The key word here is he learned about that IRS news scandal at the same time as everyone else. The WH was totally insulated in a bubble were everything around bounces back from that force field (maybe developed by The SAIC Force Protection Suite?)
Everything else is what a US president was supposed to say, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xprS6RjLZEw
Topic: IRS APOLOGIZES FOR TARGETING CONSERVATIVE GROUPS - page 4. (Read 2747 times)
Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama's political opponents.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-irs/
The thing with politicians is, when they use an illegal tool against their opponents they will be facing the other side of that evil hammer when they become opponents themselves. They legitimate it.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-irs/
The thing with politicians is, when they use an illegal tool against their opponents they will be facing the other side of that evil hammer when they become opponents themselves. They legitimate it.
Not true, if the media is aligned with a politician, and is silent about those illegal tools, or protests only long after their use, and then weakly, but then if an opponent arises, screams at the least and silliest of transgressions.
To illustrate your point. The reaction of the WaPo, the "Tool" that once helped make a US president resign. Will they just report the facts and move on or are they going to be the pit bull they used to be and never let go of this story? Do not hold your breath.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/12/irs-targeted-groups-that-criticized-the-government-ig-report-says/
Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama's political opponents.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-irs/
The thing with politicians is, when they use an illegal tool against their opponents they will be facing the other side of that evil hammer when they become opponents themselves. They legitimate it.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-irs/
The thing with politicians is, when they use an illegal tool against their opponents they will be facing the other side of that evil hammer when they become opponents themselves. They legitimate it.
Not true, if the media is aligned with a politician, and is silent about those illegal tools, or protests only long after their use, and then weakly, but then if an opponent arises, screams at the least and silliest of transgressions.
Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama's political opponents.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-irs/
The thing with politicians is, when they use an illegal tool against their opponents they will be facing the other side of that evil hammer when they become opponents themselves. They legitimate it.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-irs/
The thing with politicians is, when they use an illegal tool against their opponents they will be facing the other side of that evil hammer when they become opponents themselves. They legitimate it.
I found this link with at least part of the questions asked to the targeted groups. Some of them pretty much impossible to comply (or remember).
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/10-crazy-things-the-irs-asked-tea-party-groups/
Of course, this was not politically motivated and only a low level employee did this. OK maybe 200 were involved but that was it.
"...& absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Let's assume the higher ups were complicit. I believe part of that has already came out, and more will, of course.http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/10-crazy-things-the-irs-asked-tea-party-groups/
Of course, this was not politically motivated and only a low level employee did this. OK maybe 200 were involved but that was it.
"...& absolute power corrupts absolutely."
There's some reason they choose to break this story now. I wonder what it is.
Back to the moral and ethical issues. Apologies don't work, jail time does.
I found this link with at least part of the questions asked to the targeted groups. Some of them pretty much impossible to comply (or remember).
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/10-crazy-things-the-irs-asked-tea-party-groups/
Of course, this was not politically motivated and only a low level employee did this. OK maybe 200 were involved but that was it.
"...& absolute power corrupts absolutely."
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/10-crazy-things-the-irs-asked-tea-party-groups/
Of course, this was not politically motivated and only a low level employee did this. OK maybe 200 were involved but that was it.
"...& absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Welcome to the new normal.
https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/332909283421323264
Nothing will happen to them.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/332903200204128256
https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/332909283421323264
Nothing will happen to them.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/332903200204128256
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Lerner said the practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias.
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In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.
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The forms, which the groups made available at the time, sought information about group members' political activities, including details of their postings on social networking websites and about family members
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In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.
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The forms, which the groups made available at the time, sought information about group members' political activities, including details of their postings on social networking websites and about family members
WTF? How is this NOT politically motivated?
And what was the disposition of the donor lists? Were they forwarded to anyone?
Of course back then the NYT found nothing wrong about this. Not doubt they will update that page anytime now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/opinion/the-irs-does-its-job.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/opinion/the-irs-does-its-job.html?_r=0
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including details of their postings on social networking websites and about family members.
Now why the fuck would you need details about other people in order to file taxes or not pay them at all? I'm glad I don't live in the U.S.
"Lerner said the practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias. After her talk, she told The AP that no high level IRS officials knew about the practice. She did not say when they found out."
Always those damn low level workers... Of course, no names.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-apologizes-targeting-conservative-groups
UPDATE: (May 18, 2013)
The woman whose question prompted a top Internal Revenue Service official to admit the agency was inappropriately targeting conservative groups says she was contacted prior to the event that elicited the admission and was directed to ask the question.
Celia Roady, a prominent tax lawyer in the firm of Morgan Lewis, said she was called personally by Lois Lerner, the IRS head of the tax exempt division, on May 9.
"I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the [American Bar Association] Tax Section's Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks," Roady said in a statement to U.S. News and World Report. "I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question."
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/17/exclusive-woman-who-asked-irss-lois-lerner-scandal-breaking-question-details-plant
UPDATE: (May 21, 2013)
Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.
The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.
Lerner's defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III, wrote to the committee on Tuesday that his client would refuse to answer questions related to what she knew about the extra levels of scrutiny appled to conservative nonprofit organizations that applied for tax-exempt status beginning in 2010.
She also will decline to say why she didn’t disclose what she knew to Congress, according to the LA Times.
Lerner 'has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation,' Taylor's letter read, 'but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328696/Top-IRS-official-invoke-Fifth-Amendment-congressional-hearing-tea-party-targeting-program.html
Always those damn low level workers... Of course, no names.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-apologizes-targeting-conservative-groups
UPDATE: (May 18, 2013)
The woman whose question prompted a top Internal Revenue Service official to admit the agency was inappropriately targeting conservative groups says she was contacted prior to the event that elicited the admission and was directed to ask the question.
Celia Roady, a prominent tax lawyer in the firm of Morgan Lewis, said she was called personally by Lois Lerner, the IRS head of the tax exempt division, on May 9.
"I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the [American Bar Association] Tax Section's Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks," Roady said in a statement to U.S. News and World Report. "I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question."
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/17/exclusive-woman-who-asked-irss-lois-lerner-scandal-breaking-question-details-plant
UPDATE: (May 21, 2013)
Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.
The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.
Lerner's defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III, wrote to the committee on Tuesday that his client would refuse to answer questions related to what she knew about the extra levels of scrutiny appled to conservative nonprofit organizations that applied for tax-exempt status beginning in 2010.
She also will decline to say why she didn’t disclose what she knew to Congress, according to the LA Times.
Lerner 'has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation,' Taylor's letter read, 'but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328696/Top-IRS-official-invoke-Fifth-Amendment-congressional-hearing-tea-party-targeting-program.html
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