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Darrell Issa's IRS Investigation Is Falling Apart

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Last month’s revelation that IRS agents had singled out Tea Party groups for special scrutiny gave Darrell Issa a purpose in life. Here was an issue that seized public attention and posed a legitimate threat to Obama. Since then, nobody in Congress has pushed harder than Issa to pin the scandal on the White House. But after a burst of attention, Issa’s investigation appears to have stalled. Although he turned up embarrassing material—has any government official been humiliated quite like the IRS commissioner in the dorky video dressed up as Spock?—Issa hasn’t made the all-important connection to the White House. And he may not be able to. The news this week that he won’t release the full transcripts of his interviews with IRS officials—interviews he selectively quoted from to imply White House complicity—suggests that what they contain may in fact exonerate the administration of the very charge Issa is laboring so hard to prosecute.
“Your push to release entire transcripts from witness interviews while the investigation remains active was reckless and threatened to undermine the integrity of the committee’s investigation,” Issa wrote in response to a letter from his Democratic counterpart, Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who himself had selectively quoted the transcripts and then called on Issa to publicize the whole thing.

In theory, Issa could be building a case against the White House to rival Watergate that he just isn’t quite ready to unveil. But that’s highly unlikely. Cummings has seen the transcripts and wouldn’t call for their release if they contained information that would fell his party’s president. Issa’s weak-tea defense of why he won’t comply—witnesses might be demoted or fired, he says—only buttresses this suspicion. So does the effort by Issa’s colleague, Representative Dave Camp of Michigan, to broaden the investigation’s scope to include donor audits. You don’t broaden an investigation if you’ve found the smoking gun and nailed the culprit.

Darrell Issa's IRS Investigation Is Falling Apart - Businessweek

Darrell Issa is an impotent as John Boehner.
 
No Issa defenders here today. I guess you don't want to look the fool that he has made of himself.
 
No Issa defenders here today. I guess you don't want to look the fool that he has made of himself.

If you don't believe this began, was orchestrated by, and was put into action by the Administration, in the full knowledge of Obama, then you are a helpless, gullible fool.
 
If you don't believe this began, was orchestrated by, and was put into action by the Administration, in the full knowledge of Obama, then you are a helpless, gullible fool.

There is no evidence to support that it was. If you believe that it was despite having any evidence, who is the gullible one here?
 
There is no evidence to support that it was. If you believe that it was despite having any evidence, who is the gullible one here?

Yes, it has to be investigated and proven in the committee, but I have two eyes, a brain, and I've been paying attention, so I also know that there is a 99.99999 percent chance this was hatched by Axelrod or another of Obama's Chicago crips.
 
The American people simply want a fair and honest investigation.

the IRS is guilty, so I'm not sure how the investigation is falling apart.

what I see is liberals jumping for joy that the investigation likely wont lead to impeachment of the president, but government is still out of control. why the celebration over that fact?

because you are a a shill?
 
Yes, it has to be investigated and proven in the committee, but I have two eyes, a brain, and I've been paying attention, so I also know that there is a 99.99999 percent chance this was hatched by Axelrod or another of Obama's Chicago crips.
Don't put any money on that claim, I would hate to see you lose your money foolishly.
 
Funny how Issa refuses to release the entire transcripts of his interviews with witnesses. When Elijah Cummings released additional partial transcripts and implored Issa to release the entire transcripts, Issa cried fowl. Issa is a fool and all Obama has to do is stand there to make him look worse.
 
Funny how Issa refuses to release the entire transcripts of his interviews with witnesses. When Elijah Cummings released additional partial transcripts and implored Issa to release the entire transcripts, Issa cried fowl. Issa is a fool and all Obama has to do is stand there to make him look worse.

About as funny as someone stating their innocense, then pleading the fifth.

Wow, you guys live in fantasy land.
 
About as funny as someone stating their innocense, then pleading the fifth.

Wow, you guys live in fantasy land.

