IRS Scandal: "Lois Lerner Was the Tip of the Iceberg"

More IRS Outrage: Agency Used 'Hundreds of Lawyers' to Hide Information from Congress

. . .According to new bombshell testimony, the IRS set up a previously unknown “special project team” comprised of “hundreds of attorneys,” including the IRS Chief Counsel (one of only two politically appointed positions at the IRS).

The “special project” this team was given? Concealing information from Congress.

The IRS’s director of privacy, governmental liaison, and disclosure division, Mary Howard, testified that soon after the IRS targeting scandal was revealed, the IRS “amassed hundreds of attorneys to go through the documents [requested by Congress] and redact them.” She told Congress that once the “special project team” was created and operational, she never saw requests for information.

Her testimony is clear: As soon as the IRS targeting scandal broke, the IRS set up a special team of hundreds of attorneys, including President Obama’s political head of the Chief Counsel’s office, to keep requests for publicly available information away from the person who would normally review those documents and turn them over to Congress and the public. That “special” team then overly redacted, delayed, and determined which documents it wanted Congress to see.
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When asked about these revelations and the ongoing investigation by Congress into the IRS and former top IRS official Lois Lerner’s involvement, Howard testified, “I think that Lois Lerner was the tip of the iceberg.”

It's pretty clear that the IRS under Preznit Obama has become a partisan arm of the DNC. Congress is right to jeep restricting it's funding until it starts doing its job in a nonpartisan way. Even better (but very unlikely) would be to adopt my "affirmative action" plan, and fire half the current IRS staff randomly and replace them with Republican agents, and let the two sides keep each other honest, or at least even.

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