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Lois Lerner's big mouth
American Thinker ^ | 07/11/2013 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 07/11/2013 8:01:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Lois Lerner is a nasty piece of work, and one aspect of her arrogance could well be her undoing. She enjoyed wielding her power so much that she boasted about it, and in doing so in a 2011 interview with Business Week, she conceded a point that could be used to prove criminal culpability. Patrick Frey, who writes Patterico's Pontifications, uncovered the incriminating crowing:

A reader sends a very interesting tidbit buried in a November 17, 2011 Businessweek.com article about the IRS and not-for-profit universities. The article is about the IRS making inquiries into "whether schools improperly claimed tax-exempt status for taxable businesses." At the end of the article is this fascinating quote:

Lois Lerner, the IRS's director of tax-exempt organizations who is overseeing the investigation, says many schools are rethinking how and what they report to the government. Receiving a thick questionnaire from the IRS, she says, is a "behavior changer."

Frey provides a timeline, noting the bragging took place months after the initiation of the targeting of conservatives and tea parties. Ed Morrissey explains the implication in the Fiscal Times:

The targeting of conservative groups by the tax-exempt unit Lerner ran also used the "thick questionnaire" tactic, which Lerner brags is a form of intimidation.  An entertaining timeline of the IRS targeting scandal compiled by Freedom Works, which supports and trains Tea Party activists and groups, shows Lerner found out about the targeting by June 27, 2011 at the latest, and had initiated an audit of the office and its "be on the lookout" (BOLO) list used for the targeting. 

That resulted in a broader BOLO being put into use, and five months later, Lerner is bragging about the "behavior changer" effect of IRS demands for extensive information.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; irs; irsbrownshirts; irsscandal; irsscandals; liberalfascism; loislerner; obama; scandals; teaparty
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1 posted on 07/11/2013 8:01:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 07/11/2013 8:04:37 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracker)
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To: SeekAndFind

In other words, it was her idea.


3 posted on 07/11/2013 8:04:38 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Lois Lerner is a nasty piece of work”

Yeah, she’s a piece of something alright but if anybody thinks obama is going to let her take a fall they have another thing coming.


4 posted on 07/11/2013 8:04:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: SeekAndFind

She needs some serious jail time.


6 posted on 07/11/2013 8:06:51 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: V_TWIN

Just imagine some guy getting drunk one night, then waking up in the morning with Nancy Pelosi, and Lois Lerner next to him.


7 posted on 07/11/2013 8:09:47 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: SeekAndFind

Politicians love to brag. Their self esteem demands it. So they boast about all the things they are going to do. Believe them! They tell you out front how they are going to RULE over you. Why is it that we are too dumb to listen? Obama’s books, speeches etc. said right out front that he was a socialista and determined to transform America into a socialist workers hell hole. His appointees are doing the same.


8 posted on 07/11/2013 8:10:55 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Just another byproduct of the criminal permissiveness of a dysfunctional Congress. Bad people are not accountable.


9 posted on 07/11/2013 8:13:01 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: TexasCajun

She’s got that Barrack Mussolini pose down pat!


10 posted on 07/11/2013 8:14:24 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She will never receive any punishment whatsoever - at least not in this lifetime. When she stands before the Judge of All, only He can say what are her just desserts...


11 posted on 07/11/2013 8:18:53 AM PDT by karnage
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

not.
enough.
beer.
in.
the.
world.


12 posted on 07/11/2013 8:26:00 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

No one could possibly get that drunk!

If this could occur - it would surely bring the onset of a bad case of bi-lateral “coyote syndrome”, causing the victim to chew both his arms off, rather than taking a chance at waking either of the beasts...


13 posted on 07/11/2013 8:28:46 AM PDT by CTyank
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To: tumblindice
She’s got that Barrack Mussolini pose down pat!

14 posted on 07/11/2013 8:32:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is the FAULT of the US Congress
which, itself, is IMMUNE — as it is to ObamaCARE
and to the Law and SEC Rules, etc. etc.

THIS IS THE FAULT OF A PERMISSIVE,
always Whoring, always lying US Congress
which weaponized al Qaeda
EVEN after 911, and even after they
became crucifying cannibals.


15 posted on 07/11/2013 8:33:01 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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16 posted on 07/11/2013 8:38:06 AM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Very disturbing comments from the aging Miss Lerner.

remember what happened to William Wallace at the end of Braveheart - the same thing should happen to Miss Lerner and it should be carried live on ABC, CNN, FOX, CBS and NBC - primetime. That would certainly be a behavior changer.

17 posted on 07/11/2013 9:14:50 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If We The People, ever decide to exercise our supreme power over this unconstitutional government one of the first things which MUST be done is the complete elimination tax code being used for ANY “behavior changes” AKA social engineering.

Once we allowed government to go down the road of using the oppressive tool of taxation to be used for ANYTHING other than raising revenue for the Constitutional tasks required of the government.

No loop holes, no matter how much we like them is the only FAIR way to confiscate money from citizens.

It cannot be emphasized enough that can be no exceptions as once on that road we are right back to the code we have today which even democrat politicians seem to have great degree of difficulty following.


18 posted on 07/11/2013 9:40:55 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: Timber Rattler

She needs a short time on a long rope.


19 posted on 07/11/2013 9:44:59 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The HAUGHTY Lois Lerner.......soon to be Presidential material.....OR in an Orange Jump Suit. Which way will America fall???


20 posted on 07/11/2013 10:01:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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