They really do, don't they.. If it were Bush OMG what we would have to endure here at DP. :)


Tim-
 
No Issa defenders here today. I guess you don't want to look the fool that he has made of himself.

You and the other Obama apolgists are ones looking like a foolish sock, posting thread after thread about Issa. Get shown out for the partisan apologists you are in one thread, you just start a new one. Cummings is a confirmed Obamabot who has his knickers in a twist because Issa wouldn't let him play co-chair.
 
About as funny as someone stating their innocense, then pleading the fifth.

Wow, you guys live in fantasy land.

They really do, don't they.. If it were Bush OMG what we would have to endure here at DP. :)


Tim-

it's nice to know that some right wingers agree that bush* cheney were involved in planning 9/11

 
There is some compelling evidence to suggest that the IRS was used as a tool to curtail the political advantage awarded to Republicans as a result of the Citizens United ruling a few years ago. Anyone remember Obama's State of the Union Address in January of 2010? Here's part of it...



In an unprecedented move, the President basically scolded the Supreme Court in front of the entire nation. He was so pissed off about that ruling that he let the court "have it" in front of a worldwide audience. This was January 2010.

In November of that same year the Democrats suffered a rather severe beating in the mid-term elections. Did the fact that corporations were able to literally donate as much as they wanted, and "anonymously" at that, have any impact on the results? You bet.

Fast forward to about a month ago. The IRS scandal breaks and it turns out that IRS Director Douglas Shulman's wife is an executive for and organization dedicated to "removing private money from political campaigns".

IRS director married to leftist activist? | Opinion - Conservative

Kind of an odd coincidence that the IRS Director's wife works for a group dedicated to eliminating exactly what the Citizens United ruling enabled, don't you think?

While none of this is any sort of real proof it certainly does provide a little clarity as to a possible motive. That ruling by the courts had the potential to tip the balance of power. You combine that with a bunch of right leaning organizations seeking 501c4 status(meaning they can legally hide their donors) and now you've got the makings of an infrastructure that could become a political juggernaut. It sets up a HUGE advantage for Republicans. It seems plausible to me that, given the results of 2010, the Democrats had a vested interest in seeking ways to "level the playing field".

I could be dead wrong about this but it definitely raises suspicion.
 
it's nice to know that some right wingers agree that bush* cheney were involved in planning 9/11



If you can't see that difference.......wow.
 
LOL!!

You've got nothing! :lamo

You bring up Bush - again, for the millionth time - and you say that I have nothing?

Do you people have any other play in your playbook?
 
You bring up Bush - again, for the millionth time - and you say that I have nothing?

Do you people have any other play in your playbook?

I wasn't the one who argued that a refusal to testify was proof of guilt.

Kind of sucks when your own argument bites you in the ass, doesn't it?
 
I wasn't the one who argued that a refusal to testify was proof of guilt.

Kind of sucks when your own argument bites you in the ass, doesn't it?

And another distraction from the topic at hand. Your MO. By definition taking the Fifth does indicate it's likely guilt exists.
 
And another distraction from the topic at hand. Your MO. By definition taking the Fifth does indicate it's likely guilt exists.

Which is why it is likely that bush* and cheney were involved in the crime of 9/11
 
Which is why it is likely that bush* and cheney were involved in the crime of 9/11

And you're welcome to start a thread all about your theory regarding Bush/Cheney. This thread is about Issa's IRS investigation. As I said, just another distraction.
 
And you're welcome to start a thread all about your theory regarding Bush/Cheney. This thread is about Issa's IRS investigation. As I said, just another distraction.

Yeah and on that thread you've post completely differently because conservatives are simply incoherent on this issue. If the GOP does it, it's good. If the Democrats do it, it's bad.

Pitiful.

The wonderful thing is most Americans get it, and Issa looks like a fool.
 
You bring up Bush - again, for the millionth time - and you say that I have nothing?

Do you people have any other play in your playbook?

Yeah, asking conservatives to be consistence in their criticism of policies is, I guess, asking too much. They're just partisan hacks.

Funny how you can't even admit that.
 
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