Darrell Issa Refuses To Release ‘Evidence’ That Obama Conspired With IRS To Target Tea Party

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Darrell Issa Refuses To Release ‘Evidence’ That Obama Conspired With IRS To Target Tea Party

By Igor Volsky on Jun 11, 2013

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is refusing to release transcripts of interviews with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents that allegedly prove how political officials in the Obama administration directed the IRS to target conservative groups applying for 501 (c)(4) status.

The California congressman, whose committee is conducting an investigation into the agency’s behavior, provided CNN excerpts of interviews with IRS agents on June 2 and assured host Candy Crowley that “the whole transcript will be put out.” The portion purported to show an IRS official conceding that “directions” for to treat Tea Party groups “emanated from Washington,” though Issa himself conceded that that excerpt was not definitive.

But in a letter to the top Democrat on the Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Issa appeared to back away from his pledge, arguing that releasing the transcripts would “needlessly jeopardize the integrity of the investigation and hamper the Committee’s ability to get to the truth.” Experts, he contested, are useful and “serve to provide important updates to the public” and “empower other witnesses to become whistleblowers.”

During his appearance on CNN, Issa called White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a “paid liar” and claimed that the spokesperson is “making up things about what happens in calling this local rogue,” leading several Republicans to speak out against his tactics. A week later, Cummings appeared on CNN to challenge the Chairman. “I want those transcripts to be released,” Cummings said. “I’m willing to come on your show next week with the Chairman with the transcripts if he agrees to do that. If he doesn’t, I’ll release them by the end of the week.”

Cummings insisted that the full interviews will demonstrate that “the White House was not involved in this,” pointing out that the Cincinnati IRS manager of the screening group, a career veteran at the agency who identified himself as Republican, told investigators that Washington did not direct the targeting. “I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development,” the individual told investigators according to a portion of the transcripts released by the Democratic staff on the House Oversight Committee.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/06/11/2141071/darrell-issa-refuses-to-release-documents-that-prove-obama-conspired-to-target-tea-party/?mobile=nc

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1. Wasn't he a felon?

[madinmaryland]

4. Grand Theft Auto Issa. nt

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5. Why is he even in office?

[sakabatou]

2. He probably doesn't have jack-shit.

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3. Why isn't Issa under investigation for manufacturing false evidence?

During the Bengazi investigation Darrell Issa and his staff was caught red handed doctoring emails and providing false evidence but no one recommended criminal justice for these illegal acts. Why not? He and his staff essentially lied to congress.