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

We do not want a patsy. We want the chain of command. The ones that gave the orders.

Threaten her with life in prison or worse and watch her role on the higher ups.

We are going to need a DOJ with a backbone not a set of ears

81 posted on 10/27/2017 4:32:48 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: 9YearLurker
I don’t want apologies—I want prosecutions.

HUGE DITTOS!!!!!!

82 posted on 10/27/2017 7:15:35 AM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: PGalt

You are most welcome.

I find it hard to believe that Lois Lerner is not going to be prosecuted.

Her non-prosecution sends the wrong signal!


83 posted on 10/27/2017 7:34:48 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Positioning. One aspect is that the evil bastards have now been positioned as evil, even if not prosecuted. Our battle against evil is multi-pronged. Perception, as much as you and I may scoff at it, is part of the battle.


84 posted on 10/27/2017 8:29:37 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: 4Liberty

Sessions - some weeks ago ago, announced that he will NOT prosecute Lerner -

DUMP SESSIONS, d*mn it all....


85 posted on 10/27/2017 8:32:49 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: JimSp

Milquetoast reply—are you a GOPe by nature and tradition?


86 posted on 10/27/2017 8:34:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

No. GOPe is the wolf in the tattered rags sheeps clothing. I’m sorry my brief and hurried response left you thinking otherwise. I’ll message you additional thoughts.


87 posted on 10/27/2017 10:36:50 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: 4Liberty

Quiet Zone.

Please remain quiet so as to not awaken the DOJ.

Thank You.


88 posted on 10/27/2017 11:19:17 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: elcid1970
Proof that GOPe is in total cahoots with the Dems. Six years in the majority under Obama and...nothing.

I moment I found out about the CFR, I knew that. When you have Republican Presidents with their minions and Democrat Presidents with their minions, along with Senators, Congressmen, Captains of Business and Academia par excellence, as members of the Council on Foreign Relations, you know that there must be collusion on a global scale.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Founded in 1921, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.
And this just in:

Experts in Energy and Climate Change, Russia, and Gender and Human Rights Join CFR August 09, 2017

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes three fellows, Amy Myers Jaffe, James Goldgeier, and Caroline Bettinger-López, to its David Rockefeller Studies Program. “The diverse knowledge areas of Amy, Jim, and Caroline are a reflection of the Council’s growing range and depth of expertise,” said CFR President Richard N. Haass. Amy Myers Jaffe joins as the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change.

James M. Goldgeier will join CFR as a visiting senior fellow. A former director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council in the Bill Clinton administration and a former CFR Whitney H. Shepardson senior fellow, Goldgeier will conduct a roundtable series on Europe and Russia. He will research and write on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and U.S.-Russia relations.

Caroline Bettinger-López joins CFR as an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy. She will research domestic and global responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, child marriage, and other forms of violence against women.

David Rockefeller had a lifelong association with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) when he joined as a director in 1949.[32] In 1965, Rockefeller and other businessmen formed the Council of the Americas to stimulate and support economic integration in the Americas. In 1992, at a Council sponsored forum, Rockefeller proposed a "Western Hemisphere free trade area", which subsequently became the Free Trade Area of the Americas in a Miami summit in 1994. His and the Council's chief liaison to President Bill Clinton in order to garner support for this initiative was through Clinton's chief of staff, Mack McLarty, whose consultancy firm Kissinger McLarty Associates is a corporate member of the Council, while McLarty himself is on the board of directors.[33]

Displeased with the refusal of Bilderberg Group meetings to include Japan, Rockefeller helped found the Trilateral Commission in July 1973.[34]


89 posted on 10/27/2017 5:16:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: 4Liberty

I am sick and tired of what appears to be two sets of laws in our republic. There should be at least three people and possibly more indicted for these crimes committed against those tea party organizations. What is the problem here? The IRS has admitted criminal behavior, why aren’t those responsible indicted. Why is it the taxpayers place to pay the penalty for law breakers in the IRS? Where are the indictments, Sessions?


90 posted on 10/28/2017 6:12:54 PM PDT by The Truth The Way And The Life (Where are the indictments?)
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To: 4Liberty
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.

Good, that's progress, or would be if they intended to comply with the settlement, which I'm sure they do not. However, what happened to her? Is she fined hundreds of thousands? Is she in prison? Is prosecution moving forward? If not, all this is pointless.

91 posted on 10/30/2017 10:06:03 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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