Grand Inquisitor Darrell Issa doesn’t want you to forget that his witch hunt(s) is ongoing and he’s prepared to yell at clouds if that’s what it takes to remind you.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) slammed White House spokesman Jay Carney as a “paid liar” Sunday over the administration’s handling of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal.
“Their paid liar, their spokesperson, the picture behind, he’s still making up things about what happened and calling this a local rogue,” Issa said, referring to Carney.
Issa claims there are “indications” that the order to scrutinize Tea Party groups for tax-exempt status came “right out of Washington.” His baseless implication is that local IRS field agents took their orders directly from the White House, although Issa has so far failed to produce evidence of that.
The fact that Issa’s latest claims appear to be failing apart before they can even take flight may complicate matters for him.
In a vacuum, this sounds bad. Why was Washington asking about tax-exempt status applications? But the transcript doesn’t tell you that the “technical unit” of the IRS division that handled applications for tax-exempt status was located in — wait for it — Washington D.C.
A timeline included in the IG’s report last month detailed many interactions between the “technical unit,” in Washington, and the “determinations unit,” in Cincinnati.
In a manner similar to how Fast and Furious transpired during the previous two years, each subsequent claim or implication is slowly being debunked one by one. And in that sense, Issa may be correct when he says the “whole truth” will eventually be revealed. The Whole Truth being that his latest attempt to back up his earlier (2011) claims that this is the most corrupt administration in history is another failure.