Op-ed:
Let the games begin...
By: Diane Sori
Let the games begin...
By: Diane Sori
On the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings, Acting (until next week) IRS Commissioner Steve Miller was put in the hot seat and grilled over the IRS targeted of conservative groups who applied for tax extent status.
Stuttering and stammering during this first congressional hearing,
and obviously trying to dismiss the entire issue as NO big deal,
Miller’s testimony was paramount to stonewalling, for by refusing to
disclose pertinent information, like naming those directly responsible,
Miller, in a blatant in-your-face attempt, tried to mislead Congress.
And even when he finally did admit that ‘some errors’ were indeed made
because, according to him, employees wanted to “expedite the process and
be more efficient due to an increase in the workload” and that those
organizations in question were grouped for “consistency and quality” and
NOT for political reasons, we know this NOT to be true because Miller
oh so conveniently left out that the ‘expediting’ was done only to
Conservative, Christian, and pro-Israel groups asking for tax-exempt
status and NOT done to any liberal leaning groups or pro-Obama groups at
all.The number of complaints filed against the IRS all with the same political leanings proves Miller to be a liar.
As such, his testimony or lack thereof was NOT unexpected, but will still help Republicans prove that the Obama administration knew the IRS was targeting only conservative groups. In fact, J. Russell George, the Treasury Department’s inspector general and man who filed the report on the political targeting, disclosing under oath that the Obama administration was very well aware of this targeting during the year leading up to the election, but deliberately kept that information under wraps so as NOT to make waves during Obama’s re-election campaign.
And I guarantee you that if Obama administration officials knew…Barack HUSSEIN Obama knew it himself.
Mr. George also testified that in June 2012 he told senior Treasury
officials, including Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin, that as part of
routine briefings about ongoing audits he would be conducting in the
coming year, that he was auditing the IRS’s screening of political
organizations seeking tax exemptions but that he did NOT tell the
officials of his conclusions that the targeting had indeed been
improper.And while Obama keeps denying in very carefully crafted language (as witnessed at Friday’s press conference) that he any knowledge whatsoever of what his administration had been up to, and as he pretends angry indignation about the IRS targeting his conservative foes, he keeps claiming that he didn’t personally know about the investigation into the IRS until it was made public…yeah and pigs fly…the Democrats only concern seems to be that this scandal would be used by Republicans to score ‘political points’.
But truthfully, political points are a given as on Thursday it was
found out that Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS official who led the
tax-exempt organization’s unit when the targeting of conservatives took
place, has been moved over to the ‘supposedly’ non-political IRS unit
responsible for overseeing the many provisions regarding taxation,
penalties, and fees associated with the dreaded ObamaCare.Now ain’t that happy news…talk about garnering political points and the Republicans didn’t have to lift a finger to get them.
And so the political theater will continue as lawmakers vowed this hearing will be just the first in a series of investigations that might even lead into a criminal investigation with charges being filed…hopefully against Barack HUSSEIN Obama because I can safely bet that all roads lead back to him.
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You're very welcome on both accounts.
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