Posted on 09/08/2017 12:48:12 PM PDT by gubamyster
The Trump administration has no plans to charge former IRS official Lois Lerner over her role in the Tea Party targeting scandal, the Justice Department said Friday in response to calls by Republican lawmakers to revisit the case.
In a letter to the lawmakers, the Justice Department said that "reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence."
This past April, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., had asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take a "fresh look" at the case.
Despite numerous hearings and inquiries into the tough treatment of conservative groups by the tax agency during the 2010 and 2012 elections, the Obama Justice Department had announced in 2015 that no one at the IRS would be prosecuted. They said at the time that investigators had "found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution."
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She’s just as protected as she was with Obama and Hillary. Why not give her a medal?
Charge her ! Don’t flake out !....
It looks like business as usual. The fix was in from day 1.
She can get a cush job with Bill Ayers.
I’m getting tired of all this “winning.”
Why the hell not ! Same BS,another day that ends in y.
Really? Based on the evidence?
You mean all of the Obstruction of Justice, lying, computer destruction of the very first case of actually weaponizing the IRS, you can’t any basis dor felony charges.
If this is all we can expect from the Justice Department, we got sold a bill of goods. Might as well forget about all the other promises too.
All of these players should have been in GITMO already.
Of course, she is a member of the bourgeois.
post of the day.
Fire Sessions; we need a man to man the DOJ, not the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
What does Sessions get paid for?
Is the work too hard for him?
Is it just too much work to do justice for the American people???
I think we should out source about half of his job to Judicial Watch. They seem to be the only people working & coming up with information.
Everybody walks from the Kenyanesian Usurpation because NO ONE has clean hands.
They ALL cooperated to violate the Constitution.
I’m going to throw this out there. She was a political appointee. She did what she was told to do by Obama. If she refused she would be destroyed or suicided.
What would you do?
Lois got a “Participation Award”....aka retirement check.
Probably not worth the effort unless they can really get her on the big stuff.
Either he’s giving up, or he’s decided to do the exact same thing to anyone, Dim or GOPe, that challenges him.
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