Rep. Darrell Issa has promised to keep investigating the IRS and Benghazi scandals until Congress gets “full answers in every area.” With the Obama administration failing to cooperate, however, he suspects we won’t be getting to the full truth until Obama is ”packing his bags.”
Issa, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Sean Hannity that the committee is currently investigating whether the Internal Revenue Service’s chief counsel, William Wilkins, was involved in the targeting of conservative organizations. Witnesses have testified that lawyers in his office helped craft the guidelines used to process their applications. The California congressman also said that he intends to call Lois Lerner, the agency’s former head of Exempt Organizations, back for her testimony.
With regard to Benghazi, the congressman argues that the Obama administration seems to be telling Congress, “‘Forget about Nixon having to turn over his tapes… a court can’t order us’” to turn over anything. He told Hannity that in order to reign in the out-of-control administration, “We need transparency, and we need the president to understand that the courts and the Congress have a role under the Constitution equal to his.” He alleged that the administration has on numerous occasions misled or failed to disclose information to Congress, but that the facts will ultimately triumph.
Issa offered his guarantee that Congress will not be deterred from seeking the truth. The House Oversight Committee, he said, is “like that wind-up toy that when it hits one wall, it pivots” and continues on.





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