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September 12, 2013

Lois Lerner Emails Released
— Ace

People who are still getting paid and have been told there is no threat of prosecution tend to keep their secrets.

So it's no accident that she's getting paid to not work. She's now being paid to shut up, which is what I expect she'll keep doing, as there's now a career in withholding evidence for her.

It appears she targeted the Tea Party in order to create the grounds for a lawsuit to get the Citizens United case reexamined.

Â“Tea Party Matter very dangerous,Â” Ms. Lerner said in the 2011 email, saying that those applications could end up being the Â“vehicle to go to courtÂ” to get more clarity on a 2010 Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance rules.
In another email, from 2012, Ms. Lerner acknowledges that the agencyÂ’s handling of the tax-exempt applications had been bungled at the beginning, though she said they had taken steps to correct it.
Â“It is what it is,Â” she said in the email, released Thursday by the Ways and Means Committee. Â“Although the original story isnÂ’t as pretty as weÂ’d like, once we learned this [sic.] were off track, we have done what we can to change the process, better educate our staff and move the cases. So, we will get dinged, but we took steps before the Â‘dingingÂ’ to make things better and we have written procedures.Â”
That email suggests agency employees knew they had gone overboard in their scrutiny Â— despite top IRS officials telling Congress that there wasnÂ’t any special scrutiny of conservative groups.

Posted by: Ace at 01:02 PM | Comments (82)
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1 Too bad nixon wasn't a couple shades darker.

Posted by: Eton Cox at September 12, 2013 01:03 PM (q177U)

2 So, this reaffirms my belief that Issa is a worthless meatbag.

Posted by: FUBAR at September 12, 2013 01:03 PM (Cs2tJ)

3 She should already have been charged with criminal contempt by Issa and awaiting prosecution in the first circuit.

But like most Republicans Issa is all mouth and no action.

Posted by: Vic at September 12, 2013 01:03 PM (zZbNF)

4 Some good content today, ace. Thanks.

Posted by: Eton Cox at September 12, 2013 01:04 PM (q177U)

5 Although the original story isnÂ’t as pretty as weÂ’d like, once we learned this [sic.] were off track, we have done what we can to change the process, better educate our staff and move the cases. So, we will get dinged, but we took steps before the Â‘dingingÂ’ to make things better and we have written procedures.

Ah, they have procedures. Procedures by which the civil rights of Americans are systematically violated. Never mind, then.

Posted by: pep at September 12, 2013 01:04 PM (6TB1Z)

6 1 Too bad nixon wasn't a couple shades darker. --- I don't think being black would have saved Nixon. The Dems and media were still pissed over him exposing Alger Hiss given the number of high-profile lefties who came out and defended him.

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at September 12, 2013 01:04 PM (/Crba)

7
Also, and very important, they STILL have not moved those T-party applications forward.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 12, 2013 01:04 PM (sj9LN)

8 Well, integrity that actually costs you something is not apparently a requirement for either the Democratic Party or the Federal Government, so what do you expect?

Posted by: Mr. Happy at September 12, 2013 01:05 PM (DvH55)

9 Evil, evil, evil.

Posted by: Jmel at September 12, 2013 01:06 PM (cfFqn)

10 Sent to the cornfield once again.

Posted by: FUBAR at September 12, 2013 01:06 PM (Cs2tJ)

11 This one should already be in prison. Violating the constitutionally protected rights of the citizens should be one of the highest crimes we have. Are we a nation of laws or of men. Who is John Galt?

Posted by: Melvin Frohike at September 12, 2013 01:07 PM (sYLzD)

12 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:07 PM (/PCJa)

13 Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:07 PM (/PCJa)

14 What did that New Mexico judge tell Christians about following rules we don't like? "Price of citizenship" or something?

Of course, we all understand it only works one way right now. Standard for a benevolent dictatorship, apparently standard for America now too.

