[mandaladon]

My personal favorite of all the new revelations from the Obama IRS scandal is that White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough about the impending IRS inspector general report, but of course the White House chief of staff did not tell the president..................It keeps getting worse for Team Obama

[mandaladon]

I sat in a White House chief of staff’s office every day for more than two years. The only reason the legal counsel would tell the chief of staff about an impending report or disclosure would be so the chief of staff could tell the president. .....................But Zero knows nothing

[chris37]

Who is going to appoint one?

[Nervous Tick]

Washington Post??!? Nah... can't be.

But it is!

Good find.

[Secret Agent Man]

look for the most stupid partisan person they can find to muck up the investigation.

[redgolum]

I give it 50/50 that one is appointed.

But not till after the mid terms next year.

[ZULU]

Slowly, slowly, twisting in the wind.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[muawiyah]

As a general rule you do not want to be the political focal point in late May or early June since that will be the big story all summer long ~ that ends September 21.

Michelle is reported to have planned an extended vacation

[muir_redwoods]

Perhaps I’m certifiably paranoid but I believe the IRS revelations were timed to divert attention from Bengazi. The IRS matter can be resolved by firing mid level managers; Bengazi will keep Hillary out of the white house in 2016. Keep your eyes on the prize, it’s not the IRS.

[doc]

The Republican congress needs to go after the IRS scandal like a pit bull. Stay on point and make that priority number one vs. writing new bills that costs tax payers more money. Spinning this off to a special prosecutor or committee will only allow this administration to go in to full stall mode. When that happens the outcome is inevitable, NOTHING!!!!!

[newnhdad]

If they keep taking the 5th, there will be no choice but I’m not sure Holder will cooperate.

[livius]

Not to mention, the White House all the while could blast the appointed counsel as a partisan ideologue à la the hatchet job that was done on Ken Starr... If [Obama] and his White House already have too much to hide, then they must clam up, cry partisanship and hope their allies on the Hill and in the media have the stamina for the long haul...

This is exactly why I'm afraid of a special prosecutor in any of these events. I think it's got to come out right away, right now. Holder should be removed, and then the Attorney General's office should file charges.

[NormsRevenge]

It can’t get much worse.. maybe O claimed Bo as a dependent, nothing would surprise me. Look where all his Chicago buddies are,, like rezko and blago.. be a shame all his buddies do all the time.. and then there is dead fish, where was he a few years ago as this played out?

[cynwoody]

Andy McCarthy, who knows a lot about counsels and the DoJ and criminal procedure, argues against a special counsel:

Let’s put law and atmospherics aside and try to be completely practical. The imperative in the IRS scandal is not criminal prosecution. It is political accountability: to lay bare what corrupt officials have done, for the purpose of swiftly determining whether they are unfit to hold offices of public trust and whether the system in which they operate tends to corruption. The appointment of a special counsel would undermine that goal.

The moment a prosecutor — special or otherwise — takes over, the public flow of information stops. All witnesses will claim that the pendency of a criminal investigation means they cannot discuss the matter “on advice of counsel.” They will cease cooperating with congressional investigators. The prosecutor will claim that grand-jury secrecy rules bar comment about the expansive investigation (a claim the government routinely makes, even though the rules actually bar comment only by the prosecutor, investigative agents, and grand jurors — not the witnesses).

The objective here should not be to throw a few corrupt officials in the can. Rather, it should be to disgrace the Regime and shatter Americans' confidence in their government and thereby gin up the votes to retake the Senate in 2014 and the White House in 2016. In order to do that, all the shocking facts must be placed before the public.

A House select committee holding a series of lengthy hearings is probably the best vehicle to accomplish those objectives.

[Revel]

And they are good for exactly what. I can name one guy who is proof of that. Ken Star.

The so called special prosecutors are bought and paid for just like the rest.