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Trey Gowdy: IRS' Lerner to be Held in Contempt of Congress Soon
NewsMax ^ | 3-26-2014 | Greg Richter

Posted on 03/26/2014 5:54:48 PM PDT by smoothsailing

March 26, 2014

Trey Gowdy: IRS' Lerner to be Held in Contempt of Congress Soon

Greg Richter

Former IRS official Lois Lerner will be held in contempt of Congress "in the very near future," Rep. Trey Gowdy told Fox News on Wednesday.

The South Carolina Republican sits on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and told "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" that he wants to see an end to the delay in providing subpoenaed emails from Lerner over the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

IRS Chief John Koskinen was grilled Wednesday by the committee over his agency's failure to produce the emails. Koskinen said it could take years to comply with the committee's request.

"All we want are the emails to or from Lois Lerner. I'm not talking about private taxpayer information," Gowdy told Van Susteren.

"Just emails like the one she sent celebrating a Democrat victory in a special election, calling on the FEC to save the day – overtly political, nothing to do with her job. We'll just settle for those," Gowdy added.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: contemptofcongress; gowdy; gregrichter; impeachnow; irs; irsteapartyscandal; lernercontempt; loislerner; southcarolina; treygowdy
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To: smoothsailing

Won’t amount to a hill of beans unfortunately.


41 posted on 03/26/2014 6:40:51 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: smoothsailing

The people holding the IRS hearings are beginning to remind me of Obama. A lot of promises, and a lot of bluster, but no delivery.


42 posted on 03/26/2014 6:41:48 PM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: smoothsailing
If she used her Fed.Gov computer to send congratulatory e-mails regarding election results, she is most definitely retarded at a minimum.

Lower level apparatchiks are crucified on a daily basis, but degenerates like Lerner and Sandy Berger always seem to skate.

IRS needs to go, replace it with some other less maniacal bureaucracy with extremely limited powers.

Does Russia have an IRS?

43 posted on 03/26/2014 6:44:05 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: smoothsailing

JUST DO IT ALREADY!


44 posted on 03/26/2014 6:46:28 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: smoothsailing

It’s become a Monty Python skit.
Issa and Co. should go away before the administration and IRS taunt them a second time.
Or is it a 19th time?


45 posted on 03/26/2014 6:47:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: smoothsailing
Would love to see Gowdy end up with Holder's job. We could get something done.
46 posted on 03/26/2014 6:51:40 PM PDT by parthian shot
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To: smoothsailing

Wake me when there are any consequences associated with the criminal behaviorS of anyone in this administration.


47 posted on 03/26/2014 6:52:28 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: himno hero

That went away when Kennedy allowed public employees to unionize and when government “workers” became de facto employees of the DNC.


48 posted on 03/26/2014 6:56:57 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: smoothsailing

Agreed, I trust him also.


49 posted on 03/26/2014 7:00:26 PM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: Norm Lenhart

And is Gowdy subject to the spinelessness of Issa or can he move forward with contempt charges unilaterally? I want Lerner held in a friggin’ cell until Gowdy and Issa are both that they’ve gotten all relevant correspondence. Then I want her in a cell for her crimes.

Is it too much to ask that our side actually make the other side play by the rules for once???


50 posted on 03/26/2014 7:01:35 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Well, people screamed loudly and often that ‘lesser evils’ were acceptable. And now that YET MORE the consequences of electing lesser evils becomes apparent, (IE an opposition party that prefers ignoring/attacking it’s own base rather than opposing, or in this case prosecuting), people should not be shocked that they get what they asked for.

Sucks for America but it is what it is.


51 posted on 03/26/2014 7:11:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (I)
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To: jazusamo

Just noticed something. Is Lois Hawaiian? 8^)

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52 posted on 03/26/2014 7:16:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
Lerner is part of the communists empire of King Obama. The contempt charge will be useless since King Obama will get out his pen and will put a protective curtain around her. Issa will get pissed but off the hook.
53 posted on 03/26/2014 7:26:57 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Patriot Babe

Okay, now THAT was funny! (and an insult to Keith by comparing him to Rosa DiLauro)


54 posted on 03/26/2014 7:35:07 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Wouldn’t that be great.


55 posted on 03/26/2014 7:43:28 PM PDT by Rodd OB (24 year Simi Valleyer)
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To: smoothsailing

Golly, she must be because there’s a strong resemblance to The Won. LOL!


56 posted on 03/26/2014 7:45:23 PM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: smoothsailing
Wednesday by the committee over his agency's failure to produce the emails. Koskinen said it could take years to comply with the committee's request.

“All we want are the emails to or from Lois Lerner. I'm not talking about private taxpayer information,” Gowdy told Van Susteren.

“Just emails like the one she sent celebrating a Democrat victory in a special election, calling on the FEC to save the day – overtly political, nothing to do with her job. We'll just settle for those,” Gowdy added.
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In other words, Issa already has had much of the emails leaked to the committee and is in possession of enough damaging e mails to prove a cover up and for obstruction of justice counts against various guilty parties and they are just letting the IRS dig themselves a deeper and more damaging cover up hole.

57 posted on 03/26/2014 7:51:15 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Rodd OB

We must keep REAL,,Hope...alive!


58 posted on 03/26/2014 7:55:04 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: rdcbn

I sure hope that’s what Issa is up to.


59 posted on 03/26/2014 7:55:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Aria
Let's see how he shakes out with amnesty. I suspect he's got Lindsey Graham disease. He has not come out strongly against amnesty, and has made noises that support Boehner on this. Anytime, Trey--make your position clear.

Remember…Bob Inglis.

60 posted on 03/26/2014 8:21:53 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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