Posted on 05/22/2013 7:27:34 AM PDT by DFG
After the IRS revealed it had wrongly targeted hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups, the agency claimed that the misconduct was limited to "low-level employees" in its Cincinnati office. Yesterday, the attorney for Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations division, told the House Oversight Committee she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights, making that explanation much less credible.
Now the local Cincinnati Fox affiliate, FOX19, has done some digging and uncovered information suggesting that top officials at the IRS weren't too far removed from the six low-level employees identified as making unjustified inquiries. Fox19 has not only identified all six IRS agents in question, it turns out that they all have only one supervisor in common:
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No one in the lower levels of the IRS gets to do what those people did without being told to do it. They simply don’t have the authority. Had they been caught violating protocol, they’d be in trouble. Lerner’s refusal to testify, if in fact, she has done nothing wrong, is curious. This thing stinks and it’s getting stinkier as the days pass.
...not limited to “low information” employees
Low-level employees?...BULLSHIT!...The poop trail runs all the way to Odinga!
Where I work (and I assume this is increasingly the case EVERYWHERE) the conflict of interest rules are positively STRIDENT!
You mean to tell me there are NONE in place when it comes to Presidents’ administrations? THAT is the place conflict of interest issues are MOST significant and potentially dangerous!
If you listen to the audio in that video while you watch it, you will notice that the weapons operator on the AC-130 is on the radio with not one but two commanders. As I understand it, one is his direct commander, and the other is a CIA employee who has responsibility for designating targets. These three individuals are in constant communication via satellite, and the weapons operator - a "low level employee" - doesn't do a single thing without being directly ordered to do so. He does precisely what he is told to do, and doesn't do anything he isn't expressly told to do.
That is the chain of command in the Government. It's all about control. The government controls its own employees to at least the extent they try to control ordinary citizens; in reality, individual employees work under almost straitjacket-type conditions. The only difference for the civilians is that they get all kinds of breaks during the course of the day, and very generous vacations and other perks.
The idea that some "low level" IRS employees at some field office initiated nationwide harassment of TEA Party groups is ludicrous.
Chris Matthews
George Stephanopoulos
Chuck Todd
Those are just the ones I can quickly think of. I know there are many, many more who left “journalism” to work for Obama or some Democrat. And guys like Ezra Klein don't count as they are simply known partisan “journalist” hacks.
Need Nuremberg style trials. This is the tip of the iceberg continuing the court ordered biases to liberals and irresponsible parties.
Sending the jew child to the camp is going virtualy in earnest there. The madness of the filthy retards in the White Hut and down is “all too successful” indeed.
The dam is leaking....
Smarty, I do mean to tell you.... LAWS DO NOT APPLY TO DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS. They get appointed to ethics panels when they are caught with $90K in bribe cash in their freezer and on tape. When the cheat on their taxes, they get appointed to run the FED and Treasury. They get let off when they steal Top Secret documents pertinent to the 9/11 commission investigation. They lose their law license for getting BJs in the oval office and then commit perjury to cover it up. They don't even get questioned when a girl drowns in a wrecked car when a drunk liberal politician leaves her to die.
But let a special prosecutor investigate a bogus outing of a CIA desk jockey and watch a Scooter Libby go to jail because he couldn't remember what he said 2 years prior about something completely unrelated and long after they found out that a democrat "outed" her.
This is the absolute root of the conservative opposition of this tyrannical federal government. Justice is no longer blind.
In an organization like the irs everyone knows there is no room for personal initiative - that you can not just decide to do something on your own. All policy decisions come from the top.
They take us for fools.
The Fifth Amendment allows you to answer in a courtroom (same rules as for a Congressional hearing) your name and date of birth. NOTHING ELSE, PERIOD.
She has just created a major deluge of trouble for herself.
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