THE HILL – House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is giving a jolt to the congressional probe of the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups with a new subpoena that was issued late Thursday night.
Issa and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have for months sought documents from the Treasury Department that they say could detail a wide range of interactions with the IRS well before the public learned that conservative groups were singled out for extra scrutiny.
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The subpoena, the second that Issa has issued since the controversy broke, came as House Republicans are struggling to find officials outside of the IRS with links to the targeting controversy — and as the matter has largely been shunted to the side by other issues such as ObamaCare.
“The American people deserve to know the full extent and breadth of the IRS’s misconduct and the Treasury Department’s awareness of this misconduct,” Issa and Jordan wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in September.
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