As Johnson has reported: “At the time, the deputy commissioner for services and enforcement — her boss — was none other than Steven Miller, who held the post of IRS commissioner from November 2012 until his resignation in May after the IRS scandal broke.” Grooms herself left the IRS in 2011 to rejoin House Oversight as its chief Democratic counsel. There she advises ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings on how to handle the IRS scandal, which involves the people she used to work with at the IRS. That’s called a conflict of interest, with bells on it.
There have to be major reforms in the civil service.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Mens Rea: Lerner sent confidential information in private emails. She knew it was wrong, and being a lawyer, she almost certainly knew it was illegal. If we didn’t have such a corrupt Attorney General, she’d be doing a plea deal right now, in exchange for telling everything she knows, and where the orders came from.