The House has sent a letter to the new Attorney General:
Specifically, the committee provided documents that show three acts by Ms. Lerner that may have violated criminal statutes. One, she helped to target only conservative organizations, thereby robbing them of equal protection and due process. Two, she may have impeded the Treasury inspector general’s investigation of the matter by giving misleading statements. Three, she risked exposing (and may have exposed) confidential taxpayer information by using her personal email address to conduct official business.
And that’s only what we know so far. Congress’s problem is that the IRS has stonewalled it at every turn. The Treasury inspector general, J. Russell George, has become tentative after all the Democratic criticism of his probe. It seems the Justice Department is the only body with the powers to shake loose some answers about what happened.
The Ryan letter asks Ms. Lynch to tell him the status of that referral, and Speaker Boehner chimed in with a statement calling for the new attorney general to prove to Americans that “justice will be served.”
Ms. Lynch’s response will be enormously telling about her view of her job.
It will. But don’t hold your breath.
When a criminal administration eventually has to go, they attempt to paper over the most egregious of their felonies by performing some small “give” knowing it will be reported by the appropriate sources as something huge. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the DOJ take Lerner and perhaps one or two others and give them a slap on the hand. Thereby smoothing over at least one aspect of the Democrat’s most criminal administration ever.
Nothing is going to happen. Today’s Democrat party gets off on scapegoating their political opponents and punishing them for things they didn’t do out of a desire for social justice.
You can see the mentality among the activist class who view their actions as vengeance and racist retribution.
Oooh a letter! And what is Congress going to do when the IRS ignores them, again? Send another letter, more harshly worded this time?\
Quit pissing around. Until Lerner is cooling her heels in a cell, nobody is going to believe Congress is serious.
Hey don’t knock letters. Strongly worded letters have worked wonders reining in Iran, Boko Haram, and North Korea.