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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Mon Sep 23, 2013, 03:23 PM Sep 2013

IRS's Lerner Retires Amid Scrutiny of Tea Party Cases

Source: Bloomberg News

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official investigated by Congress over the agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups, has retired effective today, the agency said in a statement.

Lerner, the tax agency’s former director of exempt organizations, was placed on paid administrative leave earlier this year. Last week, acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told a congressional paneal that Lerner was “technically still employed.”

The agency declined further comment, citing privacy concerns.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/irs-lois-lerner-at-center-of-controversy-said-to-retire.html

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IRS's Lerner Retires Amid Scrutiny of Tea Party Cases (Original Post) PoliticAverse Sep 2013 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2013 #1
her (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2013 #2
No, Obama is a him. AngryAmish Sep 2013 #3
Obama is getting rid of....Obama? Skittles Sep 2013 #6
Yes. She is. (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2013 #7
those teabagging bastards SHOULD be scrutinized Skittles Sep 2013 #5
This was a very curious episode at the height of the republican scandal mongering Clyde Tenson Sep 2013 #4
Hopefully she will now be more forthcoming marshall Sep 2013 #8

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Clyde Tenson

(65 posts)
4. This was a very curious episode at the height of the republican scandal mongering
Mon Sep 23, 2013, 04:17 PM
Sep 2013

Here's a high ranking (Republican) IRS official responding to an admitted planted question regarding whether the IRS was targeting 501(c)(4) applications from tea party organizations:

“Instead of referring to the cases as advocacy cases, they actually used case names on this list,” Lerner said, according to a transcript of the meeting. “They used names like Tea Party or Patriots and they selected cases simply because the applications had those names in the title. That was wrong, that was absolutely incorrect, insensitive, and inappropriate — that’s not how we go about selecting cases for further review.”

So she blows the whistle on "Obama's IRS" targeting the yahoos. Neglecting to mention that this keyword targeting was being applied to both sides of the political spectrum. Swell.

Then gets hauled up before a congressional hearing and refuses to answer questions.

Tell us Lois...what is it that you know that we don't?

marshall

(6,665 posts)
8. Hopefully she will now be more forthcoming
Mon Sep 23, 2013, 08:43 PM
Sep 2013

They need to offer her immunity so that she no longer needs to fear self incrimination. Then we might learn whatever it is that she is hiding, if anything.

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