Raw Story: House Oversight Committee ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings on Sunday said that the so-called scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of tea party groups was “solved,” but Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has refused to release the testimony of a “conservative Republican” IRS manager because it indicated that the White House was not involved.
Last week, Issa had told CNN host Candy Crowley that IRS agents “were directly being ordered from Washington,” but he declined to produce complete transcripts of the testimony of IRS employees to back up his claims.
On Sunday, Cummings explained to Crowley that he had “begged” Issa to release the full transcripts.
“He’s the chairman of the committee, we’re not in power,” the Maryland Democrat pointed out. “If he does not release them, I will. Period.”
Republicans lie and then try to hide release of the truth. Along with the fact all these billionaire backed conservative superpacs perjured themselves in their applications to the IRS, that should be the main lesson of the IRS "scandal."
And somebody needs to hold some hearings into Issa's lying. If the witnesses are sworn to tell the truth then for sure the chairman on the committee should be under the same oath. He needs to go.
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