Shortly after the initial news broke of the targeting of tea party and other conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations Unit under Lois Lerner, President Barack Obama, doing his best to look like “just folks” by going without a tie, proclaimed to Bill O’Reilly that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” present in the IRS.
Whether he intentionally lied about it or was simply unaware of what his own government was doing, he was wrong.
Emails provided to congressional investigators previously illustrated her interest inhiding information from congressional oversight, and more recently her stronganti-conservative bias has also come to light.
Despite the fact that Obama decided in advance that the IRS had broken no laws–and the fact that he increasingly appears wrong about that statement–Democrats still want Americans to believe that no special prosecutor is needed to investigate the matter. They argue that investigation by the first attorney general ever to be held in Contempt of Congress is somehow adequate.
To that end, Democrats invited University of Baltimore Law Professor Charles Tiefer to provide expert testimony on the subject. What Democrats failed to fully appreciate is Representative Trey Gowdy’s impatience for bureaucrats like Tiefer, who hemmed and hawed and mumbled and did everything but provide direct answers to Gowdy’s questions.
You can see the entire exchange below or by clicking here.
Gowdy argued that Obama had already decided the outcome of any Justice Department investigation. “You can’t do that when you are the chief law enforcement officer for this country,” said the obviously angry South Carolina Republican.
Because of the president’s public comments–”[I]t wasn’t a hot mic situation where he’s whispering to Eric Holder…it’s on the most watched television show in our culture,” Gowdy said–it’s not credible that the result of any DOJ inquiry will be valid.
Representative Gowdy, a former prosecutor himself, is absolutely right. The idea that anyone can believably investigate themselves–even when they have good intentions and nothing to hide–simply doesn’t hold water. No human is capable of that level of objectivity in the best of cases.
And this isn’t the best of cases. This is an administration with a five-year history of obfuscation, stonewalling, and misrepresentation.
Gowdy and other conservatives are right to demand an independent investigation. It’s the best chance for Americans to get the truth they deserve.
http://conservativetribune.com/gowdy-questions-liberal-prof/
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