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Cleta on the Cummings case
Powerline ^ | April 10, 2014 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 04/10/2014 10:04:14 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike

Washington superlawyer Cleta Mitchell represents True the Vote, one of the groups illegally targeted by the IRS in the scandals that have exposed the agency as a partisan operation. True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht has been harassed by federal law enforcement authorities representing three different federal agencies. They represent the price of politics in the Age of Obama.

As John notes below, yesterday the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee released emails that show Democratic staffers communicating with the IRS about True the Vote. It appears that Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking Democrat and therefore the Congressman to whom these staffers reported, may have lied during a committee hearing when he denied that his staffers had put the IRS on the trail of True the Vote. The emails show the Democrats calling True the Vote to the IRS’s attention and requesting records about that organization, which Lois Lerner was anxious to provide them.

We reached out to Cleta to ask if she might be able to shed light on the news that broke yesterday. She responded: “This is the supplement to the ethics complaint filed [by Cleta on behalf of True the Vote] on Feb 6. I think one of the questions is what EXACTLY the IRS provided to Cummings staff. And what other communications between Cummings staff and, say, the SEIU or White House counsel might have occurred.” Cleta has kindly forwarded a copy of her letter dated April 9 supplementing the Ethics Committee complaint filed previously against Cummings. She tells us that she is filing the letter this morning:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: cletamitchell; corruption; cummings; democrat; elijahcummings; gettherope; govtabuse; impeachnow; irs; irsteapartyscandal; loislerner; maryland; scandals; truethevote
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Good.

Elijah Cummings is not an ethical man...


21 posted on 12/01/2014 4:56:43 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

It appears that Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking Democrat and therefore the Congressman to whom these staffers reported, may have lied during a committee hearing when he denied that his staffers had put the IRS on the trail of True the Vote.

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I am shocked, shocked, I tell ya’.


22 posted on 12/01/2014 6:18:46 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

No, he will skate, as all of the Rats do.


23 posted on 12/01/2014 6:19:23 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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