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2014-07-18 Home Front: Politix

Shocker: DOJ Says No Need For Special Prosecutor In IRS Scandal

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Special prosecutors are a standard gimmick of the Dems on Republican Presidents.

The Dems had a special prosecutor for Donovan the Secretary of Labor and they had one for the Iran Contra tin hat scandal and of course the famous "leak" of a CIA operative who was about as undercover as Kate Upton on SI.

Of course now, the shoe is on the other foot...and do we really have enough people qualified to be special prosecutors with all of these scandals?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-07-18 01:11|| 2014-07-18 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Not really surprising given how corrupt the DOJ is.

Cover and concealment.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-18 01:18|| 2014-07-18 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 “It is very, very rare to use a special prosecutor,” Deputy Attorney General James Cole told a House Oversight subcommittee, adding that he and Attorney General Eric Holder determined the IRS case “didn’t meet any sort of standard to warrant a special prosecutor.”

Had the IRS been conducting public executions, it would not have "met" Holder's standard to warrant assignment of a special prosecutor, [unless of course, those executed were 'his people]. Elect a Chicago, Harold Washington south side Dem machine communist as POTUS and this is what you get. Who knew ?

Posted by BesoekerOnTheRoadAgain 2014-07-18 08:07|| 2014-07-18 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 DOJ response is similar to the Russian response to the Russian shoot down of the Malaysian airline in the Ukraine. Aparatchik doublespeak is the same wherever they are found.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-18 09:24|| 2014-07-18 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Those who are denying so vehemently the need for a special prosecutor are all Democratic elected officials or Democrat appointed officials. Yeah sure, they have no skin in the game. Right.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-18 09:29|| 2014-07-18 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Compare/contrast to Special Counsel (prosecutor + grand jury) for the Plame affair and the perjury/obstruction charges against Scooter Libby. DOJ had no problem going after a GOP person that was marginally involved, and using all kinds of prosecutorial process abuse to do so, up to and including massive withholding of information (e.g. Armitage was the leak, but was forbidden by Fitzgerald the prosecutor to go public or talk with the libby defense team)

This whole administration is rife with corruption. Holder should be hanged for it.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-18 10:25|| 2014-07-18 10:25|| Front Page Top

#7 The most immoral generation in American history. This generation will experience severe consequences.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-18 11:47|| 2014-07-18 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 What is really going to piss everyone off is that Obama will pardon everyone involved on his way out the door. Check mate.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-07-18 11:47|| 2014-07-18 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Do they have to be ~~indicted~~ charged or convicted before they are pardoned? Or can we wait until we have a new POTUS and then ~~indicte~~ arrest them all?

Posted by Bobby 2014-07-18 12:57|| 2014-07-18 12:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Good question. We should have seen this coming when old Joe the plumber was investigated. This goes back to day one with Obama.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-07-18 13:00|| 2014-07-18 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh I'm sure Eric Holder will charge them just before so that Obama can pardon them.

Personally I think after an election is completed, and the President is not the winner - he should lose the power to pardon.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-07-18 13:01|| 2014-07-18 13:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Bobby, as I understand it, they usually have to be convicted first. Although Ford pardoned Nixon before he was convicted.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-18 13:02|| 2014-07-18 13:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Ford pardoned Nixon before he was convicted.

I think that was just to wave anybody off who had the idea that an investigation would gain any traction. It was sucking down a lot of Ford's time.

Posted by gorb 2014-07-18 13:50|| 2014-07-18 13:50|| Front Page Top

#14 I can recall newsreels of Mussolini and his mistress swinging from lampposts. The citizens of Italy got p!ssed off.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-18 16:08|| 2014-07-18 16:08|| Front Page Top

#15 ~~DOJ~~ Obama Administrations Security and Wellbeing Apparatus

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-18 18:46|| 2014-07-18 18:46|| Front Page Top

#16 From this point forward, the DOJ is now clearly identified as such an apparatus.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-18 18:47|| 2014-07-18 18:47|| Front Page Top

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