Republicans Refuse to Investigate the Illegal Activities of the Kochs and John Boehner

Republicans have been on a tear to portray the Obama Administration as doing something regarded as morally or legally wrong to engender public outrage against the President as well as cover their obstruction and incompetence in doing the work of the people. The Republican leading the investigations into the Benghazi incident and Internal Revenue Service for doing its due diligence, Darrell Issa, has been working overtime attempting to find some illegal action on the part of the White House, and it began the day after Republicans took control of the House in 2010 when he said “I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks.” There is little question Republicans are on a witch hunt against the President, but what boggles the mind is why Republicans or their surrogates never face investigations and charges when there is proof they have done what any reasonable American would regard as morally and legally wrong openly and with impunity.

Over the past two years, there have been four instances of malfeasance that have been “overlooked” by the federal government and at least one of them is finally getting the attention it deserves. Republicans and the oil industry cheered after the State Department released a report on the environmental impact of the Keystone XL pipeline because it gave the environmentally damaging project a clean bill of health, and it should have because the report was conducted by an oil industry contractor, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), that has ties to the pipeline’s owner TransCanada, ExxonMobil, and Koch brothers who all have a stake in developing Canadian tar sand. According to the law, hiring an oil company contractor with a financial interest in the project is against federal conflict of interest laws, and as it turns out, “ERM misled the State Department at least twice in its proposal which most certainly lead the State Department to contract the Keystone XL review to an oil contractor with a vested interest in providing a favorable report.” Where is the Republican outrage at a real scandal with federal documents to back up the claim that ERM lied on its application and review report?

There is more to the Keystone scandal that Darrell Issa, and the SEC, should have investigated regarding Speaker of the House John Boehner’s lies about the hundreds-of-thousands of jobs the pipeline would generate barely a year after he invested in 7 Canadian tar sand companies in 2010. It is an ethics violation for elected officials to use their political office to perform official acts on behalf of special interests, and particularly when the elected official lies about a project to profit him and his campaign donors. A complaint was sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission that accused TransCanada of using “false or misleading statements about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline” and that Boehner, on behalf of TransCanada “consistently used public statements and information they knew were false in a concerted effort to secure permitting approval of Keystone XL from the U.S. government.” The SEC should have fully investigated Boehner and TransCanada for violating SEC Rule 10b(5) – Employment of Manipulative and Deceptive Practices to bolster stock prices, but because it was a Republican and the oil industry who broke the law, the investigation never materialized. Where was Republican and Darrell Issa’s outrage over the Speaker of the House lying to profit the oil industry and bolster his stock portfolio using the power of his political office?

http://www.politicususa.com/republicans-refuse-investigate-boehner-kochs-criminals-party.html

Rethugs would rather scapegoat Democrats for crimes they didn't commit than see one of their criminal paymasters being locked up for crimes they did commit