Posted on 09/12/2013 11:18:58 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
Newly released emails show that Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups’ applications for tax-exempt status, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy.
The email, released by a House committee investigating the IRS, seems to counter Democrats’ arguments that tea party groups weren’t specifically targeted.
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SPECIAL COVERAGE: Tea Party Voices
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“Tea Party Matter very dangerous,” Ms. Lerner said in the 2011 email, saying that those applications could end up being the “vehicle to go to court” to get more clarity on a 2010 Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance rules.
In another email, from 2012, Ms. Lerner acknowledges that the agency’s handling of the tax-exempt applications had been bungled at the beginning, though she said they had taken steps to correct it.
“It is what it is,” she said in the email, released Thursday by the Ways and Means Committee. “Although the original story isn’t as pretty as we’d like, once we learned this [sic.] were off track, we have done what we can to change the process, better educate our staff and move the cases. So, we will get dinged, but we took steps before the ‘dinging’ to make things better and we have written procedures.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Well, tarring and feathering would be a nice start.
The Rhinos view the tea party as a threat to them so even though they were hearing some complaints about this they never took any action. Mark Levin got the IG to look into it.
;-))
There will be no real investigation and this is still happening and it won’t stop.
I'll bring the rope. Right after we get to audit their friggin sorry asses!
This isn’t Issa’s committee. Super Dave Camp is the man doing the “investigating” here.
Here's another approach...
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".
Lt. Gov Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
As long as NO ONE is INDICTED on charges it’s all just Kabuki theater at the public’s expense.
I don’t understand why she isn’t wearing orange RIGHT NOW.
They prefer simply discarding the entire IRS...?
Why do we have a Congress and Judicial system, if —as we see so far— it plays NO ACTUAL ROLE...?
The law is only for the Little People?
Hope & Change = DISCARD MAGNA CARTA, PERHAPS?
Greta VanSusteren said the IRS is purposely not denying status to the tea party people to keep them in limbo so they cannot take legal action. She said it is a dirty sleazy trick they are pulling.
There will be no real investigation and this is still happening and it won’t stop.
All going according to plan. That’s the Boehner/McConnell tip toe loser plan, unfortunately. The GOP want to drag this IRS “investigation” out until the election and hope the voters will do the heavy lifting.
Impeachments. Fair trials. THEN, first-class hangings.
And nothing will be done, no accountability, no charges filed... next.
These evil SOB’s will be in charge of our healthcare now. Can you imagine what they will do with your personal health records or what they will deny because of your post last week on a website they didn’t like?
Why is that evil BI%CH still on paid leave? She needs to be “un-employed” and in jail.
When is that bitch going back up on the witness stand?
Is it me, or has all the energy gone out of the investigations on the Benghazi, FSA, IRS, F&F issues?
With gold-trimmed scaffolds? ;-)
And nothing will be done, no accountability, no charges filed... next.
And no attempt at all to stick this IRS stuff to the Bystander In Chief.
The beltway GOP just don’t give a damn that us folks on Main Street had our constitutional rights violated by the IRS. Their tepid response to these outrages proves it.
6610 Fernwood Court
Bethesda, MD 20817
That’s where she lives. How come they don’t get their homes picketed the way the freaks on the left do to conservatives?
Just end it there because nothing is going to happen to anyone. We are witnessing the end of a free nation.
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