Watching the Republicans - Runaway Train

[Lamplighter]

Once more the Republicans are found wanting...
This time in their handling of their so-called "I.R.S scandal"

The full letter (PDF) to House Oversight Committee Chairman, (R)Darrell Issa, is here.

Atlanta Journal Constitution
From Reuters: By Jay Bookman
June 10, 2013

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In an official interview transcript released on Sunday
by Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings,
the [I.R.S.] manager said he and an underling set aside "Tea Party" and "patriot" groups
that had applied for tax-exempt status because the organizations
appeared to pose a new precedent that could affect future IRS filings...

Investigators asked (IRS manager John) Shafer if he believed
the decision to centralize the screening of Tea Party applications
was intended to target "the president's political enemies."
"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 manager answered, according to a transcript released by Cummings.

Committee Chairman, (R) Darrell Issa, who has claimed
that the interviews point back to Washington,
but has so far refused to release full transcripts.

Cummings has also released a letter to U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa,
chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,
harshly criticizing Issa for what he called "a series of unsubtantiated allegations
against the president, the White House and senior administration officials
with little or no evidence to support your claims."

In short, Cummings called Issa blatantly dishonest in his management of the committee.
Moreover, he went on to provide a point-by-point, damning dissection of the evidence
collected but not yet released by the committee involving the IRS.

He also urged Issa to release full transcripts of interviews with IRS employees
involved in the controversy.

If Issa, acting as committee chair, does not release the full transcripts by the end of the week,
Cummings has said that he will take it upon himself to do so.

[tw]

When do we start chasing Obama's penis?

[Griff]

It should be easy to take him down over Syria and the NSA but let's face it we have a one party system with two branches, substantive issues need not be addressed. I'm sure they're chasing the penis though.