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IRS: Mistakes Were Made
Breitbart ^ | 4/13/15 | staff

Posted on 04/13/2015 5:19:07 PM PDT by Nachum

Judicial Watch has just released a new batch of documents forced out of the IRS that show the Obama administration’s scandalous misuse of the IRS to target Tea Party and other conservatives goes far deeper than realized.

Included in the new batch of documents is a February 2012 email from Lois Lerner, who was then head of the IRS’ Exempt Organizations Branch, asking that a special program be set up to “put together some training points to help [IRS staffers] understand the potential pitfalls” of revealing too much information to Congress. Amid the hundreds of released pages, Judicial Watch also found a remarkable Lerner email from 2013 in which she says she is willing to take the blame for not having provided sufficient direction to her underlings on how best to investigate the targeted groups, and then concedes that she “understands why the IRS criteria” leading to targeting of Tea Party groups and other opponents of President Obama “might raise questions.”

In May 2013, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released an audit revealing the IRS had used “inappropriate criteria” to identify potential political cases. “Early in Calendar Year 2010,” TIGTA wrote, “the IRS began using inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status to (e.g., lists of past and future donors).” The illegal IRS reviews continued for more than 18 months and, TIGTA reported, “delayed processing of targeted groups’ applications” preparing for the 2012 presidential election.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010electionbias; 2012electionbias; cultureofcorruption; irs; lerner; obamalied; obamascandals; obamunism; partisanwitchhunt; smidgen
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1 posted on 04/13/2015 5:19:07 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 04/13/2015 5:19:27 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

They weren’t mistakes, they were felonies.


3 posted on 04/13/2015 5:20:12 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Nachum

Continual “mistakes” in the Obama Administration and its agencies. What’s new?


4 posted on 04/13/2015 5:20:41 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Nachum

Yet no charges have been preferred and no one is in jail.


5 posted on 04/13/2015 5:20:53 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Nachum
SMIDGEN??? #TRANSPARENCY
6 posted on 04/13/2015 5:21:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Nachum

Mistakes were made starting in about 1913.


7 posted on 04/13/2015 5:21:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Nachum

If several people don’t go to prison for this another mistake will be made.


8 posted on 04/13/2015 5:22:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: Nachum

Where is Congress in this investigation? Darrell Issaa? Why does it take Judicial Watch to get this out?


9 posted on 04/13/2015 5:23:23 PM PDT by Fungi (So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
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To: Nachum

All the wrong doing that has been done to people means little when the wrongdoers aren’t punished.

I am beyond disgust.

Someone like Hillary should never be allowed to run for President. But she is running in spite of her record of wrongdoing.

I really don’t give a crap anymore.


10 posted on 04/13/2015 5:23:24 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Nachum

Mistakes?

Is that how even the minutest inaccuracy would be treated on your tax return?

These people should be hanged for treason, starting with Lerner and Koskonen and the criminals that gave the orders.

It’s the only thing at this point that will get them in line.


11 posted on 04/13/2015 5:23:33 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: cripplecreek

Bingo! The first camel nose under the tent.


12 posted on 04/13/2015 5:24:41 PM PDT by Fungi (So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
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To: Nachum
Felonies by IRS and McCain and Obama
and imprison of felony of the entire EXEMPT Congress

"Now that the Ambassador is raped and dead
and our arms transfer to al Qaeda and murder covered up,
it is time to get the IRS to go after conservatives
... and then get our Issa and Cummings to cover it up."

13 posted on 04/13/2015 5:25:14 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Nachum

I wish Ted Cruz would make a campaign pledge to re-open the Lois Lerner investigation if he is elected. The statute of limitations will not have run out in 2017.


14 posted on 04/13/2015 5:25:18 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Nachum
IRS Mistakes were made!!

The big one was getting caught.

15 posted on 04/13/2015 5:25:37 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Nachum

How to Lie To & Deceive Congress In 10 Easy Steps by Lois Lerner.


16 posted on 04/13/2015 5:25:48 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Diogenesis

Great pic of Combover Carl....


17 posted on 04/13/2015 5:26:48 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Nachum

Yes mistakes were made, actually they believe they only made one mistake...........they got caught!


18 posted on 04/13/2015 5:29:44 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Someone should ask Obama about his ‘smidgen’ comment. ROTFLMAO! Sometimes I even kill myself!


19 posted on 04/13/2015 5:33:04 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Nachum

When they shift into passive voice you know they’re trying to spin their way out of responsibility.


20 posted on 04/13/2015 5:37:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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