Washington Free Beacon: Cruz: DOJ Must Appoint Special Prosecutor to Investigate IRS Targeting
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) released a statement Wednesday calling on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS targeting of conservative groups. DOJ previously refused to appoint a special prosecutor.
Cruz said in his statement:
It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama Administration to claim that the investigator leading the investigation into the IRS’s illegal program has no conflict of interest. The investigator is a partisan Democrat who has donated over six thousand dollars to President Obama and Democrat causes. 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. Sadly, “in the discretion of the Attorney General,” Eric Holder has chosen to reject the bipartisan tradition of the Department of Justice of putting rule of law above political allegiance.
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