Issa: FBI Impeding IRS Investigation

by JASmius

I know you’re as utterly not shocked as I am:

Representative Darrell Issa claims the FBI has delayed handing over information he requested about the Internal Revenue Service targeting of the conservative group True the Vote. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he may issue a subpoena.

According to Issa and Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the committee is still waiting for documents related to the FBI’s investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups that it began six months ago, the Washington Times reported.

In a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey Jr., Issa and Jordan say no information has been released, and the FBI has refused to allow the assistant director overseeing the investigation to brief the committee in person after saying it would.

Issa and Jordan allege political meddling, since the briefing was turned down after FBI officials met with the Justice Department.

“The department’s tactics have impeded a congressional investigation and interfered with the committee’s access to documents and information,” they wrote. “Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime.”

They have given the FBI until December 16th to respond.

And that will mean….what to the Regime?  They’ve been treating the House with contempt ever since the GOP took it back in 2010, stiffing Chairman Issa at every turn even as they keep his investigatory plate full with scandal after scandal and abuse of power after abuse of power.  Eric “The Red” Holder was held in contempt of Congress; had that ever happened before in the history of the country?  And how long ago was that?  Does anybody remember?

More than even La Clinton Nostra, the Obama gang truly and candidly believe themselves to be, and openly hold themselves as being, completely and utterly above the law.  That is what sets Barack Obama apart from any previous president.  And it illustrates, once again, the critical weakness even in a system as ingenious as the Founding Fathers bequeathed us: A constitutional federal republic only works and endures if everybody acknowledges, submits to, and plays by the same set of rules.  Once a party, and especially a president, breaks that faith, there is, quite literally, no way to stop them from doing anything they want to do, up to and including the destruction of the nation.

I know, I know, impeachment.  But I seriously wonder, if the House impeached The One and the Senate actually voted to remove him from office, whether O would simply refuse to leave.  The same concern exists for when his second, and constitutionally-mandated final, term expires.  Leave aside the $17 trillion of debt, the permanent depression, even ObamaCare; that is the true crisis that America faces, of which Darrell Issa’s serial frustrations are but a symptom.