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> t Sought Lois Lerner’s Help to Prosecute Tax Exempt Groups Engaging in Politics
EXAMINING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S
RESPONSE TO THE IRS TARGETING SCANDAL
Mr. Jordan. OK, finally, and then I will let the ranking
member have some time, too, before we conclude. I just want to
go back to what the chairman--just to reiterate this because it
is so frustrating to me and it is so frustrating to so many of
the good folks I get the privilege of representing in the 4th
district of Ohio.
When, in fact, you have the fact pattern we do, the FBI
leaking to the Wall Street Journal and no one is gonna be
prosecuted. The President prejudicing the case with his
comments about no corruption, not even a smidgen. The fact that
Barbara Bosserman is the lead investigator, part of the team,
and is a max-out contributor to the President's campaign.
The fact that Richard Pilger and Jack Smith had interaction
with Lois Lerner in 2010 and 2013. That you had a data base of
1.1 million pages of taxpayer information, donor (c)(4)
information, you had it for 4 years, and some of that
information was confidential.
All that fact, all that cries out for a special prosecutor.
And I would think you would want it just so you can say,
``Look, we are gonna get to the--we are gonna be as unbiased
as--we are gonna.'' That would be a welcome thing to do to find
someone Republicans, Democrats, everyone could agree on. Oh,
fine, let them--let them do the investigation.
That would be something seems like you would want. So if,
as Mr. Gowdy pointed out and I think others have pointed out,
if that doesn't warrant a special prosecutor I don't know what
does. I do not know what--and when I look at the elements
contained in the statute, I don't--if that doesn't meet it, I
don't know if you ever could meet it. And with that, I will
end. And I do thank you for being here today, Mr. Cole.