Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Who is Holly Paz?

During yesterday's hearings Congressman Darrell Issa made the following statement.
"Just yesterday the committee interviewed Holly Paz, the director of exempt organizations, rulings and agreements, division of the IRS. While a tremendous amount of attention is centered about the Inspector General's report, or investigation, the committee has learned from Ms. Paz that she in fact participated in an IRS internal investigation that concluded in May of 2012 - May 3 of 2012 - and found essentially the same thing that Mr. George found more than a year later.
Think about it, For more than a year, the IRS knew that it had inappropriately targeted groups of Americans based on their political beliefs, and without mentioning it, and in fact without honestly answering questions that were the result of this internal investigation."
So who is Holly Paz? Friend or foe? I guess that's why we have hearings. We do know Holly Paz was the director of rulings and agreements in Washington, who made $155,500 in 2011. She contributed $2,000 to President Barack Obama’s campaign committee in 2008. What we don't know is what happened to her report which was completed on May 3 2012. It shouldn't have been difficult for the IRS to track down the source of what we must infer from Ms. Lerner's assertion of 5th amendment protection, criminal behavior. For an agency that prides itself on its data mining capabilities unraveling the weave of malfeasance on its own computers should be child's play. Will Ms. Paz tell the committee that she referred her report to Shulman, Holder, or Geithner? Or just hid in her file cabinet until after the election? This could be dynamite!

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