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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Democrats accuse Issa of meddling with IRS targeting probe

By Josh Hicks, WashPost, Updated: February 5 at 6:00 am

Two top Democrats on Tuesday accused House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) of orchestrating partisan meetings with the federal investigator who issued two scathing reports last year on Internal Revenue Service actions.

Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) and Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), both key Democrats on the panel, issued a letter to Treasury Department inspector general Russell George alleging that he held Republican-only meetings at Issa’s request.

Issa spokeswoman Becca Watkins shot back on Tuesday, saying Cummings has excluded Republicans on the committee from communications with the White House and Obama administration officials. She said the behavior “underscore the hypocrisy of his complaints about an independent government watchdog.”

Cummings and Connolly said George met with GOP committee staff on Jan. 27 to discuss an audit relating to data-security for the IRS and the Affordable Care Act. The letter stated: “Chairman Issa’s staff forbade you from including any Democratic committee members or staff in that meeting, and your staff accepted these terms without even informing my office.”

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