The Holder Department of Justice (DOJ) rejected a request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to appoint a special prosecutor for the investigation into the IRS scandal in a letter released this week. The DOJ argued that it saw no apparent conflict of interest with its current investigator Barbara Bosserman—who has contributed thousands of dollars to Obama and other Democrats according to recent Breitbart News reports.
Despite the DOJ’s denial of his request, the junior Texas Senator’s office said it will not give up the fight to hold the Obama Administration accountable. A Cruz spokesperson told Breitbart Texas, “We will certainly push back…This is an issue that Cruz remains committed to.”
In response to the DOJ’s denial of his request, Cruz said in a 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… Nobody should trust a partisan Obama donor to investigate the IRS’s political targeting of President Obama’s enemies.”
Cruz sent his initial request to Attorney General Eric Holder on January 22. He wrote in a letter, “It strains credulity to say that, out of the over 114,000 employees of the Department of Justice, the only possible choice to lead the investigation was a major political donor to President Obama. This, on its face, is a significant conflict of interest… General Holder… I would ask you to immediately appoint a special prosecutor, with meaningful independence, to investigate the IRS’ illegal targeting of conservative groups.”
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