Posted on 10/27/2015 2:11:04 PM PDT by yoe
House Republicans have moved to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, arguing he violated the public trust.
Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) introduced an impeachment resolution Tuesday, days after the Justice Department concluded its investigation into IRS targeting of Tea Party groups with no charges filed.
“Commissioner Koskinen violated the public trust. He failed to comply with a congressionally issued subpoena, documents were destroyed on his watch, and the public was consistently misled,” Chaffetz said in a statement. “Impeachment is the appropriate tool to restore public confidence in the IRS and to protect the institutional interests of Congress.”
Much of the committee’s impeachment charge centers around the destruction of several backup tapes that could have contained missing emails sent by Lois Lerner, the former official at the center of the IRS’s improper scrutiny of conservative groups.
Chaffetz’s resolution charges that Koskinen, who took over the IRS after the controversy emerged, failed to preserve 422 backup tapes that could have contained Lerner emails.
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FINALLY some Action!!!!
RE: FINALLY some Action!!!!
It’s not as if something similar hasn’t been done before to the IRS.
SIGH.... Nobody has ever answered this for me...
What Punishment does a person get for being cited in CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS?
When someone is declared in contempt of court, that person gets jailed.
When Lois Lerner and Eric Holder were held in contempt of congress, what did they get?
In the case of the former, a cozy retirement and a fat pension.
So, what’s there to fear?
Some might fear lead.
Some might fear lead.
Sheesh, what took’m so long? Kokinen seems an evil and arrogant SOB judging by his appearance on TV.
I believe it was around 1934 the last time they put someone in jail for contempt. They can put him in jail, but dont hold your breath.
So why not impeach the Attorney General and several of the US Attorneys who made the decision not to prosecute? If IRS Commissioner is guilty of wrongdoing then the Justice Department is guilty of not protecting the public by enforcing the laws.
“When Lois Lerner and Eric Holder were held in contempt of congress, what did they get?
In the case of the former, a cozy retirement and a fat pension.
So, what’s there to fear?”
This is beyond a joke, and nothing will happen here either.
One at a time. This is a start.
One at a time. This is a start.
“So why not impeach the Attorney General and several of the US Attorneys who made the decision not to prosecute? If IRS Commissioner is guilty of wrongdoing then the Justice Department is guilty of not protecting the public by enforcing the laws. “
Intelligent reasoning, so why bother to post it ?
LOL
I was audited 6 months after donating to a Tea Party.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Me too.
“When Lois Lerner and Eric Holder were held in contempt of congress, what did they get?”
Not a damned thing. The Sgt. at Arms was instructed to “Wack their pee pees. In due time.” so the Sgt. ignored the order and the perps were considered duly chastened.
Lerner is now comfortably retired. Koskinen hasn’t suffered a single penalty. Holder is doing well in his new job.
As soon as that session of Congress that issued the citation is over, the contempt citation evaporates.
So it’s like the GOP-e bemoaning the system: “It stinks!”
(Both Boner and Ryno on same day—today.)
But, but they ARE the system!
It’s just a sign of the contempt Uniparty has for us: a lot of sound and fury, then nothing.
Same with their investigators. If Issa and Gowdy produced the same results for their superiors in the private sphere that they have tendered to us, they’d be doing something else or a living.
Or at least doing it somewhere else.
Why can’t they just say he LIED to Congress and obstructed justice.
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