Posted by: Mr. Happy at September 12, 2013 01:07 PM (DvH55)

15 Imagine what she wrote on the other e-mail account.

Posted by: forest at September 12, 2013 01:07 PM (stMuz)

16 Goodbye, rule of law. It was nice to have... well, heard about you. PS I think the interpretation here is a little generous, her implication this was an overzealous mistake that was rolled back is transparently false - firstly because she's been playing the same game at least as far back as the 90s, and secondly because it hasn't yet stopped. Thus the rule of law is dead, I hope you enjoy the rule of the mob.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:07 PM (qyfb5)

17 Sorry, I'm not seeing what's wrong here.

Posted by: Jay Carney at September 12, 2013 01:08 PM (W2qJe)

You mean the "I did nothing wrong and I'm pleading the Fifth" Lois Learner.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2013 01:08 PM (BAS5M)

19 Also, and very important, they STILL have not moved those T-party applications forward. This. The harassment hasn't stopped. Heads should roll. I'll settle for "figuratively."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:08 PM (/PCJa)

20
Noooooo!!!1 Not my e-mails.

Posted by: Lois the Learned at September 12, 2013 01:08 PM (u6lBN)

21 And by "interpretation here" I mean in the excerpt.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:09 PM (qyfb5)

22 I'll settle for "figuratively." Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 05:08 PM (/PCJa) I haven't decided yet.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:09 PM (qyfb5)

23 Anybody else starting to get a tad pissed off?

Posted by: Melvin Frohike at September 12, 2013 01:09 PM (sYLzD)

24 Noooooooo!!!11! Not my e-mails!

Posted by: The Rev Lisa Jackson at September 12, 2013 01:10 PM (u6lBN)

25 Wtf is Darrell Issa doing? I can't figure it he's doing half measures for appearances sake, or it's just the deadening, slow process in play.

Posted by: L, elle at September 12, 2013 01:11 PM (0PiQ4)

26 So it's no accident that she's getting paid to not work. She's now being paid to shut up, which is what I expect she'll keep doing, as there's now a career in withholding evidence for her. And this- the entrenched bureaucracy- is what we need to fight more than anything with the exception of the MFM (delenda est). The entrenched bureaucracy is worse than the Democrat party. It's worse that Vlad Putin donkey punching our president in front of the world, and then selling the sex-tape. If the bureaucracy does not go, then we are doomed as a nation.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:11 PM (/PCJa)

27 The leftists think they can see the finish line of "Permanent Power," they will not back off they will push forward. Especially since the opposition is tamed.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:11 PM (qyfb5)

Honestly it's getting harder and harder not to start believing in crazy conspiracy theories.

All my previous "crazy" theories like the government spying on my email and the media being completely shamelessly in the tank for the Dems even for poorly-thought-out military adventures are turning out to be true.

If they announce the moon landing really was faked I'm going to have to move to the woods and start making moonshine just to restore my sanity.

Posted by: Austin in TX at September 12, 2013 01:11 PM (GBY9g)

29 And your little dog too!

Posted by: Lois Lerner ("I'm proud of my government service") at September 12, 2013 01:12 PM (YLI2v)

30 A complete and total lack of accountability doesn't herald good things to come.

but of course the GOP has been waving the Reform flag for the past 4 years, right? Because that's the time-tested counter narrative to a corrupt governance. You know, how you beat incumbents.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 12, 2013 01:13 PM (s9AKD)

31 Tea Party Matter very dangerous,Â” Ms. Lerner said in the 2011 email, saying that those applications could end up being the Â“vehicle to go to courtÂ” Fuck this country. Liberals should be rounded up and ground into cattle fodder. FUCK. THIS. COUNTRY.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at September 12, 2013 01:13 PM (IaHFl)

32 "The entrenched bureaucracy is worse than the Democrat party. [] Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 " The bureaucracy is but an arm of the Democrat party. The Democrat party is but as arm of the state. In many ways the Republican party is effectively just an arm of the Democrat party by now. It's all state, all the time. And they like it that way.

Posted by: Melvin Frohike at September 12, 2013 01:13 PM (sYLzD)

see. this is the counterpoint to Ace's hope and change GOP post today.

The mechanics. The wedges.

If ANY republican pulled this off, there'd be a special prosecutor a year ago.

But the opposite is not true. The GOP is like Panda bears that won't even fuck to save their species.

