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IRS chief Koskinen says he was misled, doesn’t deserve impeachment
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... bungled tea party applications, and that he himself gave wrong information to Congress, agency Commissioner John Koskinen told politicians Wednesday he needs to remain at the IRS in order to clean it up. At a hearing designed to lay the ground for his possible impeachment, Mr. Koskinen implied he was let down by his subordinates, who allowed hundreds of backup tapes to be destroyed, losing tens of thousands of emails from former senior executive Lois G. Lerner. It is the loss of those emails, even as they were under a subpoena issued by Congress, that has landed Mr. Koskinen in the hot seat, with conservative Republicans demanding he be ousted from office for his behavior. Mr. Koskinen in 2014 testified that all of the information was being preserved, but now says that was faulty information and he, too, was misinformed. "I accept that it is up to you to judge my overall record, but I believe impeachment would be improper," Mr. Koskinen told the House Judiciary Committee. I emphatically agree! Impeachment is a half-measure that clearly lacks finality and closure. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-22 |
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