The Blaze: Ted Cruz Invokes Watergate in Blasting DOJ’s Probe of IRS Scandal
Sen. Ted Cruz made references to the Nixon administration and Watergate after the Justice Department declined to name a special prosecutor to probe the IRS targeting scandal in place of the Democratic donor who is currently leading the investigation.
“The investigator is a partisan Democrat who has donated over $6,000 to President Obama and Democrat causes,” Cruz said in a statement. “Just as nobody would trust John Mitchell to investigate Richard Nixon, nobody should trust a partisan Obama donor to investigate the IRS’s political targeting of President Obama’s enemies.”
Mitchell was one of Nixon’s attorneys general and was a key figure in the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon’s demise.
A letter to Cruz from Peter J. Kadzik, principal deputy assistant to Attorney General Eric Holder, said the DOJ would not appoint a special prosecutor.
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