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The Executive Branch and Congress are co equal branches of government. Usually there are negotiations of terms in anticipation of acrimonious testimony. When there is no agreement reached on testifying, then the Judicial Branch, a court or courts, weigh in.Of course one might believe that there never was fighting subpoenas or refusing Congressional testimony in the Obama administration because as candidate, he promised to be the most transparent ever. Obama’s legacy will be one of secrecy and hostility toward the pressFor those with short memory Eric Holder, Obama’s first Attorney General, refused a subpoena to hand over documents in the botched Fast and Furious gun running scheme.https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/was-the-house-right-to-hold-eric-holder-in-contempt/eric-holder-is-defying-the-law-by-resisting-subpoenaHouse holds Holder in contemptAnd just in case there was any question regarding Holder’s non partisan objectivity, there’s that famous quote. Eric Holder: 'I'm still the president's wingman'And there are these Obama administrators who refused to testify before Congress. Obama Official Won’t Testify to Congress, White House Political Director David SimasLois Lerner Escapes Criminal Contempt Charges After DOJ Finds She Did Not Waive Rights. Lois Lerner of the IRS attacks against conservative organizations also defied a subpoena. Lois Lerner pleads the fifth again, doesn't testify on IRS targetingThere’s more:Nine Obama administration officials also invoked the Fifth Amendment. Here’s a list in case you forgot:Who can forget about IRS Director, Lois Lerner who pled the Fifth Amendment twice over allegations that the IRS had “targeted conservative nonprofit groups for additional scrutiny of their applications for tax-exempt status.”The first time Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment was in May 2013, while appearing before the Senate Finance Committee. The second time Lerner pled the Fifth Amendment was in March 2014 while appearing before the House Oversight Committee.In April 2012, General Services Administration (GSA)’s Jeffrey Neely invoked his Fifth Amendment right when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called Neely to testify about improper spending.Neely also invoked his Fifth Amendment right after photos emerged of Neely sitting in a bathtub with wine at GSA’s Western Regions Conference in 2010 in Las Vegas, which spent $822,000 in taxpayer money.Patrick Cunningham, chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona, invoked his Fifth Amendment in January 2012 in connection with the Fast and Furious scandal.Deputy Director of the IRS Greg Roseman pled the Fifth in January 2013, after Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) started asking Roseman about “panel findings that he helped a friend procure potentially $500 million worth of IRS contracts.”Then there is the former State Department Employee Bryan Pagliano, who famously invoked his Fifth Amendment right over his involvement in setting up Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server in September 2015.Former Department of Veterans Affairs officials John Sepulveda, Diana Rubens, and Kimberly Graves, as well as former Environmental Protection Agency official John Beale, all invoked their Fifth Amendment rights as well.FLASHBACK: Nine Obama Administration Officials Who Pled the Fifth to CongressHow would it be received if the White House via the DOJ subpoenaed 10 years of tax records from every Democratic member of the Senate and House leadership including Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings.Might as well put Mazie Hirono into the group for being so annoying. Any guess on any individual that would comply with that?

The delays and denials extended over 2 election cycles, 2010 and 2012. This delay resulted in reduced donations to conservative groups because the donations were not tax exempted. Additionally, the targeted conservative groups claim that the IRS demanded leaders and donors lists, communications between group members and those in Congressional office and meeting materials. Some individual leaders and donors were subsequently targeted with personal IRS audits."First, there’s billionaire businessman Frank VanderSloot. A major donor to a Mitt Romney super PAC and the co-chair of the Romney campaign’s national finance committee, VanderSloot was one of eight Romney supporters targeted in an April 2012 Obama campaign blog post as an unseemly businessman.""VanderSloot told The Daily Caller in a recent interview that though he was only audited once by the IRS some three decades ago before the Obama campaign attacked him. After the attack, he or his business interests were subjected to three audits in four months. The IRS was responsible for two of the audits. The Labor Department was responsible for the third.""What’s more, VanderSloot says he isn’t the only major Mitt Romney donor who was targeted. Speaking of his seven compatriots who were attacked in the same Obama campaign posting, he said, “I don’t know that everybody [that] was on it [was] audited. I don’t know how many were. I know that I’m not the only one. I do know that.”No matter if you are a liberal or conservative, this kind of activity by our federal government is chilling and scary.‘Very Frightening’: Prominent Catholic Prof. Claims IRS Audited Her After Speaking Out Against Obama and Demanded to Know Who Was Paying HerRead more: Page on DailycallerIRS audit found political bias against conservatives; groups gave up after application delay

