A hearing by a U.S. House panel later this month could determine whether there is enough political will to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
The impeachment move was initiated earlier this year by House Freedom Caucus members, who remain angry the IRS illegally stonewalled and investigated conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status.
Koskinen, 77, was appointed in 2013 to head the IRS amid congressional investigations. Even though he did not oversee the illegal harrasment, he has drawn the ire of Republicans investigating the matter.
Koskinen is not the central figure in the scandal, a National Review editorial calling for his impeachment opined in June, but he is a “culpable figure.”
That’s because it was under Koskinen’s watch that “hundreds of backup tapes containing tens of thousands of e-mails — e-mails that were under congressional subpoena — were illegally destroyed, inhibiting investigation into the agency’s wrongdoing,” the editorial pointed out.
Despite alleged criminal activity within the IRS, Republican leaders in the Senate, afraid of the political fallout, have fought their House colleagues over calls for an impeachment vote that could fail in the Senate.
So an agreement was brokered to hold a special hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on September 21 to allow Koskinen to respond to the allegations.
Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, points out that Congress claims Koskinen lied in his congressional testimony, and also claim he was present when subpoenaed documents were destroyed.
“All of those are, I think, more than sufficient grounds to investigate whether he should be impeached,” von Spakovsky says.
Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch says Koskinen has been uncooperative with Congress and disrespectful to the idea that he’s subject to congressional oversight.
“He smiles at them very cheerfully and then tells them to drop dead,” Farrell says of Koskinen. “He’s a remarkably arrogant person and so far he’s gotten away with it.”
And he may escape punishment, news website Politico reported, thanks to Republicans who want to focus on the November election.
“I’m not sure it’s a wise thing to do before the election,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told the news website earlier this month.
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This guy represents the absolute worst (well, except Comey) in ‘public service’ that currently exists (realizing that things can get worse…). If Congress doesn’t do something about him, then, they should all resign their oversight positions.
Oversight.. WHAT oversight. THESE schleps have no spines to hold accountable even themselves, let alone a cretin such as this dunce.
He’s lucky I’m not in charge. I would administer some poetic justice. Use the power of the IRS to crush him and confiscate all his assets, holdings, real property, and personal property. Drain all his accounts and leave his family penniless, homeless, and without their primary breadwinner.
That’s because Jimmy McSmirk would be serving life without parole in a maximum security prison at hard labor, with no opportunity for parole, and therefore no lawyer or any access to the legal system.
Is that too mean for the trust that he’s violated and the crimes he’s so happily covering up?
Nope.. Just about right on the meanness level..
Typical RINO TRASH. Jacob Chaffetz goes on Fox News last week, shooting off his mouth how he was going to bring impeachment hearings against CROOK RAT Koskinen and then a few days later, Congress does not want to touch this, until after the election. This means that the RINOS in Congress will do nothing. Throw all of the RINOS in the Garbage dump with the RATS (DemoRATS). The Congress is good at eating garbage in the GARBAGE DUMP and it then comes out of their mouths.
If the wraith (Of star gate atlantis) existed, i would love to feed THEM ALL to the wraith.. At least then they would be useful for something.
If Trump is elected, he could perhaps refuse a Koskinen resignation, while placing him on administrative leave of absence…so that he is still a public employee and may be impeached by a house Republican majority and tried by a Republican senate majority. It would then be up to Senate Democrats to mount a successful filibuster…or the Senate could take a page from the Democrat playbook and cause the impeachment proceedings to proceed under a majority vote. This would put the 25 Senate Democrats on record–prior to their facing re-election bids in 2018.
If trump wins, i hope he FIRES this dunce right on the spot, THEN has the DOJ charge him with enough crimes he will NEVER again see freedom, and will spend the rest of his life (how ever short that may be) behind bars..