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IRS Re-hires Hundreds Of Employees Fired For Cause--Including Tax Cheats
Democrats must be thrilled that the allegations involving the IRS deliberately targeting conservative groups in order to intimidate them or prevent them from participating in the political process have largely faded from the public mind. The left is content to insist that the agency has been absolved of any wrongdoing – not because it was actually cleared of any misconduct, mind you, but because the agency may also have unfairly targeted liberals as well as conservatives. That’s some defense.
But the IRS scandal uncovered in the spring of 2013, when Lois Lerner preemptively apologized for targeting conservative groups after planting a question about that as yet unknown controversy at a routine press conference, has not disappeared. As recently as December of last year, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) sixth and final report on the IRS targeting scandal accused the tax collection agency of incubating a “culture of bias.”
The Washington Post’s report on Issa’s final condemnation of the IRS is indicative of how the members of the political press, in particular, have written off the scandal as nothing more than a partisan witch-hunt.
“The report failed to show the White House coordinated with IRS officials to target conservative groups, a charge several Republican lawmakers made when the controversy first broke,”The Post reported. “Issa, who suggested then-White House press secretary Jay Carney was a ‘paid liar’ for suggesting a small number of IRS officials pursued this strategy on their own, made it clear the administration kept the committee from reaching a final answer on the question.”
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