Republican response: If we bend over will you hit us with another audit? Please??
But what are Republicans going to do about it? Nothing.
Super-duper speech by Camp. Wow, if only speeches could imprison, eh?
Now back to your regularly scheduled bread-and-circuses.
The House can and must put Lerner in jail.
Republican response, “When they spit in their faces we call it dew.” Let’s see where have we hear that before?
Here’s the e-mail chain in pdf:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/irs_grassley.pdf
it’s easy to read, although there are a few redactions.
Where are emails sent from a Blackberry are stored? On the device itself? If so, they should subpoena hers and those of the others whose HDDs mysteriously crashed.
Reposted with the names included that are missing from the orginal.
Here is more from Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of Ways and Means committee:
Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes a sitting United States Senator. According to emails reviewed by the Committee under its Section 6103 authority, which allows the Committee to review confidential taxpayer information, Lois Lerner sought to have Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.
We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking, said Camp. At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights. We may never know the full extent of the abuse since the IRS conveniently lost two years of Lerner emails, not to mention those of other key figures in this scandal. The fact that DOJ refuses to investigate the IRSs abuses or appoint a special counsel demonstrates, yet again, this Administrations unwillingness to uphold the rule of law.
Pssst, Lois. You don't haf to tell zeez svine anysing. Chust remember zot Herr Obama und I haf your beck. But if you screw up, bitte remember zot ve know vere you lif!
At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights.”
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She knew that she would get away with it, and she was right.