After the hearings were over, Judge Sullivan wrote an order calling the Administration’s resistance to his orders “nonsensical” and clearly stating that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and others “shall be directed to show cause as to why they should not be held in contempt of Court” if they continue dragging their feet.
“As leader of the IRS, Commissioner John Koskinen has repeatedly failed to take responsibility for the destruction of evidence by the agency an the numerous misstatements he made to Congress abut this matter. Because of his actions, and the actions of others at the agency he leads the American people may never know the truth about the IRS’ targeting for conservative-tax-exempt applications,” the lawmakers wrote Monday in the nearly 30-page letter highlighting the Committee’s findings against Koskinen and the IRS to comply with their probe.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) argued that the OPM hack has “sort of an act of war” and that there is “sort of this ghost war” involving hacking and security on Friday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox
“Investigators are blaming two IRS workers at a computer center in West Virginia for erasing thousands of emails related to the tax agency’s tea party scandal, impeding congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative political groups,” reports the Associated Press. “The workers might be incompetent, a lead investigator said Thursday, but there is no evidence they were part of a criminal conspiracy to destroy evidence.”
In a reversal from last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has returned the chairmanship of the Government Operations Subcommittee to Rep. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
House Oversight Committee Chairman Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said voting against the party was “a factor” among “a variety of factors” in Representative Mark Meadows’ (R-NC) removal from a subcommittee chairmanship and that the removal was not something he communicated with
Office of Personnel Management Director (OPM) Katherine Archuleta was unsure of how many employees and retirees’ information her agency oversees and might have been breached in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Archuleta was asked by Chairman Jason
Everyone knew Gruber was critical to ObamaCare, and when he was caught on tape high-fiving himself for helping to fool what he described as “stupid” American voters with the Affordable Care Act’s web of false promises and ludicrous projections, he was speaking from the Administration’s heart.
At the direction of Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz stripped North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows of his subcommittee chairmanship, just days after he broke with leadership on the House floor by voting against a party-line procedural motion.
Like the federal employees who have complained of being left to twist in the wind for months until the breach was acknowledged – and then forced to sit through days of stonewalling while officials revised their stories about how severe the penetration was, and how many people were affected – Chaffetz does not seem impressed with the transparency or vigor of the Administration’s response.
On Tuesday’s “On the Record,” host Greta van Susteren interviewed Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Chaffetz discussed an incident involving a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter coming under gunfire and confirmed an earlier Breitbart
Two members of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee arrived in Laredo on Sunday for a briefing about a Customs and Border Protection helicopter that made an emergency landing after taking fire from the Mexican side of the border. They will be meeting on Sunday and Monday with officials from the Air Branch and Marine Branch Sector Headquarters.
As Mexico’s security conditions continue to worsen, bipartisan Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Secretary of State John Kerry and asking him why U.S. Consulate Offices in that country should remain open given the out of control violence in that country.
“Not only did the two Secret Service agents endanger their own lives and innocent civilians by choosing to drink and drive, their poor judgement also imperiled the entire White House complex by bumbling into an active bomb investigation,” Rep. Bob Goodlatte said. He adds that “more must be done” to address the problems at Secret Service.
Agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have admitted to attending “sex parties” with prostitutes that were hired by drug cartels while on assignment in Columbia. The admission came during an investigation by the Department of Justice that began after a 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia was uncovered that involved agents of the United States Secret Service.
It appears that the two off-duty Secret Service agents who drove their black SUV through a crime scene near the White House on March 4 were quite intoxicated, according to surveillance tapes released by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday during its hearing on the matter.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz dropped a bombshell on FCC Chairman Wheeler at the very end of his two and a half hour appearance before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday: The FCC’s own IG, Chaffetz says, is investigating the agency’s imposition of Net Neutrality rules.
A full investigation will be needed. But it’s very difficult to imagine a scenario in which Hillary Clinton’s private mail server was not used to conceal, and perhaps destroy, documents covered by Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and congressional subpoenas.
According to a New York Post report, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) will head a panel, joining the House Benghazi committee, to investigate whether former Secretary of State and likely 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton broke the law in using a personal email account for official business while Secretary of State.
Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said President Barack Obama needs to “get over it” and come see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a joint session of Congress. Chaffetz scolded the president, saying,
In the blizzard of Obama administration scandals, don’t forget the IRS-Lois Lerner saga. That scandal is back in the news because some Lerner emails that were reported “lost” have been recovered, and the Treasury Inspector General seems to think they’re important.
Investigators in Minnesota want to learn more about ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber’s billing and modeling processes. But a key former bureaucrat is refusing to help.
Jonathan Gruber, the architect of ObamaCare, may face more questions from the House Oversight Committee.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) reported that Mitt Romney called him for “some advice and some perspective” about running for president in 2016 and that Romney “really does want to become president” in an interview broadcast on Monday’s “Kelly File” on
Sunday on CNN’s “State of The Union,” in discussing the possibility of former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) re-running for president in 2016, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said, “Well, he did call and we did speak and he said that he seriously
