{"id":22727,"date":"2014-05-10T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22727"},"modified":"2014-05-10T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T21:19:07","slug":"holding-government-officials-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22727","title":{"rendered":"Holding Government Officials Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, I posted an article (rightwinggranny.com<\/a>) showing the likelihood of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> if you gave money to a Tea Party<\/a> group. Basically, one in ten Tea Party donors were audited compared to a rate of slightly more than one in a hundred for the general population. Obviously, there is a problem here. Congress<\/a> has been trying to find out who ordered the audit of Tea Party donors and who is responsible for using the IRS as a political weapon. The investigation has been stonewalled by the White House<\/a> and the Justice Department<\/a> every step of the way. Yesterday the U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> posted a story about the latest episode in this saga.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

David O’Neil, whose job atop the DOJ’s criminal division puts him in charge of public corruption prosecutions, told Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan<\/a> that he also doesn’t know how many prosecutors are assigned to the case, or how many attorneys from his division are working on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked to identify the lead agent in the Lerner investigation, O’Neil would only answer, ‘I’m sure that we can provide that information to you.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I’m just naive, but it would seem to me that the person in charge of the investigation might have some idea as to how many people are working on the investigation. Has he every bothered to count his emails? Does he actually get any emails?\u00a0 Note that this story was reported in a British paper–I haven’t seen the report in the mainstream American press.<\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

I oversee the public integrity section,’ O’Neil said during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing, adding that ‘yes,’ he is involved in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

He claimed there are ‘numerous career federal prosecutors that are on that investigation.’<\/span><\/p>\n

But when Jordan asked him how many are in that group, complaining that he has ‘been trying to get this answer now for 11 months,’ O’Neill conceded, ‘I can’t tell you that answer sitting here today.’<\/span><\/p>\n

O’Neill also suggested that the Department of Justice is unlikely to appoint a special counsel.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘No,’ he said. ‘A special counsel is not warranted.’<\/span><\/p>\n

When the House found Lerner in contempt, it referred her to Attorney General<\/a> Holder for prosecution, prompting an aide to a Texas Republican to call it ‘the slime probing the slime.’<\/span><\/p>\n

The female staffer told MailOnline<\/a> that ‘if Holder ever opens the Lerner file ore than once, I’ll strip naked on the National Mall<\/a> and sing the president’s favorite Al Green<\/a> song.’<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think the staffer is in any danger of having to make good on that promise.<\/div>\n
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It is sad that partisan politics has become more important than the integrity of public officials.<\/div>\n

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