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What's remarkable about the inane 'investigation' is that it is exactly what the Framers envisioned when they codified the 5th Amendment.[C]ongressional investigators have produced no evidence that anyone outside the IRS - including at the White House - directed the targeting or even knew about it.
Lois Lerner called Republicans "crazies" in email - CBS News
You know what, Joe? There are people doing time in Federal prison as we speak that were convicted of tax evasion on far less "Evidence" than what has been presented so far against Lois Lerner. What I have is "circumstantial evidence". Put circumstantial evidence together and you have "corroborating evidence". It's circumstantial evidence that 7 people's hard drives crashed after Dave Camp's letter arrived at the IRS. It's additional circumstantial evidence that none of the 7 people who suffered a hard drive crash did the logical thing and have their data recovered from the back up tape designed specifically for that purpose. It's additional circumstantial evidence that the IRS allowed those back up tapes to be scrubbed even though Congress had demanded to see them in a subpoena. It's additional circumstantial evidence that the Head of the IRS failed to tell Congress that those back up tapes had been scrubbed and the data there lost. Put all of the circumstantial evidence together and it becomes corroborating evidence.
You mistakenly believe that because direct evidence (like the missing emails) hasn't been produced that there is no case to bring charges on.
Let me give you an example. A witness sees a man steal a woman's purse and run away. That's direct evidence of a crime taking place. Now let's say that same witness sees a woman walk into an alley carrying a white purse, followed by a man carrying nothing...that same witness then hears a woman's scream and sees the man run out of the alley carrying a white purse. From what he's seen he infers that a crime has taken place and calls the police. Nothing that witness has seen is direct proof that a crime was committed by the man who followed that woman into the alley but the different types of circumstantial evidence combine to make a strong case of corroborating evidence and there is a very good chance that the man accused of mugging the woman and stealing her purse would go to prison JUST on circumstantial evidence.
You have no 'evidence' at all, that's what you fail to understand.
That you hate Obama is not 'evidence.'
What's remarkable about the inane 'investigation' is that it is exactly what the Framers envisioned when they codified the 5th Amendment.[C]ongressional investigators have produced no evidence that anyone outside the IRS - including at the White House - directed the targeting or even knew about it.
Lois Lerner called Republicans "crazies" in email - CBS News
In this case partisan republicans frustrated with their failure to 'get rid of Obama' taking that frustration out on Lerner in a pathetic attempt to 'justify' this waste of time and taxpayers' money, when time and resources could be better spent on matters of actual import.
Everything that Lerner did can be explained as due diligence in supporting a bad Supreme Court decision? Really, Joe? That's laughable. Everything that Lerner did was an end run around the Supreme Court decision because she didn't like it. To be quite blunt with you...THAT'S NOT HER CALL!!! If she doesn't like the Citizen's United outcome, that doesn't give her the right to target conservative groups for unfair scrutiny. That doesn't give her the right to treat liberal groups in one fashion and conservatives in another! And that especially doesn't give her the right to release the confidential tax information of conservatives to liberal groups or other Federal agencies!
If Lerner had set up a protocol for questions and scrutiny of organizations applying for exempt status and had followed that protocol for ALL the groups that applied...she'd be fine. She didn't DO that though...Lois Lerner had two standards...two sets of protocols to deal with applicants. One set for liberal groups. One set for conservative groups.
That is the reason that Lois Lerner took the 5th. She knows full well that she DID violate the rights of those conservative groups! That's what this is all about. It's whether a small group of Federal employees at the IRS (or another Federal agency like the EPA or the Justice Department) can use the power of their positions to target political opponents. It's whether we have a rule of law...or have laws that are subject to the whims of unelected officials.
What's remarkable about the inane 'investigation' is that it is exactly what the Framers envisioned when they codified the 5th Amendment.[C]ongressional investigators have produced no evidence that anyone outside the IRS - including at the White House - directed the targeting or even knew about it.
Lois Lerner called Republicans "crazies" in email - CBS News
In this case partisan republicans frustrated with their failure to 'get rid of Obama' taking that frustration out on Lerner in a pathetic attempt to 'justify' this waste of time and taxpayers' money, when time and resources could be better spent on matters of actual import.
