FOX News reported:
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:A House committee voted Wednesday to formally ask the Justice Department to consider criminal prosecution against ex-IRS official Lois Lerner, the figure at the center of the political targeting scandal.The House Ways and Means Committee voted 23-14 to send the criminal referral, which accused her of “extreme bias.” The vote marked an escalation in Republicans’ push to confront Lerner over her role in the agency’s controversial practice of singling out conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny.“If we don’t stand up for the right of the American people, who else will?” committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., said after the vote.A 14-page letter to Attorney General Eric Holder outlined Republicans’ case against the former IRS official, saying she “may have violated multiple criminal statutes.”The letter accused Lerner of using her position to improperly target conservative groups and deny their constitutional rights; of impeding an inspector general investigation by giving misleading statements; and of risking the disclosure of confidential taxpayer information.
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The way it works is this, Cummings will now double down on his email finding a justification even MORE unbelievable than the IRS criminal repressions.
She is not being held in contempt, that would me she had been placed in irons and sent to jail, but rather they have sent her case to a prosecutor for further action.
Yes, you're correct. I think your way of putting it is more precise.
However, Congress does function as a Court, in the sense that it can issue subpoenas, and hold hearings, and declare those who do not comply to be in contempt.
It is at their discretion to declare a person like Holder or Lerner to be "In Contempt of Congress."
If these people did not have the position of authority they have, they would be placed in jail.
Certainly, Holder, who has ignored a Contempt charge for almost two years running, deserves to be in jail.
The problem, of course, is that Contempt, or Impeachment, or any of the Congress's potential courses of action require the issue to be kicked back to the Justice Dept.
And we know Holder is not going to prosecute himself, or Obama's henchwoman, Lois Lerner.
We need a Special Prosecutor.
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