“Pssst, Lois. You don't haf to tell zeez swine anything. Chust remember zot Herr Obama und I haf your beck.” But if you screw up, bitte remember zot ve know vere you lif!”
Posted on 08/14/2013 12:05:09 PM PDT by Nachum
Daming evidence against Lois Lerner and other top IRS officials continues to mount. We learned Tuesday that Lerner used a personal e-mail account to conduct official business, an act that has the potential to frustrate both Congress’s requests for documents and the public’s freedom of information requests. That disclosure came on the heels of revelations that Lerner shared the tax information of at least one conservative group with an FEC investigator, perhaps in violation of federal law.
Her misdeeds are likely more extensive. In June 2011, Lerner ordered a change in the “Be on the Lookout” listing for tea-party groups because she — rightfully — deemed the language inappropriate. According to the Treasury Department inspector general’s report, the following month, in July 2011, “the criteria were changed to focus on the potential ‘political, lobbying, or [general] advocacy’ activities of the organization.” But several IRS officials have now told congressional investigators that this change was essentially a rebranding effort led by Lerner and her colleague, Holly Paz, the former director of the IRS’s Rulings and Agreements office, to allow the targeting to continue without a paper trail. ”Many screeners have said they understood that to be just a change in name,” says a source close to the investigation. In January 2012, the sanitized listing was changed back to include the terms Lerner found objectionable, which “supports the fact that it was a change in name, not substance,” the source adds.
That raises questions about the veracity of Paz’s sworn testimony. The senior IRS official, who was placed on administrative leave in June, told investigators that the term “tea party” was “just sort of a shorthand reference” for all political activity, akin to ”calling soda ‘Coke.’” But according to the source, her subordinates have said just the opposite: that “political activity”
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Congress has ignored corruption again.
and again. and again. and again.
Liars and Tigers and Bears, oh my! Someone should wrie a fairy tale about this administration ‘cause nobody would believe it’s a true story.
” Congress has ignored corruption again.”
Especially their own.
Can’t congress compel the NSA to turn over her private emails?
Time for Eric Holder to subpoena her personal Email provider for her Emails. Yeah, like THAT would ever happen. How about ‘Anonymous’ hackers? Oh wait, they’re probably NSA too.
I was reminded that Watergate took two years to investigate.
Lerner and Paz. Two more Pardons for Obama. Jan 2016 will be the final straw as all the people who helped him win again illegally will be pardoned before being offered cushy private sector jobs.
Who's going to take the fall for allowing her unfettered access to IRS computer networks AFTER her leave? No one.
She may try to cover her tracks but every day another underling is being interviewed, and not all of them are going to be willing to throw their careers and their freedom away for her.
Watergate didn’t impact the lives of those awaiting approval of their tax-exempt status applications.. Conservative groups are STILL awaiting approval they are.
A Colorado conservative group is fighting back against the IRS for disclosing its confidential financial information to a liberal news organization by suing the government agency as well as Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Daily Caller reports that the Citizens Awareness Project filed the suit in federal court Thursday demanding that it be awarded $1,000 for every instance in which an unauthorized person viewed the information disclosed on the Internet by ProPublica earlier this year. The conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit group was one of several whose applications for tax-exempt status from the IRS was mishandled.
"Defendants" conduct has caused plaintiff to incur actual damages in the form of harm to its reputation, harm to its fundraising ability, and direct costs for legal and public relations responses related to the release of this tax return information," the lawsuit said. (Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
How long has that been and not one SOB went to jail.
They even caught Holder out and out lying...........Nothing done.
Dames! LOL!
They permitted Holder to say he misspoke when he came back. You and i would not be afforded such an opportunity.
Nothing will be done either...except to blame BUSH !!
And at least 50% of the sheeple will buy it....
“Pssst, Lois. You don't haf to tell zeez swine anything. Chust remember zot Herr Obama und I haf your beck.” But if you screw up, bitte remember zot ve know vere you lif!”
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