I'm going to guess, Clayton that the Founding Fathers weren't trying to protect Government officials from being held responsible for their illegal actions when they framed the 5th Amendment. They were doing their level best to protect the average citizen from an overzealous government. I would imagine that the FF's would look upon Lois Lerner with a great deal of disgust.
WASHINGTON (AP) A former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party controversy called conservative Republicans "crazies" and more in emails released Wednesday.
Lois Lerner headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status. In a series of emails with a colleague in November 2012, Lerner made two disparaging remarks about members of the GOP, including one remark that was profane.
Rep. Dave Camp, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, released the emails Wednesday as part of his committee's investigation. The Michigan Republican says the emails show Lerner's "disgust with conservatives."
In one email, Lerner called members of the GOP crazies. In the other, she called them "assholes." The committee redacted the wording to "_holes" in the material it released publicly but a committee spokeswoman confirmed to the AP that the email said "assholes."
More: Lois Lerner Criticized GOP As 'Crazies,' 'Assholes' In Emails
Thank you, Lois Lerner. The rest of the link is also worth reading. It's funny - and TRUE.
WASHINGTON (AP) A former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party controversy called conservative Republicans "crazies" and more in emails released Wednesday.
Lois Lerner headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status. In a series of emails with a colleague in November 2012, Lerner made two disparaging remarks about members of the GOP, including one remark that was profane.
Rep. Dave Camp, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, released the emails Wednesday as part of his committee's investigation. The Michigan Republican says the emails show Lerner's "disgust with conservatives."
In one email, Lerner called members of the GOP crazies. In the other, she called them "assholes." The committee redacted the wording to "_holes" in the material it released publicly but a committee spokeswoman confirmed to the AP that the email said "assholes."
More: Lois Lerner Criticized GOP As 'Crazies,' 'Assholes' In Emails
Thank you, Lois Lerner. The rest of the link is also worth reading. It's funny - and TRUE.
Thanks for pointing this out Lakota. It gives us even more ammunition in pointing out that Lerner had it in for Republicans, and especially Tea Party Republicans.
Good work !
Every Tea Partier Ever said:BAWWWW, RESPECT MUH FREE SPEECH
Well, according to JoeB...having the word Patriot in the name of your organization means that you intend to defraud the US government! Who knew?
Well, according to JoeB...having the word Patriot in the name of your organization means that you intend to defraud the US government! Who knew?
Actually, no one really did know - until the teabagger assholes came along. Now, the word "Patriot" is a dirty word. It's enough to gag a maggot.
Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock
Republicans this week released e-mails showing that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner expressed scorn for conservatives in an e-mail to an unidentified recipient — the name was redacted.
Lerner’s remarks would be troubling if she sent them to another IRS official, but it ends up that she was communicating with her husband, Michael Miles, according to unredacted copies of the exchange that Democrats leaked on Friday.
To review, Lerner used the term “__hole” to describe extreme conservatives after Miles complained about “the whacko wing of the GOP,” adding that “right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.”
This goes back to our point in an earlier article that federal employees are not prohibited from having political views or expressing them in private conversations. They just can’t promote candidates at work or use their positions to influence elections.
It’s worth noting, as MSNBC did in an article on Friday, that Republicans have used some harsh language as well to describe the party’s hardliners. Readers may remember that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) an “__hole” earlier this year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) referred to critics on the far-right as “crazies.”
More: Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock - The Washington Post
A private email to her husband. Where's the crime in that? Hint: There ain't none.
Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock
Republicans this week released e-mails showing that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner expressed scorn for conservatives in an e-mail to an unidentified recipient the name was redacted.
Lerners remarks would be troubling if she sent them to another IRS official, but it ends up that she was communicating with her husband, Michael Miles, according to unredacted copies of the exchange that Democrats leaked on Friday.
To review, Lerner used the term __hole to describe extreme conservatives after Miles complained about the whacko wing of the GOP, adding that right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.
This goes back to our point in an earlier article that federal employees are not prohibited from having political views or expressing them in private conversations. They just cant promote candidates at work or use their positions to influence elections.
Its worth noting, as MSNBC did in an article on Friday, that Republicans have used some harsh language as well to describe the partys hardliners. Readers may remember that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) an __hole earlier this year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) referred to critics on the far-right as crazies.
