Posted on 09/22/2014 5:27:09 AM PDT by upchuck
Employers won’t hire her. She’s been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.” Federal agents have guarded her house because of death threats. And she’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself against accusations she orchestrated a coverup in a scandal that has come to represent everything Americans hate about the IRS.
Lois Lerner is toxic — and she knows it. But she refuses to recede into anonymity or beg for forgiveness for her role in the IRS tea party-targeting scandal. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” Lerner said in her first press interview since the scandal broke 16 months ago. “I’m proud of my career and the job I did for this country.”
Lerner, who sat down with POLITICO in an exclusive two-hour session, has been painted in one dimension: as a powerful bureaucrat scheming with the Obama administration to cripple right-leaning nonprofits. Interviews with about 20 of her colleagues, friends and critics and a survey of emails and other IRS documents, however, reveal a much more complicated figure than the caricature she’s become in the public eye.
The portrait that emerges shows Lerner is, indeed, fierce, unapologetic and perhaps even tone-deaf when she says things that show her Democratic leanings. She had a quick temper and may have intimidated co-workers who could have helped her out of this mess. It’s easy to see how Republicans have seized on the image of a devilish figure cracking down on conservative nonprofits.
“We followed the trail where it leads, and we saw it lead to Lois Lerner,” House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said at a hearing Thursday. “She refers with disdain to conservatives; she’s an active liberal; and it’s clear her actions were set out to be detrimental to conservatives.”
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If I don’t pay my income taxes or even misrepresent my obligation, the government takes all my stuff and I go to jail.
Lois Lerner has compromised a national election and established the IRS as an agency of assault on those American citizens opposed to a totalitarian regime.
She gets to retire with a pension funded by me.
I think “dirty, unindicted criminal” is a much more appropriate epithet.
Her attorney’s fees are probably free as a professional courtesy to her husband. Hundreds of thousands I seriously doubt.
Lois Lerner is the poster child for the word BITCH. Her only close competitor is “thunder thighs Clinton.”
She's as much a victim as Alger Hiss.
Politco knows she is corrupt. I stopped reading their article (which noted her lawyers were present) when I came to this line:
"She studiously avoided answering fundamental questions about her role in the IRS scandal that could land her in deeper trouble with Congress."
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