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Lois Lerner's big mouth
American Thinker ^ | 07/11/2013 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 07/11/2013 8:01:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Lois Lerner is a nasty piece of work, and one aspect of her arrogance could well be her undoing. She enjoyed wielding her power so much that she boasted about it, and in doing so in a 2011 interview with Business Week, she conceded a point that could be used to prove criminal culpability. Patrick Frey, who writes Patterico's Pontifications, uncovered the incriminating crowing:

A reader sends a very interesting tidbit buried in a November 17, 2011 Businessweek.com article about the IRS and not-for-profit universities. The article is about the IRS making inquiries into "whether schools improperly claimed tax-exempt status for taxable businesses." At the end of the article is this fascinating quote:

Lois Lerner, the IRS's director of tax-exempt organizations who is overseeing the investigation, says many schools are rethinking how and what they report to the government. Receiving a thick questionnaire from the IRS, she says, is a "behavior changer."

Frey provides a timeline, noting the bragging took place months after the initiation of the targeting of conservatives and tea parties. Ed Morrissey explains the implication in the Fiscal Times:

The targeting of conservative groups by the tax-exempt unit Lerner ran also used the "thick questionnaire" tactic, which Lerner brags is a form of intimidation.  An entertaining timeline of the IRS targeting scandal compiled by Freedom Works, which supports and trains Tea Party activists and groups, shows Lerner found out about the targeting by June 27, 2011 at the latest, and had initiated an audit of the office and its "be on the lookout" (BOLO) list used for the targeting. 

That resulted in a broader BOLO being put into use, and five months later, Lerner is bragging about the "behavior changer" effect of IRS demands for extensive information.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; irs; irsbrownshirts; irsscandal; irsscandals; liberalfascism; loislerner; obama; scandals; teaparty
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To: Don Corleone

Politicians love to brag. Their self esteem demands it. So they boast about all the things they are going to do. Believe them! They tell you out front how they are going to RULE over you. Why is it that we are too dumb to listen? Obama’s books, speeches etc. said right out front that he was a socialista and determined to transform America into a socialist workers hell hole. His appointees are doing the same.


Add: 0bama let us know his contempt for the Constitution in 2003 in an interview with a Chicago-area NPR (of course!) station.

The standard proglodyte “charter of negative liberties” carp.


21 posted on 07/11/2013 10:52:45 AM PDT by Peet (Come back with a warrant.)
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To: V_TWIN

Let her take a fall? My bet is that he’ll be there to catapult her once her information starts getting a little too close to home,.


22 posted on 07/11/2013 11:50:15 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: TexasCajun

Is this b$tch still on the government payroll?


23 posted on 07/11/2013 3:29:23 PM PDT by freedom1st
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To: SeekAndFind

Well Lois, your actions sure have changed the minds of many Americans concerning the IRS. There is even talk from elected officials that your agency should be completely eliminated.


24 posted on 07/11/2013 4:08:12 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: SeekAndFind

Patrick Frey made a great observation, it was nicely noticed and written about, and then you too noticed and posted here.

THANKS for noticing and posting.

This goes to the core of her coercive and illegal operating procedures, and should be used in prosecuting her and her supervisors.


25 posted on 07/11/2013 7:23:33 PM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: SeekAndFind

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSnqy4HiYXmQi4OGpNxEFY6AxB1Cebo_K9JHCLd7wHlhRc3OdWx

Looks like he’s sniff’n camel arse.


26 posted on 07/12/2013 9:52:56 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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