Posted on 11/20/2013 12:02:53 PM PST by bestintxas
A top manager from the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office was “furious” last May over allegations from Lois Lerner that “front-line” employees were responsible for the agency’s inappropriate actions toward conservative groups, according to e-mails from a former top official with the division.
Lerner, who headed the exempt-organizations office in Washington, D.C., blamed rank-and-file workers for the agency’s behavior during a legal conference in which she apologized on behalf of the IRS. She said actions were misguided efforts by workers to deal with a flood of applications from tax-exemption applicants during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.
Cynthia Thomas, a former manager with the IRS’s exempt-organizations office in Cincinnati, fired off an e-mail to Lerner after the conference, complaining that the agency had blamed rank-and-file employees for its actions.
Thomas said Joseph Grant, who was Lerener’s boss, had visited the Cincinnati office a year earlier to assure employees that they would not be blamed for the agency’s mistakes. ”Based on the [news] articles, Cincinnati wasn’t publicly ‘thrown under the bus” instead was hit by a convoy of mack trucks,” she said.
Thomas’s e-mail suggests high-ranking officials knew about the problems long before Lerner apologized for the activities and well in advance of a May 2013 inspector general’s report that detailed them.
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Let one kill off the other, then we kill the winner.
In spite of the common belief, there really are loyal Americans working at some government agencies. Their problem is how to tell the truth without getting snuffed either professionally or actually. (Ref. Ft Marcy Park) As the stink increases the opportunities will present themselves. However, it is a risky business.
They have to come forward and spill the beans and make as much commotion as possible this way they will stay alive. They wouldn’t dare kill them cause that would definitely raise suspicion. Maybe not with this media.
If not they will be in fort marcy.
So the haggard turkeyneck is blaming underlings for her crimes?
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Those kittens don’t possess the stones to do anything about Lerner abusing them. It’s entertaining to hear of their distress, but c’mon, this won’t amount to two turds in a punch bowl.
What's the GOPe going to do about it?
Nothing can be trusted. They just admitted to lying about the uneployment numbers too. I bet we don’t even have proper representation in congress. Much less fair elections!
Yep.
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