Obviously such an intensive investigation, everyone is super-secret undercover…
Via Daily Mail:
The acting deputy U.S. attorney general in charge of overseeing ‘public integrity’ prosecutions testified Friday that he doesn’t know who’s in charge of the criminal investigation of Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the tea-party targeting scandal.
David O’Neil, whose job atop the DOJ’s criminal division puts him in charge of public corruption prosecutions, told Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan that he also doesn’t know how many prosecutors are assigned to the case, or how many attorneys from his division are working on it.
Asked to identify the lead agent in the Lerner investigation, O’Neil would only answer, ‘I’m sure that we can provide that information to you.’
Republicans are incensed that DOJ trial attorney Barbara Bosserman – a partisan who has contributed nearly $7,000 to President Barack Obama’s campaigns and other Democratic party coffers, has reportedly been appointed as the probe’s point person.
They have demanded the appointment of a special counsel to take over, passing a House resolution on May 2 that claimed the Obama administration has a ‘conflict of interest’ and that ‘statements and actions of … the Obama Administration in connection with this matter have served to undermine the Department of Justice’s investigation.’
Twenty-six House Democrats joined every Republican in voting yes.