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IRS Emails: Lerner Too 'Unpredictable' to Testify in Probe
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Posted on 03/11/2014 8:59:38 AM PDT by don-o

Lois Lerner, who oversaw the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of tea party groups, was looking for someone from every branch of government to help resolve the issue that eventually cost her job.

In emails being released today by a congressional committee, Lerner wondered why Congress wasn’t getting more criticism, hoped that the Federal Election Commission would "save the day" and wrote that political nonprofit groups "itching for a constitutional challenge" might file a court case that leads the IRS to accelerate the release of specific information about groups denied tax-exempt status.

The emails are part of a 141-page report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The panel is building a case designed to lead to a vote to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer the committee’s questions and for providing false and misleading information in prior questioning.

"She led efforts to scrutinize conservative groups while working to maintain a veneer of objective enforcement," the report said of Lerner. "Her unwillingness to testify deprives Congress the opportunity to have her explain her conduct, hear her response to personal criticisms levied by her IRS co-workers, and provide vital context regarding the actions of other IRS officials."

Lerner has refused to answer lawmakers’ questions, twice invoking her constitutional right not to testify.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; issa; lerner
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1 posted on 03/11/2014 8:59:38 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

No matter what, this will never get to Obama because he didn’t have to tell her to audit only conservatives. He just knew she was a kindred soul who hated conservatives as much as he does.


2 posted on 03/11/2014 9:05:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: don-o

DO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES UNTIL THIS BITCH IS HUNG FROM THE TREE OF LIBERTY.


3 posted on 03/11/2014 9:07:26 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow
DO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES UNTIL THIS BITCH IS HUNG FROM THE TREE OF LIBERTY.

Inspiring but I'm still gonna mail my 4 grand check on April 15.

4 posted on 03/11/2014 9:10:15 AM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: don-o
Apparently Lerner's boss was not overseeing her or worse was egging her on. How high will this go? What did the President know and when dis he know it? This is a much bigger deal than a third rate burglary and 18 minutes missing from a tape that you can bet the current administration wouldn't have turned over.
5 posted on 03/11/2014 9:10:27 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: don-o

I wouldn’t give her immunity. She would then just make further fools out of the GOP.


6 posted on 03/11/2014 9:11:06 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Nachum

For the list.


7 posted on 03/11/2014 9:11:11 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: longfellow

It ain’t just her. The whole thing has to go.


8 posted on 03/11/2014 9:11:34 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


9 posted on 03/11/2014 9:12:21 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: don-o

Ways and Means has a committee looking into this too. They have greater access to IRS, including the ability to look at the actual returns and such, which no other Congressional committee has. Let’s hope they also have the gonads that Darrel Issa (Neuter-CA) clearly lacks.


10 posted on 03/11/2014 9:13:57 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
No matter what, this will never get to Obama because he didn’t have to tell her to audit only conservatives. He just knew she was a kindred soul who hated conservatives as much as he does.

I agree, but at this point I don't care if it does not go higher than her. Lerner needs to be doing some jail time.

11 posted on 03/11/2014 9:15:17 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
He just knew she was a kindred soul who hated conservatives as much as he does.

Exactly. Our government is full of these unethical scumbags who see winning at any cost as right and losing for any reason is wrong.
12 posted on 03/11/2014 9:16:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
No matter what, this will never get to Obama because he didn’t have to tell her to audit only conservatives. He just knew she was a kindred soul who hated conservatives as much as he does.

Agreed. There is no smoking gun here. It is simply the MO of this administration. Reward your friends and punish your enemies. It's the Chicago way!
13 posted on 03/11/2014 9:19:33 AM PDT by slumber1 (Moderation is overrated)
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To: slumber1

She is seeking amnesty and not getting it because she has no one higher to throw to the wolves.


14 posted on 03/11/2014 9:22:09 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: longfellow; All

“DO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES UNTIL THIS BITCH IS HUNG FROM THE TREE OF LIBERTY”

Save that one for future ‘caption this photo’ threads, it’s perfect for most of them!


15 posted on 03/11/2014 9:23:25 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: nascarnation

How about bumper stickers?


16 posted on 03/11/2014 9:32:45 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: slumber1

Our country took bizarre punishments during the sequester and I bet most barely remember this....or care.

Remember, we couldn’t look at Mt Rushmore....couldn’t drink from a fountain in Yellowstone...vets couldn’t visit an open air monument and on and on. How blatently absurd and outrageous - yet they got away with it. What was especially bizarre to me is that the government employees actually followed orders to enforce this travesty. Doesn’t say much about integrity in our government employees.

So what’s a little IRS bad behavior? Do most people even care?


17 posted on 03/11/2014 9:34:35 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: dblshot

>> How high will this go?

Lerner granted the Barrack H Obama Foundation, owned by Malik Obama an alien resident with documented ties to terrorist organizations, 501(c)(3) status. Processing was expedited, the status was granted on Sunday June 26, 2011, and was retroactive 38 months.

How high? All the way.


18 posted on 03/11/2014 9:41:46 AM PDT by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: longfellow

I say we hold protests at every post office on April 15th and BURN our tax returns. Right there in front of God and everybody.

Screw these tyrants! Screw this government!


19 posted on 03/11/2014 10:07:28 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Turkey neck should be in jail.


20 posted on 03/11/2014 10:16:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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