Alright, today was a banner day with documents released from Congressman Issa, the Majority Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Today, the Committee voted to refer the Lois Lerner contempt resolution to the Department of Justice, meaning that yesterday, having Holder himself appear before the House Judiciary Committee was no accident in scheduling. Holder was asked several times about the work and or investigations regarding the IRS. Holder refused to answer any of those questions stating he would not respond due to pending investigation. That part is in fact accurate as the DoJ was ordered by the White House to investigate when the Treasury Inspector General published his report about the ‘targeting’ of conservative groups being back logged in processing.
It should also be noted that Eric Holder had real thin skin yesterday and today due to his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Seems he wanted to speak to his hurt feelings today at an organization founded by Al Sharpton, you know the guy who was just outed as an FBI informant and snitch, rat or as he says it a cat. This this out here.
The Congressman Issa also released his letter to the Minority leadership, Elijah Cummings on why his staff worked with Lois Lerner to specifically target ‘True the Vote’ and never revealed this during committee meetings and or hearings. There is proven collusion between Cummings staff and Lois Lerner, documented here.
It is also important to know that Elijah Cummings was on MSNBC last night and asked several questions, all of which he answered on national television, falsely. The transcripts and video can be seen here.
All of this came out today, as tomorrow, April 10, 2014, the full House votes to put Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress due to her refusal to offer any testimony on her knowledge and actions on targeting.
All the while, Lois Lerner longed to have a job at Barack Obama’s OFA, Organizing for America Political action group. Her email demonstrates this.
We do ask ourselves why Issa has not offered Lois Lerner immunity for testimony. Well, the reason is, Issa is on a sweep mission to scoop up all those in this IRS scandal and likely it will go to the White House and the DoJ. Lois Lerner did give testimony to the Treasury Inspector and someone at the DoJ last year. It is quite important to note that the first time Lerner appeared before the Committee, upon getting her plea of the 5th Amendment protection, Issa only excused her, he did not terminate the session so each time she spoke to anyone is any subsequent meeting she was still under oath and within the reach of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Issa carefully sought legal counsel on all of this and even more, he carefully crafted each move and decision. In the end, Holder’s DoJ can refuse to go further with a Lerner prosecution due to contempt, but the Issa can move to sanction or even disbar Holder for refusing the case and prosecution, after-all, Holder himself is still in contempt of the Committee.
If you are so inclined to read the 22 page contempt resolution sent to Holder’s DoJ today, it can be read here.
While this whole IRS scandal is dynamic in nature, several organizations that were targeted are going to have some legal fun when they do get to sue the IRS, most of all True the Vote.
