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Time for an IRS special prosecutor: The most partisan Justice Dept. in history cannot be trusted
American Thinker ^ | 01/13/2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 01/13/2014 7:51:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Washington Examiner is calling for a special prosecutor in the IRS targeting scandal, saying it's the only way to get to the bottom of what went on.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa points to tone deafness to explain the choice of an Obama donor to run the Justice Department's "investigation" of IRS targeting of conservative, Tea Party and evangelical political groups during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns. But the California Republican is being entirely too diplomatic. Putting a donor in charge is more like flipping the bird to Obama's critics.

When the IRS harassment abuse first became public last year, Obama promised a complete investigation. Attorney General Eric Holder described the IRS harassment as "outrageous and unacceptable" and ordered a joint investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department. But it's been obvious since then that the investigation has been, at best, perfunctory. A more accurate description of the probe may well be "criminal obstruction," at least according to Issa.

In a Jan. 8 letter to Holder, Issa noted that, after repeated requests for information from the FBI about the progress of the probe, it "failed to provide the requested information, and, after the [Justice Department] apparently interfered, the [FBI] withdrew" its previous offer to meet with the oversight committee's staff to discuss the investigation. It was in the same letter that Issa revealed the committee's discovery that the Justice Department officials overseeing the investigation is trial attorney Barbara Bosserman.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doj; irs; justice

1 posted on 01/13/2014 7:51:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

but who appoints the special prosecutor...?


2 posted on 01/13/2014 7:53:12 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: SeekAndFind

what has to happen to appoint a spec prosecutor?


3 posted on 01/13/2014 7:55:21 AM PST by Principled
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To: SeekAndFind

Putting a vampire in charge of a blood bank.


4 posted on 01/13/2014 7:55:24 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Principled

RE: what has to happen to appoint a spec prosecutor?

Conservatives have to take over all 3 branches of the government.


5 posted on 01/13/2014 7:57:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Who cares about this? I wanna hear about the traffic jam.


6 posted on 01/13/2014 8:01:49 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

In the culture, laws were made by men and carried out by professionals who understood the laws they were executing. In the counterculture, laws were made by activists/progs/socialiasts and then modified by regulators and bureaucrats so many times that trials involve extensive debates over what law was broken, whether it was broken and whether the law that may have been broken even exists. No one ever knows what the law actually is. They only know whom they want punished and why. All of this to the advantage of lawyers that run every branch of government in order to fully line their pockets.


7 posted on 01/13/2014 8:01:58 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

SOURCE: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/01/12/dems-pile-on-christie-while-ignoring-hillarys-past/?singlepage=true

Christie may recover enough to run for president — as long as no evidence surfaces connecting him directly to the order to close the bridge lanes. But even without the scandal, he faced long odds to win the nomination.

On the other hand, the Democrats have the most scandal-plagued candidate in recent history as their frontrunner. Liberals may not care about Hillary’s problems, but the American people may. The point being, just what is it the left is celebrating about the Christie bridge scandal?

Those who live in glass houses…


8 posted on 01/13/2014 8:04:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Christie may recover enough to run for president

Run? More like roll.


9 posted on 01/13/2014 8:07:58 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The president has consistently used the JD to cover for his many misdeeds. Even if there is a special prosecutor, it will be a Obamabot who will find nothing.


10 posted on 01/13/2014 8:09:50 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The most partisan Justice Dept. in history cannot be trusted

No Shi! You mean after 5 years of this communists controlled Justice Department under our communists black Muslim King Obama, the message is finally coming across? America is lost.

11 posted on 01/13/2014 8:11:25 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Neoliberalnot

THE SUMMER OF 2014:
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Today is the last watershed day for America, because it is the last chance for the US Supreme Court to exercise a Constitutional Check and Balance on the current rogue, tyrannical and oppressive Federal Administration.

Chief Justice John “Traitor” Roberts will probably again refuse to abide with the clear Constitutional Law, and again rewrite the US Constitution to his own liking, in similar manner to what Roberts did with the Constitutionality of the Obamacare Case when he un-Constutionally converted a legal fine into an illegal tax.

Today the US Supreme Court takes up the issue of whether or not an Administration can act without Congressional Approval on matters relating to personnel appointments.

The topic of bypassing the House on approving the spending of taxpayer’s dollars by the Administration will not be considered today, except tangentially, as the appointed personnel will be paid with taxpayer dollars, which would be a bypassing of the Constitutional Control of the Purse by the US House of Representatives.

We taxpayers view this as a clear cut case where we have “Taxation Without Representation” because our Representatives have not been part of the decision-making process.

Examples of a few Imperial matters of record include the following:
* Senator Reid’s Democrats recent voting to turn the US Congress into the US Parliament,
* Boehner’s refusal to appoint House Special Prosecutors for each of the Five Obama Administration Scandals,
* Obama’s four years of Imperial actions, and
* the recent history, ( Traitor Roberts’ Obamacare decision), of the US Supreme Court’s proven reluctance to provide their Constitutional duty of a Check and Balance on the other two Branches of the US Federal Government.

With the usual US Supreme Court private straw vote today that always follows the 30 minute Official Hearing before the Court, America’s future fate will be sealed, and later proclaimed between now and the Summer of 2014.

Either way that the NINE SUPREMES rule on this case, “The Summer of 2014” will prove to be the Summer that decided whether or not our Founding Fathers fought King George the Third of England in vain - - - .

____________________
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THE SUMMER OF 2014.


12 posted on 01/13/2014 8:18:11 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I wonder, how would the enemedia deal with a Republican administration which would consult with the IRS to squelch political opposition to republican empowerment in elections, then use a republican controlled Justice Department to protect the criminal behaviors committed to empower the administration?

By just asking the question we see the treachery of the media which works solely for democrip empowerment, giving aid and assistance to the criminal enterprise democrips.

13 posted on 01/13/2014 8:26:57 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Proof again that the Executive Branch cannot do a criminal investigation of itself or the White House. So stop playing around and get a special prosecutor on the trail ASAP.

MEMO TO ISSA: Take note!

14 posted on 01/13/2014 8:37:47 AM PST by Rapscallion (Had enough? Let me know.)
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To: SeekAndFind

the worthless politicos will cover each others guilty asses and no one ever will be held accountable will they obammy ya crook.


15 posted on 01/13/2014 9:17:38 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: SeekAndFind

When you control the “LAW” you can control it all, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. IOW you are a Dictator!


16 posted on 01/13/2014 9:18:53 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

Since the rule of law is dead and the law of tyrants is what governs us - I submit we obey God rather than men, and disobey the tyrants and throw off the shackles of the federal beast that the Obama regime has demonstrated to be lawless. Refuse to obey ANY laws from this Beast in Washington and obey God’s laws alone.

It is time to resist and defy them.

Let them make that last mistake and then we shall be justified to defend ourselves from tyrants as is our historical heritage.


17 posted on 01/13/2014 9:43:14 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: All

To paraphrase Stalin, how many networks does The Washington Examiner have?


18 posted on 01/13/2014 11:56:15 AM PST by pluvmantelo (The thing of it is, we must live with the living- Michel de Montaigne)
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