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House Report: Lois Lerner's Involvement in the IRS Targeting of Tax-Exempt Organizations
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ^ | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 | Staff Report

Posted on 03/11/2014 7:49:34 AM PDT by kristinn

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1 posted on 03/11/2014 7:49:34 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Why isn’t this woman in a federal prison ?


2 posted on 03/11/2014 7:59:10 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: kristinn
So does it say "The lying bitch needs to be indicted"?

Or does it say "The ugly lying bitch needs to be indicted"?

3 posted on 03/11/2014 8:00:40 AM PDT by OKSooner ("As the riders went on by him, he heard one call his name...")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why isn’t this woman in a federal prison ?

Because Eric Holder in charge of DoJ?

4 posted on 03/11/2014 8:01:08 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: kristinn

“This is the only way to restore confidence in the IRS.”

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Two comments .....

1. As far as “restoring confidence” in the IRS, that horse has escaped the barn and is long gone. The IRS needs to be done away with by going to a tax system that doesn’t require it to exist. As long as it exists in its present form (enforcers/collectors, extensive tax code), it will be abused - either by using it to punish/harass perceived political ‘foes’ in a corrupt manner as by the Obama admin, or to provide loopholes for “friends” of Congress/political parties/president ... whatever (you get my point, I’m sure).

2. Lois Lerner needs to do JAIL time. Period.


5 posted on 03/11/2014 8:02:03 AM PDT by Qiviut (It's hard to be a donk if you're sane & it's hard to be a pubbie if you have any integrity.)
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To: kristinn
If this is true, Lois Lerner should be willing to return to Congress to testify about her actions.

More Issa BS. Form a House select committee and subpoena Lerner. Issa and Boehner are the problem. They are blocking any real investigation of IRS, Benghazi, or Fast and Furious. They can issue all the toothless reports they want.

6 posted on 03/11/2014 8:03:18 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kristinn
While I certainly find Lois Lerner's behavior alarming, we need to concentrate on the donut, not the hole. It's obvious to me from her behavior that this problem is systematic and not isolated. The ease with which she operated in this manner is what is most disturbing and I believe, indicative of the atmosphere within the IRS. It's a perverse agency that need not be rehabilitated but rather, abolished.
7 posted on 03/11/2014 8:12:10 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: kabar

Well, you have to admit: It’s sternly worded.


8 posted on 03/11/2014 8:12:17 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: kristinn

Don’t government officials have to sign some sort of agreement when they are hire that THEY will do their job with fairness to every american?

If so then we need to purge poilitical hacks next time we take over.

If there is NOT such an agreement when they are hired then we need to immediately impolement one - then purge them.

Mark Levin said the biggest obstacles Reagan faced were when he tried to implement conservative actions and they were stonewalled by carreer bureaucrats with left-wing bias.


9 posted on 03/11/2014 8:15:38 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: kristinn

For her crimes against the Republic, Lois Lerner should be tried and receive the death penalty


10 posted on 03/11/2014 8:15:56 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: kristinn

bookmark


11 posted on 03/11/2014 8:17:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why isn’t this woman in a federal prison.

Because Issa is a incompetent fool. Hold her in contempt and jailed. She will talk after a few weeks in jail. And if King Obama interferes, get that lazy ass Bonehead to proceed for immediate impeachment. We cannot afford to delay any longer.

12 posted on 03/11/2014 8:21:19 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Lerner should be in jail. If she is ever convicted, she can lose her pension.


13 posted on 03/11/2014 8:22:18 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: bert

They are just playing games, they could have put her away a long time ago! It is now perfectly OK to use every single government agency to punish anyone who speaks out against the current Nazi’s in control of our government.

It’s stunning how fast things are changing, but then again I believe it only took Hitler about 6 years from being virtually unknown to putting people in ovens.


14 posted on 03/11/2014 8:25:03 AM PDT by bigtoona
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To: Logical me; Eric in the Ozarks

So who does anyone think has the power to put her in prison?

Does anyone think that Eric Holder would put her in prison?

His JD is the only one who could.

Even then, a JD prosecutor would try her in front of a judge and jury.

I don’t know where people get the idea that Issa or anyone in Congress can put her in jail.


15 posted on 03/11/2014 8:25:04 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear. -Glenn Beck)
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To: txrangerette
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)

If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.

Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.

Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.

Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.


Some references

[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html

[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.”
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html

[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html
73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934)
https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit

[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear.
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html

[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf

[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement
http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/

16 posted on 03/11/2014 9:02:02 AM PDT by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: Ray76; txrangerette
SUPREME COURT RULES THAT CONGRESS CAN ARREST AND DETAIN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL WHO IGNORES SUBPOENA
17 posted on 03/11/2014 10:06:17 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

She was a Democrat crook abusing her authority over at the FEC. The Illinios thugs knew it and brought her into the IRS for that very reason.

She did exactly what they wanted her to do.


18 posted on 03/11/2014 10:09:20 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: kristinn

A sure sign that this is a MAJOR KABUKI THEATER production in Wash D.C. is the absence of ANY INDICTMENTS.


19 posted on 03/11/2014 10:33:23 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: kristinn

bkmk


20 posted on 03/11/2014 12:03:49 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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