Posted on 03/21/2014 6:13:53 AM PDT by bestintxas
The Holder Department of Justice (DOJ) rejected a request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to appoint a special prosecutor for the investigation into the IRS scandal in a letter released this week. The DOJ argued that it saw no apparent conflict of interest with its current investigator Barbara Bosserman—who has contributed thousands of dollars to Obama and other Democrats according to recent Breitbart News reports.
Despite the DOJ's denial of his request, the junior Texas Senator's office said it will not give up the fight to hold the Obama Administration accountable. A Cruz spokesperson told Breitbart Texas, "We will certainly push back...This is an issue that Cruz remains committed to."
In response to the DOJ's denial of his request, Cruz said in a statement, "It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama Administration to claim that the investigator leading the investigation into the IRS's illegal program has no conflict of interest. The investigator is a partisan Democrat who has donated over six thousand dollars to President Obama and Democrat causes… Nobody should trust a partisan Obama donor to investigate the IRS's political targeting of President Obama's enemies."
Cruz sent his initial request to Attorney General Eric Holder on January 22. He wrote in a letter, "It strains credulity to say that, out of the over 114,000 employees of the Department of Justice, the only possible choice to lead the investigation was a major
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I’m sick of GOP congressman voting to approve Obama’s approval then act socked when those appointees act like politicians. They need to be held accountable for being so stupid
GOPe response. we just need to get through the next election and then we will address it.
My response. There is ALWAYS a “next election”
You’re right Don-O.
No political will. No sense of responsibility to the Constitution or the People.
We are a banana republic led by cowards and crooks.
Walk out of the house and senate. Don’t come back and tell the nation why the walk out is occurring.
“I’m sick of GOP congressman voting to approve Obama’s approval then act socked when those appointees act like politicians. They need to be held accountable for being so stupid”
Yes, even a supposed conservative stalwart like Sessions tricks us after drinking the DC Koolaid
And of course you are nuts enough to take something completely out of context and post on another thread all together to prove your point?
Not only do you engage in hyperbole you are also delusional. Quick pick up your phone...Alex is on the line for you
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