossible.) Also, Joe Biden gets to preside over the trial. Many seem to think that it would be John Roberts, but he would only preside in the case of impeaching the President. That’s a tough hill to climb. In all of US history there have been seven successful impeachments and all of them were judges. The only cabinet official to ever be impeached was William Belknap, Secretary of War under President Grant, but he wasn’t convicted. The only two Presidents to be impeached were not found guilty, as were the various Senators brought to stand before the wheel.

 

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OTOH

 

The FBI & Hillary’s e-mails: A Lois Lerner precedent?

By Post Editorial Board

October 26, 2015

 

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Wondering what the FBI probe will conclude about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private account and server for all her State Department e-mails? Well, Obama already told CBS’s Steve Kroft that it didn’t make for a “national security problem. . . I can tell you that this is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”

 

If the Lois Lerner case is any precedent, the FBI might as well wrap up its Clinton probe right now.

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This my friends is nothing more than scam – look over here see what we are going to do, all the while taking your eyes off the Budget deal reached by Boehner

 

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