I’m not surprised at der fuehrer.
FUBO
"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"?"
What, and lose their jobs? If the boss says it's OK, one is supposed to just shut up and go with it. /s
They're called embeds.
And most insidiously ... the embeds don't even know why they're there.
Just doin' m'job, Cap'n.
The Nuremburg defense, just following orders.
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.
Hmmm, they really do need to do some research on the “we were just following orders” excuse.
In his bunker Hitler wondered why the Russians were so pissed off...
Then the House (the Senate will only obstruct justice here) better get them to confess their crimes and get them to rat out their bosses just like prosecuters lean on the mob’s street thugs to get the bosses. I hope they can break the Dem’s code of omerta.
And, of course, there were no "tea party" or "patriot" or any other conservative group that "sailed through" the applications process. They were all hung up and delayed - no doubt for the sake of "consistency." And why questions about donors? About what prayers were said? About what the group was reading?
Just following orders? Where have we heard that one before?
The American Thinker got it right - and the Washington Post was played for fools... Nixon would have been our first dictator if the Washington Post reporters were as stupid then as they are today...
“Why does anyone need a gun that holds thirty bullets?”
As bad as this appears it will come to nothing. It is not the worst thing the ostoner gang is doing. It is controlled by ostoner and can’t be pinned on him. He knows that and that is why it was “leaked” and got this whole mess started.
It will come to nothing while, out of scrutiny, something much worse is concluded.
It could backfire because of the arrogance of Miller and the outrage it sparks but I doubt it.
"IRS employees are members of the NTEU. The NTEU that is using money from these very same IRS employees to fund the campaigns of anti-Tea Party candidates like Baldwin, Donnelly, McCaskill, Pelosi and Hoyer. Not to mention all the rest of the Democrats who got a piece of the IRS employee money action.
As one would suspect, given the enormous clout of the liberal IRS union, it’s all about the politics. Liberal politics and the financing of the liberal welfare state...
...the NTEU, which gave 94% of its campaign money to anti-Tea Party candidates, has the clout within the IRS to demand a say in who can and cannot carry a Blackberry and receive other high tech communications equipment...
This doesn’t even mention the power the NTEU has inside the IRS to decide everything from promotion rules to size of employee workspaces and on and on.
So the obvious.
If you are working in the IRS, and you are an NTEU member, and you know your union leadership is funneling your union dues to anti-Tea Party candidates, and your union has so much raw power within the IRS that they even control whether you, an IRS employee, can get even such mundane tech gear as a Blackberry — what attitude are you going to display as you review Tea Party applications that must, by law, come in to the IRS for approval?
You already know what to do. And inside the IRS, that’s exactly what was done. The Tea Party, in the vernacular, was screwed. By IRS bureaucrats whose union money is being used to attack the Tea Party. Of course these IRS employees know what to do — most probably without even being asked. There is no need to ask. And if they don’t follow the union program — and want a Blackberry — tough luck..."
During the hours of testimony on Friday, did anyone ask point blank:
“Did YOU instruct IRS staff to scrutinize conservative 501C4 applicants?”