Posted on 10/23/2015 9:09:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
The first contact between the IRS and Cummings’ staffers about True the Vote happened in August 2012. In January 2013, staff asked for more information from the IRS about the group. Former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner went out of her way to try and get information to Cummings’ office.The information Cummings received was not shared with Majority Members on the Committee.
On January 28, three days after staffers requested more information, Lerner wrote an email to her deputy Holly Paz, who has since been put on administrative leave, asking, “Did we find anything?” Paz responded immediately by saying information had not been found yet, to which Lerner replied, “Thanks, check tomorrow please.”
After the hearing, Engelbrecht filed an ethics complaint against Cummings for his targeting and intimidation of her organization.
Rep. Cummings has described the investigation into IRS targeting of conservative groups as a “witch hunt,” and has tried multiple times to put the investigation on hold.
Sure, if Caroline Kennedy can “handle” Japan, why not Egypt for this idiot.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, today ripped the committee and Politico for printing inaccurate portrayals of e-mail traffic between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others in fall 2012, as the administration was facing a backlash over its handling of the Benghazi attacks. “[I]t now appears that someone who was given access to the Select Committee’s documents leaked doctored information to the press in order to make unsubstantiated allegations against Secretary Clinton,“ writes Cummings in a letter to Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the select committee’s chairman.
At issue is this June 17 Politico story by staff writers Kenneth Vogel and Rachael Bade, a scoop that detailed the interactions of Clinton helper Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton “enforcer” David Brock and the groups that he (Brock) had founded, including Media Matters for America. Blumenthal, as Politico reported, received more than $10,000 per month from Brock’s groups.” The story relied on “sources” for detailed information on e-mail exchanges among the parties. The background for those exchanges is the political volatility of Benghazi, the Sept. 11, 2012, Libya attacks that claimed the lives of four U.S personnel. Obama administration officials were under scrutiny for not only leaving the U.S diplomatic installation in Benghazi vulnerable, but also for allegedly misleading the U.S. public about the nature of the attack.
Here’s how Politico initially reported an exchange between Blumenthal and Clinton:
“Got all this done. Complete refutation on Libya smear,” Blumenthal wrote to Clinton in an Oct. 10, 2012, email into which he had pasted links to four Media Matters posts criticizing Fox News and Republicans for politicizing the Benghazi attacks and challenging claims of lax security around the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, according to a source who has reviewed the email exchange. Blumenthal signed off the email to Clinton by suggesting that one of her top aides, Philippe Reines, “can circulate these links,” according to the source. Clinton responded: “Thanks. I’m pushing to WH,” according to the source.
The people that vote for him cannot either.
Media Matters is a 501(c)(3) organization whose tax-exempt status hinges on its adherence to a stated mission of “correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media” — not of assisting a sitting Democratic secretary of state. Portraying Clinton as closing the loop on the work of Media Matters carries an extra pinch of partisan spice.
Cummings: We want da troof, da whole troof, and nothin’ but da troof.
The Democratic House Nigga.
Ridding the Congress of the Black Racist Caucus would boost the average Congressional IQ by at least five points.
Oh you noticed Queen Shelia (I’d walk a mile to make sure I have my ugly mug on a camera) Jackson Lee? She’s such a disgrace.......much like Cummings. Stupid voters bring stupid embarrassments to WDC.
The classic “big buck” I learned about over 60 years ago.
Following the big medias’ lead, many people are confusing the Hillary testimony with the work of the committee.
Cummings et al, are desperate that the Committee end immediately, so the majority cannot analyze all the evidence, connect all the dots, document all the lies and contradictory stories, and present it all in a comprehensive report.
I am not sure how to read Gowdy at this point. He seems disgusted with Washington corruption and having to work beside ignorant clowns who get a pass for outrageous conduct. He has no support from his own party leadership, who see this as another opportunity to surrender. I fear the “worst weeks of his life” involved being threatened, and forced to fold.
Elijah Cummings is about as corrupt and morally bankrupt as they come.
Cumming’s kept criticizing spending $20 million on this hearing.
When was the last time you heard a democrat worry about spending our money?
It might have something to do with current demographics of his district.
Obama isn’t going to have the DOJ Prosecute Lois Lerner (statement verifying that made 2 days ago), so he isn’t going after Cummings.
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