Trey Gowdy goes for the throat in Capitol Hill showdown with IRS head honcho

Examiner.com

Examiner.com

 Transcript of the session here.

"From the South Carolina's Upstate 4th Congressional District, Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy mercilessly hammered IRS Commissioner and fellow lawyer John Koskinen during a rare late night committee hearing. A graduate of Yale University School of Law, Koskinen was held to task for failing to take the time to "read the relevant criminal statutes," while almost simultaneously claiming he personally hasn't witnessed any evidence of criminal wrongdoing at the IRS targeting of conservative groups, such as the Tea Party

(seen in its entirety in the video)."

Victor Davis Hanson: Federal agencies now exist not for the public good but for their employees’ benefit and Obama’s agenda.  ... "In other words, we are witnessing a new federal government that is a sort of rogue organism that exists for its own enhancement and is willing to do anything necessary to help those who help it.

"This is not America. It is like most failed states abroad, which also are not America."

This is a good stand-alone post that we will post separately tomorrow .

 

Rush Limbaugh: Koskinen Typifies the Arrogance of the Regime   "Now, fine, Obama can put in there whoever he wants, but we have the responsibility of knowing what that means.  The IRS is supposed to be an objective, blinded-by-politics agency.  None of that is supposed to matter, and we know that it does matter totally with this Regime.  So that's who this guy is.  He's an arrogant, condescending know-it-all who doesn't know nearly what he thinks he knows.  Who doesn't know who told him about Lois Lerner's e-mails.  He has no idea. " 

The IRS E-mails: The Unbelievable  

 ... "But, as good citizens, we are supposed to believe the unbelievable:

1. The IRS just happened to cancel the services of an e-mail backup company two months after receiving a letter from congress referring to targeting of conservative groups.
2. Lois Lerner’s hard drive just happened to crash in June 2011, just 10 days after receiving the letter from Congress.
3. Another person at the IRS whose e-mails could be of interest in the investigation had her hard drive crash in December 2011.
4. These crashed hard drives were the only source of these people’s e-mails.
5. The company Sanasoft, which was doing data backup during the period of 2009 to 2011 – the period where Lois Lerner’s e-mails were of interest – does not have any of the backed up data for that period.
6. The IRS did not set up any other method for backing up and archiving e-mails once the contract was canceled with Sonasoft.
7. There is no other way to recover these e-mails – they are simply lost.

"I know the administration believes the average citizen is incredibly gullible or stupid – or both – but do these people really expect us to swallow all of these events, and their timing?  Please!"