An Arrogant and Lawless IRS
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 24th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
An Arrogant and Lawless IRS
Michael Gerson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — Noted management expert and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was apparently called out of retirement — like the Ted Williams of evasive, unapologetic bureaucrats — to destroy what is left of his agency’s credibility. At immediate issue is two years of subpoenaed emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner to outside agencies, lost in a convenient computer crash. The possible involvement of other agencies is one focus of a congressional investigation into the heightened IRS scrutiny of conservative nonprofit groups before the 2012 election. In recent congressional testimony,…