Posted by: joeindc44 at September 12, 2013 01:13 PM (+8fYi)

34 Lois Lerner ("I'm proud of my government service") Odd the things that strike you. I bet she is proud of her government service. I expect she served the government very well. Indeed, I bet her "government service" was superlative. I bet she has never in her life performed Civic Service or served the People.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:14 PM (/PCJa)

35 You suggest there is something wrong with getting paid not to work. As if.

Posted by: Union auto workers in the jobs bank at September 12, 2013 01:14 PM (Q9qpj)

36 Can we have a happy, fun post next? Please?

Posted by: L, elle at September 12, 2013 01:14 PM (0PiQ4)

37 She should be donkey punched just for saying ' it is what it is '

Posted by: polynikes at September 12, 2013 01:14 PM (m2CN7)

38 Nooooooo!!11!1!11! Not my Blackberry Records.!

Posted by: Bronco Brahma at September 12, 2013 01:15 PM (u6lBN)

39 She should be donkey punched just for saying ' it is what it is ' You go first.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:15 PM (/PCJa)

40 Can we have a happy, fun post next? Please? Posted by: L, elle at September 12, 2013 05:14 PM (0PiQ4) Next up: The Killing Fields, a retrospectacle - AND WARNING!

<- sardonic laugh

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:17 PM (qyfb5)

41 Remember that they have already tried to spin this with Tea Party being a generic description for new political action groups.

We're all Tea Partiers now, or something.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 12, 2013 01:17 PM (ccXZP)

42 I thought it was just a few bad ~~apples~~ cornholers in Cincinnati?

Posted by: garrett at September 12, 2013 01:17 PM (+67IW)

43 There are not enough jail cells to send these criminals to. How about obie fulfilling his pledge top close Gitmo then we can ship these crooks to Cuuba..

Posted by: Bufalobob at September 12, 2013 01:17 PM (HVvi2)

44 You want a happy fun post? My new kitten looks like a midget fruit bat.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 12, 2013 01:18 PM (ZshNr)

45 SQUASH!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 12, 2013 01:19 PM (s9AKD)

46 How about obie fulfilling his pledge top close Gitmo then we can ship these crooks to Cuuba.. But only if they can swim there.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 12, 2013 01:19 PM (/PCJa)

47 The IRS would have fired Voltaire. "Defend to the death" indeed....

Posted by: Mr. Happy at September 12, 2013 01:19 PM (DvH55)

48 Stuff like this is why lefties are so big into conspiracies. Because they think and act like this, and would participate in a conspiracy if it was for something they believed in.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 12, 2013 01:20 PM (4/o9U)

You want a happy fun post? My new kitten looks like a midget fruit bat.

Pics? I need a kitteh about now.

Posted by: Infidel at September 12, 2013 01:20 PM (O/fK8)

50 Remember Blackwater? Remember waterboarding and torture? The Left knows how to play politics.

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 12, 2013 01:20 PM (TmVGe)

51 You want a happy fun post? My new kitten looks like a midget fruit bat. Posted by: Lincolntf at September 12, 2013 05:18 PM (ZshNr) At the risk of sounding like some kind of squeeeing beta male, I think fruit bats are adorable. They look kind of like kit foxes. Except with big leathery wings.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:20 PM (qyfb5)

52 They do have a unique look to them. I'll get some pics posted somewhere soon.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 12, 2013 01:21 PM (ZshNr)

53 Because they think and act like this, and would participate in a conspiracy if it was for something they believed in. Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 12, 2013 05:20 PM (4/o9U) "Would?" The Long March isn't two guys in Poughkeepsie. It's a Cultural Phenomenon on the left.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:22 PM (qyfb5)

54 I'll be right on this outrageous violation. My friends, these transgressions usurp... hey! Look at that! A straight flush!

Posted by: Juan McPain at September 12, 2013 01:22 PM (eHIJJ)

55 The Left even had TV shows such as Law and Order help make sure their memes and lies permeated every Dummy's skull.

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 12, 2013 01:23 PM (TmVGe)

56 "Wtf is Darrell Issa doing?" Keep all the issues going for the 2014 election, get control of the Senate, get rid of Holder and then go after Lerner et al.

Posted by: Decaf at September 12, 2013 01:23 PM (ccrlk)

57 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at September 12, 2013 05:22 PM (qyfb5) Oh, I know they do it. I was talking about the lefties that haven't had a chance to start yet.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 12, 2013 01:24 PM (4/o9U)

Liberals should be rounded up and ground into cattle fodder.

FUCK. THIS. BURAUCRACY!!!11!

FIFY!

