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Trump administration officially apologizes for IRS tea party targeting [Lois Lerner guilty]
The Washington Times ^ | October 25, 2017 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 10/26/2017 12:47:25 PM PDT by 4Liberty

Agreement specifically blames Lois Lerner by name for failures

The IRS admitted in court Wednesday that it wrongly targeted tea party and other conservative groups for intrusive scrutiny, placing specific blame on former senior executive Lois G. Lerner, and entered into a settlement designed to make sure that kind of political targeting never takes place again.

The filing, made in federal court in Washington, D.C., amounts to a stunning apology from the Trump administration for actions taken under President Barack Obama, when hundreds of tea party and conservative groups were singled out for intrusive screening, forced to wait years for their applications to be approved, and subjected to outrageous questions.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; bhoirs; corruption; irs; irscorruption; irsscandal; lerner; loislerner; obama; teaparty; third100days; trumpirs
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1 posted on 10/26/2017 12:47:26 PM PDT by 4Liberty
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I don’t want apologies—I want prosecutions.


2 posted on 10/26/2017 12:48:17 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 4Liberty

But Obama promised “not even a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS in his 2014 pre-Superbowl rant.


3 posted on 10/26/2017 12:49:12 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: 4Liberty

We don’t need an apology - we need her doing hard time!


4 posted on 10/26/2017 12:49:35 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: 4Liberty

We don’t need any word-heavy apology, however well intentioned it actually may be.
We need Lois Lerner behind bars and/or SEVERELY fined for breaking the law.


5 posted on 10/26/2017 12:49:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 4Liberty

“an apology from the Trump Administration”....are they nuts??


6 posted on 10/26/2017 12:50:17 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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If a private business person did this they would be in jail and adios pension.


7 posted on 10/26/2017 12:50:43 PM PDT by Jolla
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The Obama years, the most scandal-free administration in U. S. History...

Talk about B. S.


8 posted on 10/26/2017 12:50:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Rush Limbaugh: 45% of California families speak a foreign language at home. Oth src: full U.S. 21%)
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To: 9YearLurker

Don’t miss the fact that this will leave a mark.

Most importantly, don’t miss the fact that Trump knows what he’s doing.


9 posted on 10/26/2017 12:51:35 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: 4Liberty

BET SHE’S AN anti-Semitic cOMMI TO.


10 posted on 10/26/2017 12:51:53 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: 4Liberty

It used to be more common for other cultures to demand apologies after feeling they were slighted.
This used to be more common with Chinese and Japanese people.
Now many Americans have placed a high intrinsic value on a social gesture that is often nothing but a transparent, poorly executed act of contrition. Sad!


11 posted on 10/26/2017 12:53:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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Lock them up.


12 posted on 10/26/2017 12:54:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Thrownatbirth

The IRS was going to stonewall the TEA Party applications regardless of who was in the White House. To an IRS agent, “TEA” = “RIF.” It was an existential threat to far too many comfortable powerful bureaucrats. We shouldn’t expect them to go quietly without a fight.

It’s proof that the federal permanent bureaucracy has grown far too large and powerful; it no longer recognizes any restraint on its power. Not from Congress, which it openly defies at every turn, not from the elected Executive, which it routinely ignores. Not from any Court it disagrees with.

And certainly not from the American people, over whom it rules.


13 posted on 10/26/2017 12:54:53 PM PDT by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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To: 4Liberty

Im sorry..but WHAT..why is Trump apologizing he wasn’t even part of this had nothing to do with it..and I dont want apologizes..I want these ass clowns in JAIL for what they did


14 posted on 10/26/2017 12:55:04 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Agreement specifically blames Lois Lerner by name for failures

I read the article. Nothing about punishment for Lois Lerner. Remember, she targeted Tea Party groups in election years 2011-12 to benefit Barack Hussein Obama. These groups did not receive tax exempt status, and therefore could not raise funds to oppose Barack Hussein Obama and promote Liberty. THEY NEED TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT!!

15 posted on 10/26/2017 12:55:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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LOCK HER UP. IF IT WERE ME I’D ALREADY BE IN JAIL.

STOP LETTING THE CROOKS GET AWAY CLEAN.


16 posted on 10/26/2017 12:56:53 PM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks murdered he was, cover up it is)
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To: 4Liberty

Jail the crook and jail her boss too.


17 posted on 10/26/2017 12:57:25 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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Trump should visit every stop on the Obama Apology Tour, and take it back. Then apologize for Obama.


18 posted on 10/26/2017 12:58:11 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: 4Liberty

the democrat party has it’s own sergeant shultz

She knows NOTHINK!

Hillary Rodham Shultz Clinton


19 posted on 10/26/2017 12:58:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Rush Limbaugh: 45% of California families speak a foreign language at home. Oth src: full U.S. 21%)
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Her actions also benefited the republican leadership. They knew and did nothing.


20 posted on 10/26/2017 12:59:31 PM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks murdered he was, cover up it is)
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