Posted on 07/30/2014 9:22:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
Former IRS official Lois Lerner cursed conservatives in emails released on Wednesday, leading House Republicans to intensify their push for criminal charges.
Lerner, in an email conversation with an undisclosed person, suggested that listeners to conservative talk radio were “ass----s.” She followed that up by saying: “So we don't need to worry about alien teRrorists [sic]. It's our own crazies that will take us down.”
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee said the emails showed – not for the first time – Lerner’s bias against conservatives. Other documents released Wednesday also suggest that Lerner used her home computer for work, which the GOP said raises questions about how well she was protecting confidential taxpayer information.
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said he hoped the new document would force Attorney General Eric Holder to take the criminal investigation into the IRS’s improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups more seriously.
GOP lawmakers say the new emails support the charges against Lerner, the central figure in the investigation, that they referred to the Justice Department this April. Those three charges carry a maximum of 11 years in jail.
Congressional investigations into the IRS have also gained new intensity in recent weeks, after the agency said that Lerner’s hard drive crashed in 2011 and that an untold number of her emails from the two years prior had gone missing.
In the emails released by Ways and Means on Wednesday, Lerner appears to be on vacation in England, and writes that she overheard local women deriding U.S. fiscal policy.
The undisclosed person on the email chain responds: “Well, you should hear the whacko wing of the GOP. The US is through; too many foreigners sucking the teat; time to hunker down, buy ammo and food, and prepare for the end. The right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.”
After that, Lerner responds: “Great. Maybe we are through if there are that many ass----s.”
Lerner had previously mentioned potentially getting a job with Organizing for Action, an offshoot of President Obama’s campaign, though it’s unclear whether she was joking. Previously released emails also show her celebrating the results of the 2012 election.
Republicans have increasingly called for a special prosecutor to look into the IRS, with a House panel holding a hearing on that issue today, and have voted to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress.
Camp and other Republicans had earlier referred Lerner to Justice for allegedly using her position to deny conservatives due process, impeding an official investigation by giving misleading statements and recklessly handling taxpayer information.
“Despite the serious investigation and evidence this Committee has undertaken into the IRS’s targeting of individuals for their beliefs, there is no indication that DOJ is taking this matter seriously,” Camp said Wednesday.
“In light of this new information, I hope DOJ will aggressively pursue this case and finally appoint a special counsel, so the full truth can be revealed and justice is served.”
Holder and other top Justice officials have said their criminal investigation is ongoing, and that they see no reason for a special prosecutor right now.
Democrats on Capitol Hill have said that close to 15 months worth of investigations have found no political motivation to the IRS scrutiny or White House involvement, even though the GOP has been desperate to link the controversy to President Obama.
She always seems like such a nice, dignified person. I’ll bet she’s real nice to her secretary, too.
“I hope DOJ will aggressively pursue this case...”
I can’t stop laughing!
Not a smidgen.....
Lowlife Lerner is an ignorant sl...you know.
As such, she perfectly fits the position which she is currently infecting.
[ Lerner, in an email conversation with an undisclosed person, suggested that listeners to conservative talk radio were “ass——s.” She followed that up by saying: “So we don’t need to worry about alien teRrorists [sic]. It’s our own crazies that will take us down.” ]
No Lois, it is our own Fifth Column that will take us down as a country ie. YOU!
Me too, Holder is laughing up his sleeve on these requests.
Not surprised.
We shoot off fireworks on July 4th WHY...?
IT’S A FACADE and in view if reality it would be far more respectful and realistic to DISSOLVE that holiday.
When people eggregiously break the law apparently it doesn’t matter.
Men died at Normandy FOR THIS?
It takes one to know one and Lerner is a perfect example.
Notice that she states that the greatest enemy, those that will “take us down”, are conservatives, not those who brought down the twin towers.
They so vehemently desire to use the power of the State to punish and kill those who resist them that they can taste it.
Cue the “FrogMarch Music”
The gift that keeps on giving
The nastiest, most violent people I have known so far have all been liberals.
Lerner is the product that comes out of a______s.
This woman is pathetic.
The thing that ticks me off most is not that there are federal employees who have these opinions (it’s a free country) but that some hold high positions in government and use their positions and government communications to further those anti-American beliefs.
Obama supporters are rock suckers.
There are two nations within our borders. There is The United States Of America and there is Democratland. The citizens of Democratland get their money by taking it from the citizens of The United States. The citizens of Democratland know that this is wrong, so they call the citizens of The United States awful names to make it easier to assuage their guilty consciences.
Lerner, the crazies that will take us down is NOT the tea party, but LIBERALS.
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