More: Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock - The Washington Post
A private email to her husband. Where's the crime in that? Hint: There ain't none.
No one ever said that was a crime.
It just showed her partisan bias.
Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock
Republicans this week released e-mails showing that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner expressed scorn for conservatives in an e-mail to an unidentified recipient the name was redacted.
Lerners remarks would be troubling if she sent them to another IRS official, but it ends up that she was communicating with her husband, Michael Miles, according to unredacted copies of the exchange that Democrats leaked on Friday.
To review, Lerner used the term __hole to describe extreme conservatives after Miles complained about the whacko wing of the GOP, adding that right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.
This goes back to our point in an earlier article that federal employees are not prohibited from having political views or expressing them in private conversations. They just cant promote candidates at work or use their positions to influence elections.
Its worth noting, as MSNBC did in an article on Friday, that Republicans have used some harsh language as well to describe the partys hardliners. Readers may remember that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) an __hole earlier this year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) referred to critics on the far-right as crazies.
More: Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock - The Washington Post
A private email to her husband. Where's the crime in that? Hint: There ain't none.
No one ever said that was a crime.
It just showed her partisan bias.
What about the bias in the last paragraph?
Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock
Republicans this week released e-mails showing that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner expressed scorn for conservatives in an e-mail to an unidentified recipient the name was redacted.
Lerners remarks would be troubling if she sent them to another IRS official, but it ends up that she was communicating with her husband, Michael Miles, according to unredacted copies of the exchange that Democrats leaked on Friday.
To review, Lerner used the term __hole to describe extreme conservatives after Miles complained about the whacko wing of the GOP, adding that right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.
This goes back to our point in an earlier article that federal employees are not prohibited from having political views or expressing them in private conversations. They just cant promote candidates at work or use their positions to influence elections.
Its worth noting, as MSNBC did in an article on Friday, that Republicans have used some harsh language as well to describe the partys hardliners. Readers may remember that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) an __hole earlier this year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) referred to critics on the far-right as crazies.
More: Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock - The Washington Post
A private email to her husband. Where's the crime in that? Hint: There ain't none.
No one ever said that was a crime.
It just showed her partisan bias.
What about the bias in the last paragraph?
Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock
Republicans this week released e-mails showing that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner expressed scorn for conservatives in an e-mail to an unidentified recipient the name was redacted.
Lerners remarks would be troubling if she sent them to another IRS official, but it ends up that she was communicating with her husband, Michael Miles, according to unredacted copies of the exchange that Democrats leaked on Friday.
To review, Lerner used the term __hole to describe extreme conservatives after Miles complained about the whacko wing of the GOP, adding that right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.
This goes back to our point in an earlier article that federal employees are not prohibited from having political views or expressing them in private conversations. They just cant promote candidates at work or use their positions to influence elections.
Its worth noting, as MSNBC did in an article on Friday, that Republicans have used some harsh language as well to describe the partys hardliners. Readers may remember that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) an __hole earlier this year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) referred to critics on the far-right as crazies.
More: Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock - The Washington Post
A private email to her husband. Where's the crime in that? Hint: There ain't none.
Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock
Republicans this week released e-mails showing that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner expressed scorn for conservatives in an e-mail to an unidentified recipient the name was redacted.
Lerners remarks would be troubling if she sent them to another IRS official, but it ends up that she was communicating with her husband, Michael Miles, according to unredacted copies of the exchange that Democrats leaked on Friday.
To review, Lerner used the term __hole to describe extreme conservatives after Miles complained about the whacko wing of the GOP, adding that right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.
This goes back to our point in an earlier article that federal employees are not prohibited from having political views or expressing them in private conversations. They just cant promote candidates at work or use their positions to influence elections.
Its worth noting, as MSNBC did in an article on Friday, that Republicans have used some harsh language as well to describe the partys hardliners. Readers may remember that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) an __hole earlier this year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) referred to critics on the far-right as crazies.
More: Ends up Lois Lerner was e-mailing her husband with the conservative knock - The Washington Post
A private email to her husband. Where's the crime in that? Hint: There ain't none.
No one ever said that was a crime.
It just showed her partisan bias.
What about the bias in the last paragraph?
Well, according to JoeB...having the word Patriot in the name of your organization means that you intend to defraud the US government! Who knew?
