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Trump administration officially apologizes for IRS tea party targeting [Lois Lerner guilty]
The Washington Times ^ | October 25, 2017 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 10/26/2017 12:47:25 PM PDT by 4Liberty

Agreement specifically blames Lois Lerner by name for failures

The IRS admitted in court Wednesday that it wrongly targeted tea party and other conservative groups for intrusive scrutiny, placing specific blame on former senior executive Lois G. Lerner, and entered into a settlement designed to make sure that kind of political targeting never takes place again.

The filing, made in federal court in Washington, D.C., amounts to a stunning apology from the Trump administration for actions taken under President Barack Obama, when hundreds of tea party and conservative groups were singled out for intrusive screening, forced to wait years for their applications to be approved, and subjected to outrageous questions.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; bhoirs; corruption; irs; irscorruption; irsscandal; lerner; loislerner; obama; teaparty; third100days; trumpirs
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To: 4Liberty

“..hundreds of tea party and conservative groups were singled out for intrusive screening, forced to wait years for their applications to be approved, and subjected to outrageous questions.”

These tea party and conservative groups were trying to start up before the 2012 election.

Lois Lerner IRS threw an election by trying to keep these groups from forming, from assembling, and from distributing their information freedom of press.

Lois Lerner IRS and those around her should be thrown in jail for:
1) throwing the 2012 election
2) keeping groups from freedom of assembly
3) keeping groups from freedom of press


41 posted on 10/26/2017 1:29:31 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: 4Liberty

And yet liberals still claim “there was nothing there”. They’re incapable of being honest with themselves.


42 posted on 10/26/2017 1:31:03 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: 4Liberty

They need to take away her pension.

They need to break her with law suits. She took away the rights of equal protection. I think a nice class action toret suit against her should break her enough.


43 posted on 10/26/2017 1:31:30 PM PDT by poinq
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To: 4Liberty
Does this clear the way for charges to be brought against Lerner?

Or a civil trial against her?

44 posted on 10/26/2017 1:36:33 PM PDT by Pietro
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To: lee martell

And all employees involved prosecuted and pensions lost. These people knew what was happening was wrong. They should go down as well.


45 posted on 10/26/2017 1:41:18 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Trump is the voice of the US Government! It is not Trump apologizing.


46 posted on 10/26/2017 1:42:21 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: dangus

Yeah, an “interim” commissioner to replace Obama’s guy when Obama’s guy’s term ends in three weeks...


47 posted on 10/26/2017 1:43:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: All

Put the blatant criminal in prison, or there is no law. She did many illegal acts and every real USAian knows it.

DC, the district of high crimes, misdemenors, cover-up and deep, dark secrets.


48 posted on 10/26/2017 1:52:48 PM PDT by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Democrats may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: 9YearLurker

“I don’t want apologies—I want prosecutions.”

The O’muslim regime weaponized the federal gubbermint against the American people. It’s called high treason.

I want treason trials and hangings.


49 posted on 10/26/2017 1:53:11 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Understand. But this is significant from a strategic angle.


50 posted on 10/26/2017 1:57:28 PM PDT by JimSp
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To: Thrownatbirth
But Obama promised “not even a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS...

There can be no doubt that he kept that promise.There wasn't a smidgen....there was a *deluge* of corruption.

51 posted on 10/26/2017 2:05:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Rusty0604
Lois got her pension and a good recommendation so she’s fine.

Yeah, well. She's doing good...so far.
But don't forget, it ain't over till Michelle sings.

In what universe is an apology enough? Whether this case is tort alone or includes allegations of felony, the solution involves possible prison bars and certainly dead presidents. Lots of them.

52 posted on 10/26/2017 2:08:14 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: 9YearLurker
"I don’t want apologies—I want prosecutions."

Exactly.

53 posted on 10/26/2017 2:09:44 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: 4Liberty

She should be in jail.


54 posted on 10/26/2017 2:11:21 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: JimSp

How is that?


55 posted on 10/26/2017 2:20:28 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: JimSp
"Understand. But this is significant from a strategic angle."

JimSp you earned poster of the day, bingo, I didn't think of it...

1st you apologize and then...

Now are Strategy is to send in a "fixer" and change the culture and change the rules and behaviors.

And the Strategy to voters that this is fixed, and won't happen again.

And the Strategy that we now have to clean house after these sins.

And the Strategy we will run the IRS more like a top customer service organization, think Fed-Ex.

Outstanding Jim!

56 posted on 10/26/2017 2:20:58 PM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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To: 4Liberty
... entered into a settlement designed to make sure that kind of political targeting never takes place again...and also hopefully stripping Lerner of her taxpayer-funded big bucks pension...or since now that the government has officially admitted the IRS and Lerner did wrong, maybe it's up to a class-action suit by those taxpayers themselves to relieve her of her pension.....
57 posted on 10/26/2017 2:21:52 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 4Liberty

Obama is the one who should apologize.

Lois Lerner and others should be in jail.


58 posted on 10/26/2017 2:28:40 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: 9YearLurker

I don’t want Lois Lerner in jail. I don’t want to pay for her jail time keep. I don’t want to pay for her keep out of jail either. Taking away her government pension would be enough justice to satisfy me.


59 posted on 10/26/2017 2:38:43 PM PDT by garfield (garfield)
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To: 9YearLurker
I don’t want apologies—I want prosecutions.

I don’t want apologies—I want HEADS!

60 posted on 10/26/2017 2:48:40 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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