House Report on IRS Targeting Finds No White House Connection

There are two reasons why a Congressional committee would release a major report two days before Christmas when Washington is a virtual ghost town. The decision by the House Oversight and Government Reform to release its report on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups seems pretty clearly to have been driven by the latter. The 226-page report issued by Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the culmination of more than a year of hearings and document dumps aimed at