In a letter signed by his five subcommittee chairmen, Issa raises the possibility that Cummings coordinated with the IRS by “surreptitiously” contacting the agency to request information about True the Vote.
E-mails unearthed in the course of IssaÂ’s investigation into the IRSÂ’s inappropriate targeting of right-leaning groups show that in August 2012, a member of CummingsÂ’s staff contacted the IRS asking for any publicly available information on True the Vote. The matter was discussed by IRS officials that included Lois Lerner, the former exempt-organizations chief who retired in the wake of the targeting scandal. One of LernerÂ’s deputies, Holly Paz, subsequently sent the organizationÂ’s 990 forms to Cummings and his staff. The correspondence does not indicate, however, whether the action the IRS took with relation to True the Vote was prompted by the request from CummingsÂ’s office.
Nonetheless, EngelbrechtÂ’s True the Vote received a letter from the IRS with inquiries that agency officials have testified were unprecedented in scope. CummingsÂ’s letter contained questions that closely mirrored those posed by the IRS, and Issa details them in his letter, strongly implying that one was modeled on the other.
4 vs 4,000. Spare me your fauxrage son 
