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Question that revealed IRS scandal was planted, chief admits
The Hill ^ | May 17, 2013 | Bernie Becker

Posted on 05/18/2013 1:07:00 PM PDT by walford

...The Internal Revenue Service, apparently determined to get out ahead of an inspector general report critical of its handling of tax exemptions for Tea Party groups, came up with a plan: Lois Lerner, the official responsible for the tax-exempt division, would publicly apologize in response to a question at the American Bar Association conference in Washington...

...It was the day after Lerner had testified to Congress last week, failing once again to disclose the extent of the Tea Party targeting even under direct questioning. The damning inspector general report would come out any day, and Lerner and Miller wanted to figure out a way to disclose the news publicly...

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; distractions; dogandponyshow; enemedia; impeachnow; irs; irsscandal; leaks; loislerner; obamascandals; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; teaparty
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41 posted on 05/19/2013 12:57:15 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: TEXOKIE

Trust me...all this is so out in left field, I need to read it twice. lol


42 posted on 05/19/2013 3:32:33 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

yep that’s exactly right


43 posted on 05/20/2013 1:17:36 PM PDT by conservativebabe
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