| It is the job of the top guy to look deeply enough into everything to ensure that he is not misled. If he did not do this, he should be fired for incompetence. Unless he actually was complicit in the cover up, in which case he should be impeached. But either way, clearly he lacks the instincts to properly clean up what he did not previously bestir himself to discover, and needs to be replaced even as the decision of defenestration or imprisonment is made. |
[WASHINGTONTIMES] While acknowledging that the IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
bungled tea party applications, and that he himself gave wrong information to Congress, agency Commissioner John Koskinen told politicians Wednesday he needs to remain at the IRS in order to clean it up.
At a hearing designed to lay the ground for his possible impeachment, Mr. Koskinen implied he was let down by his subordinates, who allowed hundreds of backup tapes to be destroyed, losing tens of thousands of emails from former senior executive Lois G. Lerner.
It is the loss of those emails, even as they were under a subpoena issued by Congress, that has landed Mr. Koskinen in the hot seat, with conservative Republicans demanding he be ousted from office for his behavior.
Mr. Koskinen in 2014 testified that all of the information was being preserved, but now says that was faulty information and he, too, was misinformed.
"I accept that it is up to you to judge my overall record, but I believe impeachment would be improper," Mr. Koskinen told the House Judiciary Committee.
I emphatically agree! Impeachment is a half-measure that clearly lacks finality and closure.
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