Email Reveals Lois Lerner Ignored Political Expenditures By Unions

the daily caller ^ | 9/1/14 | Connor D. Wolf

[Nachum]

The official at the center of the Internal Revenue Service tea party scandal once dismissed complaints that labor unions were not reporting millions of dollars in political activities on their tax forms, according to an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

In 2007, Lerner responded directly to a complaint that some major labor unions reported completely different amounts of political expenditures when filing with the IRS and the Department of Labor.

At the time of the email, Lerner was the Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS.

Lerner wrote, “We looked at the information you provided regarding organizations that report substantial amounts of political activity and lobbying expenditures on the DOL Form LM-2, but report little to no political expenditures on the Form 990 filed with the IRS.”

“We believe this difference in reporting does not necessarily indicate that the organization has incorrectly reported to either the DOL or the IRS,” Lerner concluded.

Don Todd, the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) at the time the email was sent, confirmed seeing Lerner’s email and remembering similar complaints at the time. OLMS oversees labor union financial disclosures within the Department of Labor.

[Nachum]

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[Jet Jaguar]

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[nathanbedford]

We are not dealing here with a person who is misinformed, we are not dealing here with a person who is of below average intelligence, we are not dealing here with a person who is uneducated, we are dealing with a pathology which infects much of our culture and dominates the administration of Barack Obama and the Democrat party.

The pathology is one that is immune to reason, argument, or dialogue because it has nothing to do with reason, rather it is a soul sickness, a mental illness, akin to what one sees in a cult. This lady does not ride on the back of a motorcycle and sport tattoos but her mental processes are those of a bitch for the Bloods and Crips.

Our job is not to find ways to reason with people like this but find ways to breach the mental moats which immunize them from common sense and reason, much as a psychiatrist would try to break through the metal shields which remove a neurotic from reason. It is pointless to reason with a drunk and it is hopeless to reason with the member of a cult. It is besides the point to call them stupid or uneducated.

They require intervention not negotiation. But our society shrinks from such interventions because we believe in liberty even the right to be wrong. But we pay an awful price for our principles because we render ourselves impotent in the face of an existential threat to our way of life. This cancer is metastasizing and infecting greater and greater portions of our society but we have not found a way to treat it, for it requires treatment not debate. One cannot reason with a member of a cult, that person's sanity can only be restored with an intervention and with isolation from the cult.

We conservatives persist in believing that because we have reason and common sense on our side we should prevail in a civil society. The cult changes all of that. The psychology of collectivism is, in effect, a cult whose whole methodology is to substitute ideology for reason, emotion for judgment, evil for good, right for wrong.

[nathanbedford]

Sorry, my immediate previous post was intended for a different thread.

[tumblindice]

Just as Kim ll-sung read Orwell’s book ‘1984’ and said to himself, “I can make that work.” Lois Lerner and her fellow scurrying federal beetles saw the movie ‘Brazil’ and dedicated their lives to changing America into a mind-numbing, soul-crushing, bureaucratic, socialist ‘worker’s paradise’.

[Candor7]

“We believe this difference in reporting does not necessarily indicate that the organization has incorrectly reported to either the DOL or the IRS,”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thats way too much power in the hands of one individual.

[Madame Dufarge]

I found it perfectly applicable to Lois Lerner.

[billhilly]

It could be concluded that Lois Lerner was doing her job exactly as she knew and understood it to be by her political bosses. Further, she exulted in doing it.

[nathanbedford]

You are probably right, the pathology seems to infect them right across the board. I am trying to figure out a methodology to sort out the Kool-Aid drinkers from those who stir the drink, a way of distinguishing cult leaders from cult followers. I would welcome views on the different motivations of the Saul Alinsky motivating speaker from those who listen.

[Whenifhow]

Perhaps more revelations soon...

IRS produced 1,361 pages of documents to Judicial Watch on August 27

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3199518/posts

[Envisioning]

This cannot stand. This is tantamount to an act of civil war and should be treated as such.