Video: Ted Cruz Grills Eric Holder On Investigation Into IRS Targeting Of Conseratives

Video: Ted Cruz Grills Eric Holder On Investigation Into IRS Targeting Of Conseratives

by Debra Heine 29 Jan 2014, 1:23 PM PDT

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/01/29/Video-Ted-Cruz-Grills-Eric-Holder-On-Investigation-Into-IRS-Targeting-Of-Conseratives

At a Senate Judiciary hearing, today, Sen. Ted Cruz took the opportunity to grill U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about the DOJ's eight month investigation into the IRS's improper targeting of conservative groups. 

At the hearing, Holder declared that the IRS investigation doesn’t warrant a Special Prosecutor and he steadfastly denied that the the current investigator has any conflict of interest, despite being a major Obama donor. As with all of the Regime's scandals, his excuse for not answering pertinent questions is, "I'm not going to discuss what we have done in an ongoing investigation."

That answer is of course designed to stall questioners until they run out the clock.

At the 5:10 mark, Holder denied he had any reason to believe the IRS investigation is conflicted, saying, “I don't have any basis to believe that the people who engaged in this investigation are doing so in a way other than investigations are normally done. That is by looking at the facts, applying the law to those facts, and reaching the appropriate conclusion. I don't have any basis to believe anything other than that is occurring.”

Sen. Cruz responded, “I would say a lot of American citizens have a basis to believe it, given 282 days have passed and no on has been indicted, 280 days have passed and many, if not all, of the victims have not even been interviewed. 280 days have passed and apparently the anger and outrage that both the President and you expressed has utterly disappeared. Indeed, in last night's State of the Union address the President did not so much as mention the word 'IRS.' So the anger and outrage sees very little manifestation in actual action."

In an exchange at the 9:41 mark, Cruz told Holder, “I would call upon you to carry out the tradition of independence that attorneys general have honored that office with for centuries and protect the integrity of the Department of Justice, given the political sensitivities, given the fact that individual citizens believe they are being persecuted by the Department of Justice for partisan reasons. It would further Justice and further the integrity of the Department of Justice for you to appoint a special prosecutor with a meaningful degree of independence to investigate and find out what happened, and I would suggest that any special prosecutor should have integrity beyond reproach, and not be a major Obama donor.”

Holder responded, “I don’t think that there is a basis for us to conclude on the information as it presently exists that there is any reason for the appointment of the independent counsel…The notion that somehow this has caused a loss of faith in this Justice Department is inconsistent with the facts.”

(Last I checked, Attorney General Holder had an approval rating of 23%.)

Eric Holder

Eric H. Holder Jr. is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration, was a board member for the American Constitution Society, and an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Note: Open Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was the predecessor for the Open Society Foundations, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Charles O. Rossotti is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the Booz Allen Hamilton, and was the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Booz Allen Hamilton is a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), and Obamacare.

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Robert S. Osborne is the EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

James S. Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Lester Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Henrietta Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Belizean Grove.

Belizean_Grove is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.

Deborah L. Wince-Smith is a member of the Belizean Grove, and was a member of the IRS Oversight Board.

IRS Oversight Board is a citizen’s board for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Charles O. Rossotti is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the Booz Allen Hamilton, and was the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Robert S. Osborne is the EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

W. James McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.

Boeing Company is a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA).

Barbara G. Fast was a VP at the Boeing Company, a VP for the CGI Group Inc., and is a friend of Keith B. Alexander.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

Obamacare is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.

Booz Allen Hamilton is a contractor for Obamacare, and the National Security Agency (NSA).

Keith B. Alexander is a director at the National Security Agency (NSA), and a friend of Barbara G. Fast.