The House of Representatives has introduced a resolution to impeach the commissioner of the IRS on several counts including failing to produce evidence and making false statements.
The United States House of Representatives has introduced a resolution to impeach the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, John Koskinen. The resolution was introduced before the House by the House Oversight Committee. It accuses the IRS chief of introducing false statements as well as failing to turn over certain evidence after receiving a subpoena.
This follows a letter sent to President Obama urging the president to remove Koskinen from his position as commissioner. The House, mostly led by Republicans, were accusing Koskinen, and others, of abusing their power by specifically targeting certain groups and organizations. In particular, the targeting of groups that lean toward the conservative end of the spectrum, according to Forbes.
There is, also, a movement afoot in the Senate as several U.S. Senators are, also, looking into the impeachment proceedings. The House is accusing the head of the IRS of obstructing justice and destroying certain evidence that they were looking for when they served him with a subpoena. The IRS destroyed 422 backup tapes that the House was looking to be produced for evidence in their corruption case.
He has also delivered false testimony to the House and provided information that was misleading at best. The House was looking for IRS official, Lois Lerner’s, emails in particular. The IRS knew that these particular emails were missing as long as a year and a half ago and they didn’t inform Congress. One Republican Senator, Pat Roberts of Kansas, stated that the Obama administration, maybe even the president himself, wielded the IRS as a blunt instrument against conservative groups and organizations in an effort to negate any power or national influence they may have in a political sense.
The challenge that many politicians, especially many Senators, see is that the IRS is circumventing laws and protocols in an effort to destroy the right of free speech for many people and organizations who they don’t see eye to eye with politically or philosophically. In an effort to thwart this, the Senate recently introduced a bill called the Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act.