Question: “Why is it so easy for people to ignore or dismiss the extreme corruption of the Obama administration?”There is no evidence of extreme corruption or even any corruption in the Obama administration. There were zero criminal indictments, zero convictions and zero prison sentences. A comparison to other recent administrations shows how unusual this is:Bush, George W. (R) – 8 yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences.Clinton (D) – 8 yrs in office. 2 criminal indictments. One conviction. One prison sentence.Bush, George H. W. (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. One conviction. One prison sentence.Reagan (R) – 8 yrs in office. 26 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 8 prison sentences.Carter (D) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. Zero convictions and zero prison sentences.Ford (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment and one conviction. One prison sentence.Nixon (R) – 6 yrs in office. 76 criminal indictments. 55 convictions. 15 prison sentences.Johnson (D) – 5 yrs in office. Zero indictments. Zero convictions. Zero prison sentences.The Obama administration is the only one since Watergate without a single indictment.A look at what one writer considers corruption reveals how flimsy these allegations are. The article Obama: The Most Corrupt President In American History? lists the New Black Panther Party, the IRS delay in granting of tax-exempt status to pro-life and Tea Party groups, phony prosecutions of big banks, the failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton for misuse of classified information, and the use of the Steele dossier to obtain a FISA warrant for Carter Page as corrupt.As reported by Newsweek, The New Black Panther Party “scandal” was:In 2008, a lone white voter reported he had encountered two black men dressed all in black, one carrying a nightstick, at his Philadelphia polling place in a predominantly black neighborhood. The armed man was escorted away by police, and no one reported the incident to the local district attorney. …Several months after the 2008 Election Day incident (and 13 days before President Obama was sworn in) the Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit against the NBPP under the Voting Rights Act, alleging voter intimidation. In May 2009, Justice—now led by Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama's appointee—successfully obtained an injunction against King Samir Shabazz, the man who carried the nightstick, then dropped the suit, Fox News reported. A spokeswoman at Justice says a career attorney made the call, which was then affirmed by an appointee, because "the facts and the law did not support pursuing claims against the other defendants in the case. A federal judge determined that the relief requested by the Department was appropriate." The New Black Panther Party Is the New ACORNThis is hardly the stuff of epic corruption.The IRS “scandal” was not an example of corruption. It was an example of some politically obtuse IRS employees in the Determinations Unit in the Cincinnati Office looking out for certain political terms in applications for tax exempt status.Between April 2010 and April 2012, the IRS placed on hold the processing of applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exemption status received from organizations with "Tea Party,” "patriots,” or "9/12" in their names. During this time, only 4 were approved. During the same general period, the agency approved applications from several dozen presumably liberal-leaning organizations whose names included terms such as "progressive,” "progress,” "liberal,” or "equality.”The Columbia Journalism Review explained it:Rather than the Nixonian conspiracy that George Will and The Wall Street Journal editorial page so darkly warned about—with zero evidence—you have a routine bureaucratic procedure meant to bundle potentially problematic applicants together for further review. The “abuses” the right has screamed about are the same ones that nonprofit journalism applicants like SF Public Press, The Lens, and many others faced, especially long delays and invasive questioning (and, ultimately, approval—no Tea Party group’s application ultimately was denied). Again, this was not some big secret. It was readily available information. The IRS scandal unwindsThis was bureaucratic bungling at a regional level. It was not some nefarious plot by the Obama administration.Allegations of phony prosecution of big banks is a canard. These banks nearly brought down the world economy through their fraudulent behavior. For instance, a Justice Department press release about a settlement with JPMorgan stated:The settlement includes a statement of facts, in which JPMorgan acknowledges that it regularly represented to RMBS investors that the mortgage loans in various securities complied with underwriting guidelines. Contrary to those representations, as the statement of facts explains, on a number of different occasions, JPMorgan employees knew that the loans in question did not comply with those guidelines and were not otherwise appropriate for securitization, but they allowed the loans to be securitized – and those securities to be sold – without disclosing this information to investors. This conduct, along with similar conduct by other banks that bundled toxic loans into securities and misled investors who purchased those securities, contributed to the financial crisis. Justice Department, Federal and State Partners Secure Record $13 Billion Global Settlement with JPMorgan for Misleading Investors About Securities Containing Toxic MortgagesThese banks admitted fraud. It’s disingenuous to call these settlements “shakedowns.”Obama kept far from the investigation into the Clinton email controversy. The decision not to prosecute her was Comey’s. He made that decision because he did not believe she would be successfully prosecuted. Ironically, Comey may have cost Clinton the election by announcing that the case was re-opened days before the election.The FISA warrant controversy has been well addressed by now. Carter Page was the subject of FBI interest well before he was associated with the Trump campaign. The FBI was looking into Page’s trip to Moscow in June 2016, before they knew about the dossier. In any event, the dossier has proven to be accurate in the areas that can be corroborated. The article makes numerous unproven conjectures about this, such aswas Obama personally involved in the use of the Trump/Russia Dossier to seek a FISA warrant to surveil the Trump campaign? We await the definitive proof.None of this is corruption. The IRS bungled its job. However, it wasn’t corrupt. The Obama administration was exemplary in its discipline and lack of corruption.