So, depending on a duty but that would be something to look into. You would investigate if they had a duty to disclose they had lost those documents . We would. Thats something you would investigate. We would. So you said emergency roarli relative to it depends, it depends on whether theres a problem with the fact that the commissioner at the irs knew in april and waited two months to tell us the American People and more importantly you. So youre going to investigate that aspect, as well, just like you would for a private citizen . All the issues relating to those emails will be wrapped up in the investigation that we do. Including delay . Including delay. So the delay, the fact that the commissioner at the Internal Revenue Service Delayed telling the congress, the American People, the fbi and the Justice Department is a matter that you are going to investigate . We are going do look into what the circumstances were around that, yes. Well, thats important. I would recognize the Ranking
You want when youre a governor. Governor branstad picked really wisely four years ago. Theres no reason to change a winning team right in the middle of a winning streak. So please give as much support to Lieutenant Governor reynolds as you give governor branstad. Shes earned it, and shes great. [ applause ] now here we are. Were at scott county. Now, you know, i probably shouldnt say this, but when i was walking in, branstad said this is the best county. This is just incredible. These guys, i never lose in scott county. I never lose in scott county. These are really good, good supporters of our party. And so for all of you who are here tonight, and i turn to the chair while governor branstad was talking and said, this is such an amazing turnout in the middle of july, for you all to be here, supporting this team and this ticket in the middle of july when you could be doing lots of other things, it is incredibly impressive for me to see all of you out here. And so i can tell you that wer
Schulman, in a 2008 president bush appointee was asked, did the Citizens United case in any way affect the irs process by handling tax exempt applications. His answer, no. To the best of my knowledge, it did not. Likewise, the head of the Elections Crime Branch said it is the law, so no, i am not aware of any effort or part of any effort to fix a problem from Citizens United. While republicans continue to promote their unfounded allegations, they conveniently overlook the furnling of dark money into elections. 501c organizations are not barred from participating in political campaigns. But the regulations are clear, they state political activity must be a substantial amount of the groups activity less than 50 . These groups can already gain Tax Exemption as a section 572 organization. That would require them to disclose their donors rather than keeping the American People in the dark about where theyre getting their money. As i repeatedly stated, anonymous money in politics disrupts th
Im not sure the Justice Department requested information or if the irs offered it. Im not sure how the idea when you get in the format you ask for, it sure likes like you asked for it. Im not sure of the actual idea providing that information to the Justice Department came up four years ago, but it was provided after the meeting. Im just reading your testimony. She indicated someone else would followup, but that did not occur. Why did not occur . I dont know. You dont know . Let me give you a reason why i think it might not have occurred. This corresponds, this meeting took place on may 8th 2013. Do you know what happened . Yes i do. What happened . She gave a speech and talk about the issue. Yes. She explained to the whole world the irs was caught with their hand in the cookie jar and were target targeting conservative groups. That is what a followup did not occur. Two days before the very lawyer who met with lois lerner and got that data base. Two days before she goes Public Meeting
The forces of the level were starting to come down and the Afghan Forces were not operating along the border because they had bigger issues to deal with deeper into eas in the east ande south. And so, while we had had Excellent Partnership across the border in 2009 and 2010 and some that stand in 2011, that partnership basically ended at the end of november and didnt pick back up again actually it still hasnt picked up again. The other issue was ultimately to attack the insurgent elements on the eastern side of the frontier that we needed for them to go after. And i ran as you may remember in the media i didnt spend a lot of time talking about but we ran a very concentrated operation against the knifes edge and being an partnershi in partnersf afghanistan that committed large numbers. It proved to be quite good as the troops and gave me the sense that we could accelerate the afghans moving into the lead of the crossborder coordination is a very serious issue. Its a major security issue