House Republicans ask DoJ to investigate IRS targeting scandal (Read 897 times)

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Let's hope Sessions' DOJ decides to actually go after the criminals of the Obama administration. Besides Lerner and the other leftist flunkies at IRS in the case below, they could/should go after the BATFE, Holder and Obama for Fast and Furious, the wiretapping of journalists, the lies about Benghazi, and the long list of criminal acts by Hillary Clinton, to name a few...

House Republicans ask DoJ to investigate IRS targeting scandal

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/house_republicans_ask_doj_to_investigate_irs_targeting_scandal.html

Excerpts:

Will the Trump Justice Department do what the Obama Justice Department refused to do?

House Republicans wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions requesting that DoJ open an investigation into the IRS program that targeted conservative groups. The Obama administration refused to hold anyone accountable for the illegal practice.

Specifically, Republicans want the Department of Justice to look into the actions taken by Lois Lerner, who led the tax exempt division of the IRS during the scandal.
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Lerner more than demonstrated her partisanship when she was a member of the Federal Election Commission, targeting Republican candidates for outrageous treatment. She has so far gotten away with pinning the targeting scandal on a couple of low level IRS employees in the Cincinnati office. It's clear from the emails that have been recovered - many were deleted when IRS hard drives were destroyed - that the targeting of conservatives was planned at a much higher level and that IRS managers knew they were in violation of the law.

The IRS continues to this day to slow walk approval of conservative applications for tax exempt status. As long as career IRS bureaucrats can act with impunity to affect the ability of conservative groups to promote their causes, the political targeting will continue.

Prosecuting Lois Lerner would send a message that such behavior will not be tolerated any longer.