Posted on 05/20/2013 7:42:31 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
...new information has emerged from both the Treasury Inspector General’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner...
The clumsy way the IRS disclosed the issue as well as Lerner’s press briefing by phone were seen at the time as a public relations disaster. But even so, it is worth reviewing three key statements made by Lerner and comparing them to the facts that have since emerged.
“But between 2010 and 2012 we started seeing a very big uptick in the number of 501(c)(4) applications we were receiving and many of these organizations applying more than doubled, about 1500 in 2010 and over 3400 in 2012.”
Lerner made this comment while issuing a seemingly impromptu apology at an American Bar Association panel (it was later learned that this was a planted question—more on that below.)
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“I think you guys were reading the paper as much as I was. So it was pretty much we started seeing information in the press that raised questions for us and we went back and took a look.”
Here, Lerner suggests that she only found out about this issue when news reports appeared in February and March 2012 about tea party groups complaining that they were being targeted. But the IG timeline shows this claim to be false.
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“I don’t believe anyone ever asked me that question before.”
This was Lerner’s excuse during the media call for why she had not publicly addressed the issue before.
But in congressional testimony Friday, former acting director Steven T. Miller said he had discussed with Lerner about arranging to make a statement at a May 10 conference sponsored by the American Bar Association, knowing that the IG report would soon be released.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
In some ways, this is just scratching the surface of Lerner’s misstatements and weasely wording when the revelations about the IRS’s activities first came to light on May 10. But, taken together, it’s certainly enough to earn her four Pinocchios.
The media today is already forming a new template.
They are advising Obama whom he should throw under the bus in order to “save” his Presidency.
Lerner, Holder, Susan Rice appear to be the Top 3.
The Austin (Un) American Statesman’s fact checker would give this obvious pile of smoking lies its customary “Half True” rating, reserved for Democrats bald-faced whoppers. Its ratings provide the Joke of the Day for intelligent readers.
More info on Celia Roady here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021624/posts
Obamaphone voters wanna know: What does Superman’s girlfriend have to do with any of this?
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