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CNN Exclusive: Two ‘Rogue’ IRS Employees Blamed For Tea Party Targeting Scandal
MediaIte ^ | 05/15/2013 | by Matt Wilstein

Posted on 05/15/2013 3:20:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

CNN’s Drew Griffin broke into Wolf Blitzer‘s Newsroom report Wednesday afternoon to reveal new information about the investigation into the IRS’ admission that they targeted conservatives during the 2012 election year.

Griffin said a Congressional source told him that the acting commissioner of the IRS, Steven Miller, has identified two “rogue” employees in the agency’s Cincinnati office, who he characterized as “off the reservation.” The commissioner reportedly said the two, as yet unnamed, employees were “principally responsible for overly aggressive handling of Tea Party requests for tax exempt status over the past two years.” Another source, according to Griffin, said that Miller confirmed that two employees have “already been disciplined.”

“I suspect a lot of Republicans, especially, but there are a bunch of Democrats outraged by this as well,” Blitzer said, “are going to suggest this may just be the tip of the iceberg, if you will. They’re going to want to see who else could be implicated in this.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; cincinnati; cnn; gettherope; impeachnow; implausibledenial; irs; irsscandal; loislerner; ohio; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; politicalpersecution; religiouspersecution; rogue; teaparty
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama is not responsible for any of the current scandals. He inherited the culture of corruption from the previous administration.


41 posted on 05/15/2013 3:50:25 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: Theodore R.

You’re right. The American people don’t want to stop the gravy train. America — Land of the Free — now has a whole new meaning.


42 posted on 05/15/2013 3:51:41 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: trubolotta

I think Obama should re-deliver his Ohio commencement speech telling young people not to listen to anyone who says government might do bad things.

He shouldn’t be let anywhere near young people.


43 posted on 05/15/2013 3:51:52 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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The Chi/mob---Obomba/Jarrett/Holder/Axelrod/Emanuel--- are trying to contain the damage---claiming the IRS action was confined to the Cincinnati office.

BUT the Cincinatti IRS office (which seems to have done most of the hands-on dirty work) is the one that controls all the “battleground states” that Obama needed to win in the last election.

Obama's own political support organizations (even outside of the country!) got fast-tracked........BUT any organization he thought might oppose him in those crucial states got silenced or prevented from collecting funds during the time leading up to the elections.

Hatch Act rules.

44 posted on 05/15/2013 3:53:40 PM PDT by Liz (To learn who rules over you, determine who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire)
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To: SeekAndFind
I call bs. I know several government workers, and I tell ya, none would risk their pension and benefits for a political posturing of this type.

99.999% chance that someone in the Obama administration gave the order, or there was some kind of sweet deal or incentive for these so called rogue employees (from the Obama administration).

45 posted on 05/15/2013 3:57:49 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: SeekAndFind
"The buck stops here." - Harry S Truman

"What buck? I never saw a buck. The buck never got here. Bush must have taken the buck." - Barry H. Obama

46 posted on 05/15/2013 3:57:49 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: SeekAndFind
These two "rogue" IRS goons will take the fall for this, and as long as they are standup, and keep their mouths shut, they will be taken care of.

This is the way the Mob works. It's SOP for our Mobbed up Prez. No one rats out the Don.

47 posted on 05/15/2013 3:57:52 PM PDT by jonascord (Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star!)
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To: Williams

Obama’s speech was loaded with bull squat anyway. I don’t know any conservatives who believe that the government is the root of all problems. That would make us anarchists, no? We do, however, believe that liberals are the root of most problems with government.


48 posted on 05/15/2013 3:58:05 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: SeekAndFind

and have already been disciplined.

What does that mean? Fired? Wrote up? What?

I hope criminal charges are coming.


49 posted on 05/15/2013 4:00:11 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: SeekAndFind

50 posted on 05/15/2013 4:00:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet)
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To: SeekAndFind

yAy¡ The media is back in lockstep!


51 posted on 05/15/2013 4:00:57 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind
In order to believe this, one out of two other things must be true. Either these two are the only people who handle these organizations in the whole IRS, or these two are allowed to pick the cases they work on with no oversight from superiors.

One more thing, how were these two supervised? It would seem that if there are any productivity metrics recorded and analyzed by management they would have stuck out and been flagged when it suddenly took so long to get anything done. Those records, and office procedures need to be subpoena.

52 posted on 05/15/2013 4:02:52 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SeekAndFind

If by “disciplined” he means drawn and quartered I want to see corpses.


53 posted on 05/15/2013 4:02:57 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Old Yeller

LOL...yep, you said it best.


54 posted on 05/15/2013 4:03:58 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: Orange1998

“What did the President know and when did he know it?”


55 posted on 05/15/2013 4:04:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Interesting comment. Only one politician BRAVE enough to press the question would be CRUZ.


56 posted on 05/15/2013 4:07:35 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: SeekAndFind

Then why did the director resign? “Off the reservation” and “rogue” imply he knew nothing about it..


57 posted on 05/15/2013 4:10:03 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is IMPOSSIBLE for 2 rogue employees to do what was done. Congress better put on their big boy britches and slap this down right now.


58 posted on 05/15/2013 4:11:06 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: SeekAndFind

We already know three separate offices were involved, so who coordinated the assault by the whole IRS on 0bama’s opponents?


59 posted on 05/15/2013 4:12:07 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WHO IS ON THE ENEMIES LIST?)
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To: SeekAndFind

These foot soldiers better start blowing their whistles before they become another victim of Obamacide...


60 posted on 05/15/2013 4:12:32 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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