{"id":22300,"date":"2014-03-21T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22300"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:12:37","slug":"what-irs-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22300","title":{"rendered":"What IRS Scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBN News<\/a> is reporting today that the Justice Department<\/a> has refused to appoint a special prosecutor<\/a> to investigate the IRS<\/a> Tea Party targeting scandal.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> had requested that the Justice Department assign a non-partisan special counsel to the case, rather than relying on the Obama administration<\/a> to investigate itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Obama DOJ appointee Peter J. Kadzik recently wrote to Cruz<\/a>, telling him a special counsel was unnecessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kadzik said\u00a0 that a special counsel is only “appointed when an investigation or prosecution by the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest…such that the public interest would be served by such an appointment.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the scandal broke, the Obama administration appointed a major Obama campaign<\/a> donor to investigate the IRS instead of an independent prosecutor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The American Center for Law & Justice<\/a> agreed, saying the Justice Department’s decision not to appoint an independent prosecutor “contributes to a troubling and growing pattern of obstruction.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“An independent prosecutor – with no political agenda – is truly needed to uncover the origin and depth of this unconstitutional targeting scheme. By rejecting this request, the Justice Department puts politics ahead of the rule of law,” Jay Sekulow<\/a>, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ, said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Sadly, in the discretion of the attorney general, Eric Holder<\/a> has chosen to reject the bipartisan tradition of the Department of Justice of putting rule of law above political allegiance,” Cruz also said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately we currently have no justice in the Obama Justice Department.<\/p>\n

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