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Cincinnati IRS employees 'surprised' at furor (it all comes from the top)
AmericanThinker.com ^ | 5/18/2013 | Rick Moran

Posted on 05/18/2013 7:01:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

More utter cluelessness from IRS employees, plus, as a bonus, some "Good German" excuses for why the targeting of conservative groups happened.

Washington Post:

As could be expected, the folks in the determinations unit on Main Street have had trouble concentrating this week. Number crunchers, whose work is nonpolitical, don't necessarily enjoy the spotlight, especially when the media and the public assume they're engaged in partisan villainy.

"We're not political,'' said one determinations staffer in khakis as he left work late Tuesday afternoon. "We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do. . . . That's why there are so many people here who are flustered. Everything comes from the top. We don't have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive [emphasis added]."

And not one of them raised an alarm? Not one of them even

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cincinnati; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; loislerner; obama; ohio; scandal; tax
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1 posted on 05/18/2013 7:01:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m not surprised at der fuehrer.

FUBO


2 posted on 05/18/2013 7:02:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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"And not one of them raised an alarm? Not one of them even considered the idea that, "hey, this looks bad even though we're blameless"?"

3 posted on 05/18/2013 7:02:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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And not one of them raised an alarm?

What, and lose their jobs? If the boss says it's OK, one is supposed to just shut up and go with it. /s

4 posted on 05/18/2013 7:02:31 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Lose their job, get a bad reference letter, and then get audited by their former employer.


5 posted on 05/18/2013 7:05:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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To: PGalt

...but ve vere just following zee orders ve vere given...now, papuhs...let me see your papuhs pleez....


6 posted on 05/18/2013 7:07:07 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: RoosterRedux
"Everything comes from the top. We don't have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive [emphasis added]."
And not one of them raised an alarm? Not one of them even"

They're called embeds.

And most insidiously ... the embeds don't even know why they're there.

Just doin' m'job, Cap'n.

7 posted on 05/18/2013 7:07:54 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: RoosterRedux

The WP posted this in their “Style” section?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-cincinnati-irs-office-surprise-over-claims-of-partisan-villainy/2013/05/17/f693c60e-bd81-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style


8 posted on 05/18/2013 7:08:40 AM PDT by maggief
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To: RoosterRedux

The Nuremburg defense, just following orders.


9 posted on 05/18/2013 7:11:55 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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"And not one of them raised an alarm? Not one of them even considered the idea that, "hey, this looks bad even though we're blameless"?"

I was just following orders. I'm low-level. No need to bite the hand that feeds me. Etc., etc.

Aid, comfort, paychecks, bonuses, pensions, perks to domestic enemies and their enablers/wannabees/underlings/second-handers/see-hear-speak no evil weaklings never defined or envisioned by the founders.

NOW is their opportunity to come clean.

10 posted on 05/18/2013 7:12:57 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: RoosterRedux

Anyone that would actually work for the IRS isn’t worth a flippin’ camel crap to start with. Just look at the commissioner yesterday if you need proof. Congress needs to indite that clown...talk about arrogance.


11 posted on 05/18/2013 7:12:58 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Those darned Rogue Agents again!


12 posted on 05/18/2013 7:14:17 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: maggief

Thx for that, Maggie.


13 posted on 05/18/2013 7:15:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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To: Travis McGee

For a guy who is all knowing what’s best for the rest of the unwashed world, Obama is stunningly ignorant of what goes on around him by his own lieutenants. So, he’s either a first class liar or a total fraud, or both.


14 posted on 05/18/2013 7:19:01 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: lgjhn23

I’ll be IRS employees even maintain their own “Judenraete” councils. How else could you personally justify working for the most monstrous organization in the US? How would you like to go to work every day having your “company” and your role vilified and hated by every American? People who take jobs at the IRS are the lowest level pond scum possible.


15 posted on 05/18/2013 7:20:08 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: RoosterRedux

Hmmm, they really do need to do some research on the “we were just following orders” excuse.


16 posted on 05/18/2013 7:20:21 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Why is it that everyone’s in-print faux-German accent reminds me irresistibly of Zsa Zsa Gabor?


17 posted on 05/18/2013 7:22:31 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: RoosterRedux

In his bunker Hitler wondered why the Russians were so pissed off...


18 posted on 05/18/2013 7:22:57 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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19 posted on 05/18/2013 7:29:02 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: lgjhn23
Anyone that would actually work for the IRS isn’t worth a flippin’ camel crap to start with. Just look at the commissioner yesterday if you need proof. Congress needs to indite that clown...talk about arrogance.

Next time this creep is questioned I hope the questions include "what kind of salary were you making" and "What do you expect your pension to be?" Then that pension needs to be taken away. After all he has confessed his incompetence.

20 posted on 05/18/2013 7:30:34 AM PDT by McGavin999
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