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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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To: 9YearLurker

Let’s see what happens. I say you’re wrong. It will leave a huge mark.

Trump’s success rate is far beyond anything anyone could have expected, given that he’s opposed by the democrat party who hide the fact that they’re communist, the republican party who hide the fact that they’re democrats, the media who can’t admit they’re anti-American subversives, and Hollywood who hide the fact they’re rapists and child molesters.


61 posted on 10/26/2017 2:54:17 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

How can you apologize and leave the same creep who covered it all up in charge of the department?


62 posted on 10/26/2017 2:54:48 PM PDT by kempster
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To: 9YearLurker

Yeah, and some reparations, too. The man owes for this. How about a little affirmative action.


63 posted on 10/26/2017 2:56:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Sacajaweau
We're sorry the previous administration were such crooks.

I wonder if this is anything like when various governmental organizations intentionally lose lawsuits to be "forced" into doing what they want to do anyway. Get some court ordered swamp draining if the alligators are to thick to do it any other way.

64 posted on 10/26/2017 3:07:43 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Thrownatbirth
“But Obama promised “not even a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS in his 2014 pre-Superbowl rant.”

Obama is a delusional but fervent ideologue who is so convinced that his ridiculous and indefensible world view is right such that he can rationalize any personal behavior. He truly needs to travel the world and educate himself, because he is currently the opposite of worldly. Beyond that, he's also a bit of a racist. So much for the enlightenment of law school.

65 posted on 10/26/2017 3:32:47 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: garfield

Taking away her pension would be a start, but what she did was so serious as to deserve jail time—which would likely be the only way to deter her type in the future.


66 posted on 10/26/2017 3:34:37 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 4Liberty
When you apply for a mortgage the IRS is notified

During this period of Lois Lerner I was making monthly payments for back taxes to IRS. I applied for a loan to refinance my house with no cash out, just lower interest/payment.

I received a letter from the IRS addressed to me IN LONG HAND (cursive)from an IRS office notifying me that they placed a lien on my house...

67 posted on 10/26/2017 3:37:40 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Transgender: A person who thinks s/he's wrong side out.)
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To: henkster

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.


IRS, FBI and the so-called “intelligence community” are among the agencies that are mainly interested in political operations against American citizens. Shut ‘em all down.


68 posted on 10/26/2017 4:00:17 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: 4Liberty

He don’t need to apologize for the IRS Zero Does..


69 posted on 10/26/2017 4:21:21 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: 4Liberty
I think this opens up all sorts of intriguing possibilities. Ms. Lerner may not end up in prison, but she may end up in the poor house.

As well as some other stuff we can only imagine.

I like this. I think it may very well be a stroke of genius.


70 posted on 10/26/2017 7:22:24 PM PDT by Egon
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To: ForYourChildren

Don’t forget the 2012 election was also thrown by godzillary, Zero and their minions going on tv telling the American people that Benghazi was the result of a video, knowing the entire time that it was a terrorist attack.


71 posted on 10/26/2017 7:39:11 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: 4Liberty; Man50D; Principled; EternalVigilance; phil_will1; kevkrom; Bigun; PeteB570; FBD; ...

Let me see if I understand this: A federal employee violates the law; the IRS accepts the blame; and THE POOR SUFFERING TAXPAYERS PAY THE FINE?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

LOCK HER UP!

AND LOCK UP THE IRS DIRECTOR AND EVERY IRS EMPLOYEE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS SCHEME!

I AM WELL BEYOND PISSED OFF AT THE IRS, LOIS LERNER AND THE ENTIRE OPHONYBAMA ADMINISTRATION!

LOCKEM ALL UP!

/RANT

There is only ONE “settlement ... [that will] make sure that [that] kind of political targeting never takes place again.”

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72 posted on 10/26/2017 8:45:31 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: 9YearLurker

AND LONG JAIL TERMS!


73 posted on 10/26/2017 8:46:06 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: 4Liberty

So 2012 election fraud. ..downright fraud, using the government’s most feared deoartment to suppress the vote and destroy the ability of Americans to raise money while protecting the party in power’s corrupt sellout of our uranium.


74 posted on 10/26/2017 8:46:46 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: henkster

I call “BS” on “The IRS was going to stonewall the TEA Party applications regardless of who was in the White House.”

Had there been ANY other person in the White House than Ophonybama, TEA Party would have been treated fairly!


75 posted on 10/26/2017 8:48:08 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: 9YearLurker

AND LONG JAIL TERMS!


76 posted on 10/26/2017 8:49:01 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman; All

Thanks for the ping/post. LOCK THESE F”N CRIMINALS UP.


77 posted on 10/26/2017 9:18:23 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: 4Liberty

Why should this administration apologize for something the corrupt obama crew did? Ain’t right.


78 posted on 10/26/2017 10:37:49 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: 4Liberty

Why are the taxpayers responsible. Make the dnc pay.


79 posted on 10/27/2017 3:52:17 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: 4Liberty

Leftists break the law and we get an “apology”. When conservatives are railroaded (Scooter Libby), they get sentenced to prison.


80 posted on 10/27/2017 4:30:43 AM PDT by EODGUY ("If you know how much ammo you own...you don't own enough!")
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