Elijah Cummings releases full transcript of IRS interview, leaves Darrell Issa looking like a punk

[marmar]

WASHINGTON -- In a rebuke to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has released the full transcript of a key interview with an IRS employee at the heart of the agency's scandal.

The 200-page transcript sheds additional light on the decision by the IRS to screen out tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status during the months and years leading up to the 2012 elections.

Republican and Democratic committee staffers interviewed IRS official John Shafer on June 6 about the agency's decision to scrutinize a tea party group's application for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status. Shafer, who identified himself as "a conservative Republican" and said he'd worked for the IRS since 1992, said that he and a fellow screener initially flagged a tea party group and continued to do so with subsequent applications in order to maintain consistency in the process.

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The information, some of which Cummings previewed two weeks ago, seems to contradict proclamations made by Issa, who previously said the White House had ordered political targeting of tea party groups but has not released full transcripts supporting the claim. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/irs-scandal-washington_n_3460904.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[malaise]

2. A punk would be a compliment for Grand Theft Auto Issa

who was also under a serious cloud of smoke for arson.
Issa should be in prison.

[madokie]

3. Correct

Grand Theft Auto Issa should be in prison not be a congress person

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Grand+Theft+Auto+Issa&t=canonical

[kentuck]

4. So long as the Repubs don't hear it on FOX...

and none of the Tea Party crowd read any of the "lame-stream" media, then nobody will ever know. They will still be talking about Barack Obama ordering it done a month from now. It will be as if this transcript never happened. It is indeed, a parallel universe.

[malaise]

5. DId Joe Scum say anything about it this morning? n/t

[kelliekat44]

7. No. I least i didn't hear it. And there won't be many posts recs here either.

Inconvenient truths are shunned by trolls and DINOs alike.

[abelenkpe]

8. +1000

[malaise]

11. Not true - DUers have been paying attention

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10023003533

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023042041

[mountain grammy]

15. Yes, we are paying attention.

Why would anyone on this site think anyone on this site isn't paying attention? That's why we're here.

[malaise]

16. LOL

[Vietnameravet]

14. Yup you are right..

We know their game well..

[Scuba]

6. Issa's a liar? Who knew?

Oh yeah. Everybody.

[Botany]

9. Once again Issa has a big fat nothing and tried to lie and say he had something

[Berlum]

10. "But, but, but....I am a Republican and Lying is what we do." - DissA (R)

[hue]

12. Spinning the truth--lying--"Who's gonna stop me??"-->Ayn Rand

[Vietnameravet]

13. Issa proven wrong..that can only mean one thing

Time to crank up another "scandal!" Bet they insist the media has distorted what Shafer said..

[mountain grammy]

17. Issa is a punk. It's one thing when Texas and Oklahoma elect idiots to Congress

but, for some reason, I expect more from California. Gerrymandering has allowed the rise of the worst of the worst.

[marble falls]

19. We here in Texas have very few great Congressmen, that's for sure. Lloyd Dogget is the only one....

I know by name and there's some from Houston and Dallas. But there's more than just Issa from California who stink: Gary Miller, Richard Pombo, John Doolittle, Duncan Hunter, Jerry Lewis ......

[mountain grammy]

20. I really didn't mean to insult our fellow Dems in Texas and Ok.

You are, for sure, some of the bravest people in America and Barbara Jordan was my favorite Congresswoman ever.

[marble falls]

23. No offense taken. Just admitting we haven't any of us have given the President a decent House.

[Mr Dixon]

18. Great Job

Good info thanks for posting

[chuckstevens]

21. The Media

Yes, and I'm sure ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox (not really media!) will have this as the lead story tonight. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[suffragette]

22. Issa would just love to be the next McCarthy or Starr

The Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus get this. Cheers to Cummings for exposing Issa's lies.