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We now know that Lois Lerner, the Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service - who refused to testify before a House committee by invoking the Fifth Amendment - has a paper trail that reveals her direct involvement in sending intrusive and harassing questionnaires to Tea Party groups in 2012.
Consider the timeline. We now know through her own testimony and from the Inspector General's report that Lerner was briefed about this unlawful targeting scheme in June 2011. But nine months later, beginning in March 2012, she sent cover letters to many of our clients - demanding additional information and forwarding intrusive questionnaires. In fact, in March and April of 2012, Lerner sent 15 letters to 15 different clients (including those who were approved after lengthy delays and those who are still pending).
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
I don't know much about this and she probably is guilty by way of '' top of the ladder '' concepts.
but in offices, signatures like that are merely a mouse click away for an assistant, or setup in templates.
If your implying she signed the document with a pen in her hand there's a good chance she didn't.
its an automatic feature in Microsoft Office!
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
I don't know much about this and she probably is guilty by way of '' top of the ladder '' concepts.
but in offices, signatures like that are merely a mouse click away for an assistant, or setup in templates.
If your implying she signed the document with a pen in her hand there's a good chance she didn't.
its an automatic feature in Microsoft Office!
Originally posted by MountainLaurel
should be willing to submit to a lie detector test on demand,
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by beezzer
I get your metaphor perhaps much better than many do. I'm not seeing it's application here though. In 2010 baskets full of Super-Pacs and Citizens for this, that, and the other popped up in unprecedented numbers... many applied for 501(c)(4) status and many were denied and/or scrutinized... I'm just not seeing anything out of the ordinary here, I think the ratio is simply explained by the fact that not only was it a presidential election year but every seat in the House was up for grabs... and Democrats had the Executive, had Republicans had the Executive I would expect the ratio to be flip flopped. That's just how I see it. Not to worry though, all the people that throw money into politics have figured out Donors Trusts. I doubt we'll see that many applying for 501c4 ever again.edit on 27-5-2013 by Kali74 because: (no reason given)
And did you actually read the letter?
Did you notice that this was a continuation of the never ending requests for intrusive information that must be sent in two weeks time?
And then after this, the groups would experience a long period of silence from the IRS. This long period could be a year or more.
What they couldn't figure out that they were eligible after the first month or so like they treated liberal groups?
Are you saying that crooks are reserved to conservatives only?
The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure after admitting it targeted anti-tax Tea Party groups for scrutiny in recent years, also had its eye on at least three Democratic-leaning organizations seeking nonprofit status.
One of those groups, Emerge America, saw its tax-exempt status denied, forcing it to disclose its donors and pay some taxes. None of the Republican groups have said their applications were rejected.
Progress Texas, another of the organizations, faced the same lines of questioning as the Tea Party groups from the same IRS office that issued letters to the Republican-friendly applicants. A third group, Clean Elections Texas, which supports public funding of campaigns, also received IRS inquiries.
This doesn’t get the IRS off the hook, however. Legal experts tend to agree that the IRS should carefully scrutinize all would-be 501(c)(4)s that tread the line between “social welfare” and politics. But, they add, it’s important for the IRS to stay neutral and not appear like it’s putting an unfair focus on certain political views. That’s why the IRS Cincinnati office’s push to flag all Tea Party groups for review was deemed “inappropriate.”