Posted on 05/30/2013 7:33:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A lot of stupid people think like that.
Indeed, my thoughts as well. I was talking about the eventual strategy used to avoid the tragedy of closing this whole sordid crime with it only being about HER.
If SHE turns out to be the only one convicted in this whole debacle, that will be the ultimate crime.
Congress has their own Jail, it is in the Capitol, it has been used many times to imprison people just like this for refusing to Testify. They should immediately Arrest and Jail every last person that refuses to Testify before Congress. They have this absolute Power that cannot be Questioned by ANYONE.
If you go read some articles when Bush Jr was president, the Leftist Democrats as well as some Rino’s were calling for just that to happen to Bush Aides that refused to testify. see Karl Rove
EXCLUSIVE: Lerner intrigue goes back to ‘96 Durbin/Salvi U.S. Senate race
CHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi.
More than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS officials urging the agency to target conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s political career crossed paths with Ms. Lerner when she was head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and directly involved in the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate race.
“She said, ‘If you promise to never run for office again, we’ll drop this case,’” Salvi recalled.
At the time, Salvi said, he figured it was probably just Dick Durbin’s way of getting him out of politics.
Salvi said he refused Lerner’s offer because he knew he had done nothing wrong and wanted to leave the door open for future campaigns. In 1998, Salvi ran for Illinois Secretary of State while the 1996 FEC case against him continued.
Nearly four years and a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees later, federal judge George Lindbergh dismissed the FEC case against him, leaving the FEC attorney Lois Lerner — who was present and actively arguing before the judge — shocked.
“The judge said to Lerner, ‘Let me get this straight - Mr. Salvi loaning himself money is legal, and you have no complaint against that, is that right?’” Salvi said. “Ms. Lerner agreed. Then the judge said, ‘You just don’t like the way his attorneys filled out the report?’ Lerner agreed.”
Case dismissed, the judge said shaking his head and pounding his gavel, as Lerner objected.
“We never lose!” Lerner said to Salvi afterwards.
Durbin Asks IRS For Help in 2010
After the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, many incumbent politicians became concerned about the activities of organizations like Crossroads GPS, which had announced it would be running issue ads against Illinois’ Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate Alexi Giannoulias, who was campaigning to succeed Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
In October 2010, Durbin wrote IRS Commissioner Shulman about the tax exemption status of Crossroads - a job that would find its way to IRS official Lois Lerner.
I write to urge the Internal Revenue Service to examine the purpose and primary activities of several 501(c)(4) organizations that appear to be in violation of the law.
One organization whose activities appear to be inconsistent with its tax status is Crossroads GPS, organized as a (c)(4) entity in June. The group has spent nearly $20 million on television advertising specific to Senate campaigns this year. If this political activity is indeed the primary activity of the organization, it raises serious questions about the organization’s compliance with the Internal Revenue Code.
Other 2010 letters to the IRS with similar requests from elected officials may be included in four Congressional investigations now scheduled to take place in the next few weeks.
Salvi says it will be interesting to see how Lois Lerner, Dick Durbin, the FEC, IRS, and Illinois politics intersect as these investigations continue.
Speaking of lengthy, onerous, and intrusive lists of questions, the American Community Survey just turned up in my mailbox.
Your amendment to the Constitution sounds great. But what happens when they go on a witch hunt?
I know I don’t have that answer.
They can drag it out so that she can be pardoned by 0bama if he ever leaves office, before she actually spends a night in the slammer.
No one, I said it out of pure freakin' frustration! I can't believe the things this admin gets away with, makes my stomach turn and my blood pressure rise!
She spearheaded a coup against the American electorate. The death penalty would be applicable.
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