Maybe it's just me, but I keep wondering how an Inspector General, who's a part of this Justice Department, within this current administration, would be any more reliable in getting to the truth of the matter. Oh, they're nonpartisan...I forgot. Right. Moving along...TheHill: The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general will review claims the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to waive public records fees for conservative groups while granting the waivers for environmental organizations.
Acting Administrator Robert Perciasepe asked the agency’s inspector general to review claims after GOP lawmaker accusations of a double standard.
The charges came up Thursday during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, where Republicans compared the EPA's actions to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.
Perciasepe told lawmakers he’s asking the inspector general to help conduct a “programmatic audit” of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request fee decisions.
Where the EPA seems to be a participating party in the conservative discrimination department, one Republican lawmaker cites a contentious corporate disclosure proposal that's before the Securities and Exchange Commission as a potential opportunity for a similar politicized scandal.
I think I've inferred this before, but I'll put it out there again: it's likely that every single executive department within Obama's administration are involved in similar discriminatory and overreaching scandals. After all, the evidence lies in the actions of the Partisan whom these department personnel emulate...and we know he's only out for certain Americans, if that.TheHill: Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling said the IRS’ apparent targeting of conservative groups raises questions about how pervasive “tactics of harassment” have become within the Obama administration, saying the scandal is “right out of the Watergate playbook.”
The Texas Republican, during a budget hearing, warned new SEC chairman Mary Jo White that her agency could similarly be viewed as acting in a partisan manner if it pursues a rule requiring public firms to report their political spending to shareholders.
Hensarling said the proposal “is well known to be part of a partisan political agenda of labor union bosses.”
The SEC announced late last year that it is considering whether to propose the disclosure requirements, sought by activist investors, unions, some Democrats and a coalition of consumer advocate groups who have flooded the agency with half a million comments urging the agency to move forward.
Business groups and many congressional Republicans say the SEC has neither the authority nor the expertise to tackle campaign finance reform, which is traditionally the jurisdiction of the Federal Election Commission. Foes of the proposal say it is a clear effort to drive business groups out of the political arena.
White is seen as having the deciding vote on whether to move forward with the proposed rule.
