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MohRokTah

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:10 PM Jun 2014

Issa casts a wide net in IRS fishing expedition, subpoenas 28 years of Lerner's records

Oversight Chair Darrell Issa subpoenas 28 years of records
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CNN Capitol Hill reporter Lisa Desjardins

Washington (CNN) - Expanding his IRS investigation by more than two decades, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-California, has sent a subpoena to the Federal Elections Commission for all communications involving former IRS administrator Lois Lerner from January 1, 1986 to the present day.

This new search is the broadest-yet for records in a year-long investigation by Issa and congressional Republicans, who are trying to assess why the agency targeted tea party and other political groups for extra scrutiny.

Issa issued the subpoena to Lee Goodman, head of the Federal Election Commission, on Tuesday for communications involving Lerner, who is seen as a central figure in the controversy because she ran the division that executed the targeting.

She resigned last year after the Treasury Department’s inspector general found those working under her used “inappropriate” criteria to scrutinize certain groups. Since then, Lerner has refused to testify before Congress, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This has added to the Republican push to find any documents related to Lerner and her time in government.
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So now looking at what Lerner did at the FEC is somehow related to her work at the IRS?

Issa is becoming increasingly desperate to uncover broken laws, ANY broken laws. He's going further against Lerner than they did against Clinton in the 90s!
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Issa casts a wide net in IRS fishing expedition, subpoenas 28 years of Lerner's records (Original Post) MohRokTah Jun 2014 OP
He's insane and he is an ass. Lived in his CD for six long years. n/t livetohike Jun 2014 #1
I'm sure there's a statute of limitations that handles most of the 28 years warrior1 Jun 2014 #2
I say, load up a few trailers with files and dump them all on his front lawn. LLD Jun 2014 #3
 

LLD

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3. I say, load up a few trailers with files and dump them all on his front lawn.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 08:24 PM
Jun 2014
Lets get them trailers loaded!
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