Press Releases

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) released the following statement regarding the developing scandals in Washington, D.C.:

“The abuse-of-power scandals recently engulfing the White House have been developing so quickly that my statements of yesterday are already out of date.  Not only has the Internal Revenue Service admitted to deliberately targeting nonprofit conservative groups such as ‘Tea Party’ and ‘Patriot’ groups, but we now have an allegation from Franklin Graham that that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family’s humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse were also targeted.  Further, we also now have an organization generally thought of as liberal, ProPublica, which has reported that it was sent confidential information belonging to conservative groups by the IRS. 

“And what does the White House know?

“We once had a political party known as the Know-Nothings.  We now have a President who wants us to believe that he knows nothing.  He wants us to believe that he knows nothing about who decided to blame the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on a video.  He wants us to believe that he knew nothing about the IRS scandal until he had read the same press reports that you and I have read.  He wants us to believe that he knows nothing about the Department of Justice subpoenaing two months of the Associated Press’ phone records.

“What has happened to the days in America when Democratic President Harry Truman proudly placed a placard on his desk that says ‘the buck stops here?’

“Perhaps we have returned to the days where the question to the President of the United States ought to be:

“‘What did you know and when did you know it?’”

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