Issa Slams New IRS Chief: Agency
Still Withholding Documents
Wednesday, 26 Mar 2014 01:10 PM
By Melanie Batley
Rep. Darrell Issa, the House Oversight and
Reform Committee chairman tasked with running congressional investigations into
the IRS tea party targeting scandal, blasted the agency's new commissioner Wednesday,
accusing him of being more concerned with managing the political fallout than
cooperating with the probe.
According to Politico, the California
Republican went head-to-head with IRS Chief John Koskinen
over the "dismal" pace at which the agency was supplying documents
related to the investigation which the panel requested last year.
"Does a nonpartisan or nonpolitical
agency withhold documents requested during a congressional investigation? The
IRS does and did," Issa said, according to Politico. "You've been
more concerned with managing the political fallout."
Koskinen said that IRS employees have
spent nearly 100,000 hours and $8 million sending more than 1 million pages of
documents to the committees, Politico reported.
"We are working through the process.
We never said we wouldn't provide those. We will provide, we are actually
trying to, in an orderly way, conclude the investigation," Koskinen said,
according to Politico. "You may want this investigation to go on
forever."
Koskinen, who was sworn in as commissioner
in January, said at the time that the agency had provided the "vast
majority" of information requested by Congress, and that he believed the
investigation was in "the home stretch."
He also acknowledged at that time that the
scandal, which saw many cases of conservative groups being targeted for
heightened scrutiny, cost the agency the public trust but he hoped to turn that
around.
Other Republicans on the committee,
however, were clear that they do not trust the IRS and accused Koskinen of
obstructing the congressional probes.
"Our witness today won't get us
[former IRS official Lois Lerner's] emails. The guy who can give us the emails
won't give us the emails. The same people who pressured Lois Lerner to fix the
problem are the same people who picked John Koskinen to finish the job,"
Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said, according to Politico.
Democrats on the investigation's panel say
Republicans are deliberately trying to give the controversy new life purely out
of political motivations.
"This is all to feed the base. It is
designed to get certain groups all riled up in time for a midterm election.
There are some of us here that wish you well and will try to cooperate with
you," Democratic Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly said,
according to Politico.
"[But] be aware, unfortunately this
committee has a history of cherry picking the facts."
John Koskinen
John A.
Koskinen is the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
and a director at the AES Corporation.
Note: Charles O.
Rossotti was the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
is the chairman for the AES Corporation,
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and a director at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Philip Lader
is a director at the AES Corporation,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Philip A.
Odeen was the chairman for the AES Corporation,
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and a director at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Edward
Snowden was an employee at Booz Allen Hamilton,
and leaked information about the National Security Agency
(NSA).
Booz
Allen Hamilton is a contractor for the National Security Agency
(NSA), and a contractor for Obamacare.
Robert
S. Osborne is the EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen
Hamilton, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, and
a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and a member of the Belizean Grove.
Mary
Agnes Wilderotter is a member of the Belizean Grove,
and her sister is Denise M. Morrison.
Denise
M. Morrison is Mary Agnes Wilderotter’s
sister, and a member of the President's Export Council.
W.
James McNerney Jr. is the chairman for the President's
Export Council, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Andres
R. Gluski is a member of the President's Export Council,
and the president & CEO for the AES Corporation.
John A.
Koskinen is a director at the AES Corporation,
and the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
IRS
Oversight Board is a citizen’s board for the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS).
Deborah
L. Wince-Smith was a member of the IRS Oversight Board,
and is a member of the Belizean Grove.
Henry A. Kissinger
is a member of the Bohemian Club, a
director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Charles
O. Rossotti is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), the chairman for the AES
Corporation, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton,
and was the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
John A.
Koskinen is a director at the AES Corporation,
and the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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