IRS Hinders Congressional Investigation

Posted on August 3 2013 by Conservative Daily
IRS CHIEF STONEWALLS CONGRESS AGAIN!
Dear Patriotic Conservative,
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, accused the Obama administration and its new IRS chief this week of OBSTRUCTING his panel’s investigation into the agency’s targeting of tea party, conservative and religious groups.
In a terse letter to Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel, Congressman Issa stated: “If the IRS continues to hinder the committee’s investigation in any manner, the committee will be forced to consider the use of compulsory process.”
The letter was also signed by Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who also sits on the committee.
Congressional investigations continue. Republicans continue to argue that the administration created a political climate that encouraged IRS personnel to think excessive screening of conservative groups was justified.
An immediate investigation by the Inspector General is absolutely in order.
Except the liberal media, there is no one left to insulate or protect the White House from the evolving IRS Scandal!
Congressman Issa and Jordan expressed in a stern letter to Werfel: “Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime! Despite your promise to cooperate fully with congressional investigations, the actions of the IRS under your leadership has made clear to the committee that your agency has no intention of complying completely or promptly with the committee’s oversight efforts.”
“The systematic manner in which the IRS has attempted to delay, frustrate, impede, and obstruct the committee’s investigation raises serious concerns about your commitment to full and unfettered congressional oversight.”
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said that the conservative groups faced more probing questions than did liberal groups seeking the same tax-exempt status. Congressman Camp reported that conservative groups were asked three times as many questions, and were less than half as likely to get approval from the IRS.
Much like Issa’s Oversight Committee, Dave Camp said his investigators were also waiting on the IRS to turn over more information. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have received less than three percent of the documents responsive to the investigation!”
What is far most outrageous than the stonewalling of IRS information requested by congressional committees, is the fact that the national news media has not truly reported on this IRS scandal. THE MEDIA IS NOT INVESTIGATING THE IRS SCANDAL!!
The major television networks have spent more time covering the royal birth earlier this month than the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS!
Brent Bozell, founder and president of Media Research Center, stresses: “It’s a startling reflection on the decision by the national press that they are simply NOT going to report this! Never mind investigate it. We’re not talking about investigating. We’re talking about reporting other people’s investigations.”
“In our world as conservatives, we think the rest of the world understands what it is we’re seeing because it’s so flagrant – the abuse of power – and yet we have to understand that the average Joe out there that still relies on CBS or NBC or ABC or CNN for his news is not getting the story. It is being censored!”
Dan Pfeiffer, a White House official who represents President Barack Obama, said that the committee’s accusations were “completely false!”
He retorted: “The allegation was, by many Republicans, that the White House was directing the IRS to target Tea Party groups. That was the allegation. And that has turned out to be completely false. There is no evidence to suggest that. And now it has turned out that the IRS was not just targeting conservative groups but also looking at a large number of progressive groups as well. So that changes the dynamic of what it was."
“I'd say that on all of the issues [IRS, Benghazi, NSA surveillance], there are legitimate questions to be looked at to be sure if things happened the wrong way, that they should be addressed. That is different than trying to turn them, to try to use them to score political points, which Congressman Issa and the Republican Senate have been very clear that that's what they are trying to do. All of these allegations about White House involvement, that the White House was involved, that Washington was involved, all of these things, as the facts have come out, have not been as such."
Yet another smoke-screen. Another stone-wall.
WHAT ABOUT THE VISITS TO THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE IRS—MORE THAN THE COMBINED VISITS OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, AND HHS SECRETARY?
This IRS Scandal (and strategy!) absolutely points to the White House!
Congressman Darrell Issa’s spokesman Frederick Hill said: “This administration will say anything as it attempts to distract Americans from the facts. While Obama Administration officials and their surrogates viciously attacked the Tea Party for years, what has been most troubling is the year-long cover-up of an internal IRS investigation; the White House’s evolving explanations of what occurred, and the IRS no longer fully honoring President Obama’s pledge to fully cooperate with Congressional investigators. We still don’t know the motivations of senior IRS officials involved in the systematic targeting and disparate treatment of Tea Party applicants."
Thanks to IRS employees’ testimonies and now White House visitor log documents, the IRS Scandal now directly pointing to President Barack Obama’s White House. Many Americans are not even aware of the latest IRS Scandal developments due to the major television networks not reporting on the story!
THE FACTS speak for themselves. Tell Congress to appoint a Special Prosecutor for the IRS debacle. Are you now beginning to “connect the dots?” Now let’s make sure Congress connects the dots to get to the very bottom of this shameful IRS scandal.
This scandalous timeline is still just the tip of the iceberg. It all points to the man “in charge” at the White House, President Barack Obama. The scandalous fingers also point to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. So don’t hold your breath! But we must mandate action by our Congress. Demand transparency!
Don’t wait for someone else to speak up…today’s the day we all say NO MORE!
But there is much more! After reading these next few sentences, your blood may be boiling. It is proof that the oversight goes all the way to the White House. Look at this:
The White House Visitor’s Log is the most damaging of evidence against President Obama. Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shuman has visited the White House MORE than ANY other Cabinet member! In fact, he visited the White House more times than the combined visits of Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, and Kathleen Sebelius! How in the world is that possible?
And yet President Obama did not “have a clue” about the IRS until he heard about it from the media???!! Who is fooling who? The President spent MORE time with the leadership of the Internal Revenue Service than anyone else in the Cabinet!

Let Congress know how you feel about this expanded ILLEGAL INTIMIDATION by the Internal Revenue Service!
Sincerely,

Conservative Daily

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