Posted on 05/24/2013 1:52:58 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
Not to fear, America -- she's been placed on "administrative leave," a terribly severe form of discipline that's effectively tantamount to paid vacation. At this week's House Oversight Committee hearing, Lerner (sort of) invoked her fifth amendment rights and refused to answer any questions. She claimed she's done "nothing wrong," which explains why she's reportedly refusing to resign. Question, though: Might Lerner be a relatively innocent patsy in all of this (a la the Benghazi scapegoat)? Er, probably not, via National Review:
A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity. Lerner, the director of the IRS exempt organizations office in Washington, D.C., signed cover letters to 15 conservative organizations currently represented by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) between in March and April of 2012. The letters, such as this one sent to the Ohio Liberty Council on March 16, 2012, informed the groups applying for tax-exempt status that the IRS was “unable to make a final determination on your exempt status without additional information,” and included a list of detailed questions of the kind that a Treasury inspector general’s audit found to be inappropriate. Some of the groups to which Lerner sent letters are still awaiting approval. Lerner has denied involvement in the targeting, which she has blamed on a few “front-line people” in the agency’s Cincinnati field office.
The timing of her letters coincide with the appearance of former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman before Congress in March 2012 who testified that no such targeting scheme existed. It appears Lerner did nothing to stop the abusive conduct.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The has been rewarded and MOVED UP (pay w/o work)
for throwing the last election and destroying
the US Constitution using her Agency.
The she belongs in jail!
/s
When they are acting like they are guilty, they are guilty.
She can run but she can’t hide.
Yes, yes, and yes!
God bless Free Republic!
Her fear of it makes her in bondage already. Sleepless days and sleepless nights is not just a song but a Lois reality. now, IMO.
185,000/yr to sit home, and watch TV.
TREASON - “acting”/appointed/entrenched unaccountable bureaucrats (socialists) elevating to TOTALITARIAN tactics for the powers that be when the time is right.
DISMANTLE the IRS.
TREASON - continuous, PRE-MEDITATED, agenda-driven, in-your-face, media-complicit, AGENCY-ABETTED, REPRESENTATIVE-DIRECTED, ongoing...
The Inspector General’s report was delayed on purpose, so it could be concealed until after the election, and released well before the 2014 elections. The IRS came before Congress before the 2012 elections and concealed (lied about) information of its alleged wrongdoings that were indeed going on, again for the obvious reason to cover up until well after the election.
ABSOLUTELY!
BUMP
Thank you so much!
Issa treated this lying, arrogant hack with kid gloves knowing full well
what she did to Tea Party Conservative groups. It was disgusting to
watch. So what is Issa going to do in the re-match he could not have
done the first time? Tell me, I’m dying to know.
BTW, what prevented Issa from bringing her in front of the committee
6 months from the elections when it was already known the IRS was targeting
Conservative Groups. Mark Levin will tell you why.
BUMP.
Thank you so much.
We are furious!
As they have proven it’s too big to handle - as each one claims not to know what the other is doing.
‘I take responsibility that it happened on my watch but I’m the last one to know what ‘it’ is and I’m saddened by it.’
While waiting for the 501 from the IRS - we had all this time to make up scandals! So it’s their fault!
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