Friday, January 9, 2015

DIRTY HANDS: Emails Reveal Democrat Ranking Member, Elijah Cummings, on Investigative Committee is Also Guilty in IRS Scandal...

DIRTY HANDS: Emails Reveal Democrat Ranking Member, Elijah Cummings, on Investigative Committee is Also Guilty in IRS Scandal...


(by Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner) -- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has accused the panel's top Democrat of prompting the Internal Revenue Service in 2012 to target a conservative organization applying for non-profit status.
Issa said records obtained last week from the IRS show communications between the office of ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., about True the Vote, a Texas-based, non-profit conservative group that aims to prevent voter fraud.
The communications at one point involved Lois Lerner, the ex-IRS official who Issa's panel is poised to hold in contempt of Congress on Thursday for refusing to provide testimony about her involvement in targeting conservative groups.
“The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings’ staff,” a statement from the Oversight panel reads.

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