Cruz: Holder Should Be Impeached For ‘Defying Congress And The Rule Of Law’ In IRS Scandal
April
11, 2014 10:08 AM - CBS DC
Sen.
Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he
doesn’t indict former Internal Revenue Service official Lois
Lerner, who is linked to the agency’s targeting of conservative
groups. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON
(WNEW) – Sen.
Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he
doesn’t indict former Internal Revenue Service official Lois
Lerner, who is linked to the agency’s targeting of conservative
groups.
Speaking
on Sean Hannity’s radio
program Thursday,
the Texas Republican labeled Holder the “most partisan attorney
general the country has ever had,” and added that Holder should be
impeached for “defying Congress and the rule of law.” Cruz cited
the attorney general’s refusal to indict anyone in the months since
the inspector general found that conservative and Tea Party groups
were singled out for tax purposes.
The
House Government Oversight and Reform Committee
voted 21-12 Thursday to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in
contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions regarding the
targeting of conservative groups.
Cruz
noted that while he was “very pleased” that Lerner is being held
in contempt by the House Oversight Committee, he said the Justice
Department has done little else to investigate the case because of
political reasons.
Cruz
extended his criticism of Holder to other top Democrats, accusing the
Obama administration of appointing a Democrat tied to the president’s
campaign to head the IRS investigation of conservative targeting.
Cruz said President Barack Obama has exhibited a “breathtaking …
pattern of lawlessness,” and said there has never been a president
who so “consistently ignores the law and brazenly defies the law.”
The
comments from Cruz follow a series of shots taken at Holder this week
from House Republicans, with one Texas Republican even refusing to
question Holder because he was held in contempt of Congress for
failing to produce documents from the Fast and Furious gun-running
scandal in the past. Rep.
Blake Farenthold said that
any other American outside of Holder “would be in jail” should
they fail to comply with a Justice Department subpoena.
Another
Texas Republican congressman, Rep. Louie Gohmert, engaged in yet
another tense exchange with a visibly angered Holder at a House
hearing on Tuesday, accusing the attorney general of thinking
“contempt is not a big deal.”
And
this is not Cruz and Holder’s first quarrel over the IRS scandal.
In
a January Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Cruz
told Holder it
was “astonishing” that so little had been done to investigate or
indict anyone in the wake of the inspector general’s findings of
improper targeting of the conservative-leaning organizations.
“In
the 280 days since that inspector general report, nobody has been
indicted,” Cruz said at the January hearing. “Not a single
person. In the 280 days since that inspector general report, it’s
been publicly reported that no indictments are planned. Today in this
hearing, you were unwilling to answer a question whether even a
single victim of targeting has been interviewed.”
As
Cruz accused Holder of playing politics with the investigation,
Holder denied any political angle.
“The
characterization of this lawyer as the lead lawyer on the case is not
correct,” Holder said in January, adding that “I don’t know
anything about the political activities of any of the people who are
involved in this investigation.”
Late
last month, Holder declined
to appoint a
special prosecutor to investigate the IRS, saying that Cruz’s
January request for a new appointment is “not warranted” because
the case does not present any political conflict of interest. – Benjamin
Fearnow
My comments: Today, the U.S. Government has no Justice Department because of the Lawlessness of Holder and Obama. Only God knows how far they will go.
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