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Gibbs: Issa charges against IRS ‘shameful,’ owes agency apology
The Hill ^ | 6/3/13 | Jonathan Easley

Posted on 06/03/2013 8:12:15 AM PDT by Nachum

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday pushed back at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) claims that top officials from the IRS’s Washington, D.C. office directed the targeting of conservative groups, calling the allegations unsubstantiated and “shameful.”

“Republicans are on the verge of overplaying their hand publicly and the American people will quickly lose interest on their side in this,” Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They want to see the IRS cleaned up, but they understand that Darrell Issa is doing nothing more than politicizing this event. To throw around the words ‘liar’ and ‘perjury’ as easily as he did is shameful.”

Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Issa said his panel had conducted interview with IRS workers in the Cincinnati office that revealed “they were being directly ordered from Washington.”

“This is a problem that was coordinated, in all likelihood, right out of Washington headquarters. We have subpoenaed documents that would support that,” Issa said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; darrellissa; delusional; gibbs; gibbstalkingpoint; irs; irsscandal; irstalkingpoint; issa; robertgibbs; shameful; whistlepastgraveyard; whtalkingpoint
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To: Nachum
Gibbs would say anything but his prayers.
21 posted on 06/03/2013 8:29:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: Nachum

The only thing shameful about Issa’s charges are that not one single soul has yet been arrested. This will not end unless there are consequences to their actions.


22 posted on 06/03/2013 8:30:06 AM PDT by formosa
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To: Nachum

Obama should hire Baghdad Bob.

He would be an improvement.

And more convincing.


23 posted on 06/03/2013 8:31:53 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that they cannot carry out their plans.' -- Job 5:12)
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To: Nachum

Gibbs - does he realize how this scandal could push the nation over the edge to a civil war?

THE IRS STOLE THE 2012 ELECTION. THE GOVERNMENT IN POWER NOW IS ILLEGITIMATE BECAUSE OF THIS FACT.


24 posted on 06/03/2013 8:32:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Nachum

25 posted on 06/03/2013 8:32:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Nachum

Gibbs makes my skin crawl. I’d like to meet up with that worthless bum in a back alley. He is a poster child for what is wrong in DC. I can’t believe that creep went to Auburn.


26 posted on 06/03/2013 8:33:05 AM PDT by RatRipper (Self-centeredness, greed, envy, deceit and lawless corruption has killed this once great nation.)
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To: Nachum

Gibbs was probably in on this crime.


27 posted on 06/03/2013 8:33:08 AM PDT by McGruff (I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant,)
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To: Nachum

how does the word “treason” sound, then?


28 posted on 06/03/2013 8:34:08 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: Lazamataz
Child: Gee mom, I found these cookies on the kitchen table and decided to put them back into the cookie jar. You just came in at the wrong time.
29 posted on 06/03/2013 8:34:37 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Nachum

Gibbs, and Team O in general, are terrified about what is in those depositions.

They want to see everything, because otherwise they can’t coordinate their lies.

THAT is what this is all about, I think. I’m no lawyer, but I did used to watch Night Court.


30 posted on 06/03/2013 8:38:42 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (The Buck Stops Over There.)
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To: Nachum

with this administration this is a no brainer; same old ploy with these criminals in the WH, double down on their lies to get the press to carry the message and then hope their liberal supporters buy it thus divert attention and turn the table. What was that Sarah Palin said about lipstick on a pig?


31 posted on 06/03/2013 8:43:26 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Nachum
"Politicizing the event"? EVERYTHING 0bama does is 'political'!!!!

1) 0bama LIED about what happened in Benghazi to lessen it's impact on HIS RE-ELECTION

2) 0bama used the IRS and other agencies to oppress his political opponents to aid in HIS RE-ELECTION

3) 0bama spied on the media to get intelligence for preempting bad press to assist in HIS RE-ELECTION.

32 posted on 06/03/2013 8:47:07 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Nachum

This appears to be the latest talking point. I saw some dweeb on Judge Jeneane that was saying the same thing. “If they don’t watch it, they will lose more seats in the House and Senate, with all of these so-called scandals they’ve dreamed up.” And blah de blah. These people make me sick. They don’t even pretend they are not lying. they just keep going, full steam ahead. It is quite literally unreal.


33 posted on 06/03/2013 8:54:30 AM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Nachum

So if this were an actual journalism publication why would the headline be the obfuscation from a former paid political firefighter? The real news is several paragraphs down where it is revealed that Issa has testimony from IRS agents that they were directed from Washington. Why isn’t this the headline?


34 posted on 06/03/2013 8:55:57 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Nachum

Just getting warmed up there, Bobby!


35 posted on 06/03/2013 8:57:20 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Nachum
Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

How many viewer do they have? Maybe I could make up a baseball team?

5.56mm

36 posted on 06/03/2013 9:00:26 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Well-stated, and quite correct, my FRiend.

Many, many questions come to mind, and I would wager that Mister Issa has some very nice surprises for the Obama WH as well as the IRS.

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37 posted on 06/03/2013 9:02:02 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Nachum

Memo to Gibbs: There is no way to overplay a Royal Flush.


38 posted on 06/03/2013 9:06:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: formosa
The only thing shameful about Issa’s charges are that not one single soul has yet been arrested. This will not end unless there are consequences to their actions.

Not true! They frog marched a low level employee in Cincinnati whose name was Mitzie. (Google: 'Mitzie Gate') It gave them cover while columnist Richard Cohen complained that poor, poor Mitzie was being used as a scapegoat by the likes of the evil Republicans like Issa who "demanded" that somebody had to be arrested.

Of course Cohen ignored the fact that DOJ, not Issa, chose who was to be arrested. And clearly Mitzie WAS scapegoated, but by the administration in a lame attempt to deflect attention from Washington. Cohen's column came out a couple of days prior to Lerner pleading the 5th, but that didn't keep some papers from running fresh copies of the column still hoping to hide the complicity of Washington and trying to keep it a "couple of rogue employees" affair.

39 posted on 06/03/2013 9:07:57 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman
Mr. Gibbs, you and the entire IRS and Odumbo administration owe the AMERICAN PEOPLE an apology.
40 posted on 06/03/2013 9:10:06 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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