Posted by: Bronco Brahma at September 12, 2013 01:24 PM (u6lBN)

59 There's a thin line between happy and hateful. A thin line.

Posted by: adams Civil Service Pamphlet porn at September 12, 2013 01:24 PM (gQKHE)

60 http://bit.ly/Ub07ob Fruit bats.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:25 PM (qyfb5)

fuckking special prosecutor.

I don't understand, a more open and shut case could not exist.

That's the things about the liberal pathology, they brag about their crimes.

Posted by: joeindc44 at September 12, 2013 01:26 PM (+8fYi)

62 55 "Wtf is Darrell Issa doing?"

Keep all the issues going for the 2014 election, get control of the Senate, get rid of Holder and then go after Lerner et al.

Issa pulled that stunt with FnF.

Posted by: 13times at September 12, 2013 01:27 PM (fGPLK)

63 Remember all those joke job interviews where the applicant says they want to make a difference. Well, now we know what sort of difference they had in mind. And the joke is on us.

Posted by: Decaf at September 12, 2013 01:28 PM (ccrlk)

64 Lois Lerner should move to the 6' X 9' closet of her McMansion in preparation for her future. Those who do not learn from history are destined to annoy the shit out of me. Minutes until she is thrown under the bus? 3,2,1...

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 12, 2013 01:28 PM (U2UQk)

65 Ace, maybe you should start doing music video reviews as a compliment to your movie reviews. Miley has a new one out aptly named Wrecking Ball and, bonus or Not, she is barely clothed.

Posted by: L, elle at September 12, 2013 01:29 PM (0PiQ4)

66 Justice is not only blind, she's handcuffed to a railing in an abandoned office building.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:32 PM (qyfb5)

67 "Minutes until she is thrown under the bus? 3,2,1..." Hardly, she helped deliver the 2012 election and is a valuable general in the progressive army. Harry Reid will not allow anything bad to happen to her.

Posted by: Decaf at September 12, 2013 01:33 PM (ccrlk)

The tea party needs to advertise the rinos they've already primaried out and take a few (make that a lot) extra each cycle to serve as ongoing examples. Pretty soon even people like McCain and Graham will be cutting taxes and protecting the border. Like Graham, he had his chance, he's ripe and will make a nice splash.

Posted by: dirks strewn at September 12, 2013 01:34 PM (n+DCP)

69 65 With a ball gag.Don't forget the ball gag.

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2013 01:34 PM (9XBK2)

70 Harry Reid will not allow anything bad to happen to her. Don't worry Lois, the 'youth movement' of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, 65 and Joe Biden, 70, and Harry Reid, 70 will take care of you. Hahaha. #YourFucked

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 12, 2013 01:37 PM (U2UQk)

71 Keep all the issues going for the 2014 election, get control of the Senate, get rid of Holder and then go after Lerner et al. Issa pulled that stunt with FnF. What stunt?

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2013 01:37 PM (yETln)

72 Lady Justice was just asking for it, always carrying those coke scales. An upperclass party girl through and through.

Posted by: adams conscience porn at September 12, 2013 01:39 PM (gQKHE)

73 At the risk of sounding like some kind of squeeeing beta male, I think fruit bats are adorable.

They look kind of like kit foxes.

Except with big leathery wings. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile

Yeah, you try having those ugly little suckers gnawing on you. Well, we're going to start fighting back. Fight the pteropine bastards!

Posted by: Mango of destiny at September 12, 2013 01:41 PM (6TB1Z)

74 Liberals should be rounded up and ground into cattle fodder. FUCK. THIS. BURAUCRACY!!!11! FIFY! Posted by: Bronco Brahma at September 12, 2013 05:24 PM (u6lBN) True, where I erred was country. It's a fucking Banana Republic. I am going to have to stop commenting for right now. I am going to get in trouble with big brother, if I don't.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at September 12, 2013 01:42 PM (IaHFl)

75 Issa pulled that stunt with FnF. What stunt? Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2013 05:37 PM (yETln) Talking about playing the long game and keeping it an issue until elections, then dropping it when no one was looking. I can't speak as to what Issa is *thinking*, but the appearances are not good.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:43 PM (qyfb5)

76 If anyone is on the AosHQ Facebook site, I think I just posted a pic of new kitteh, looking fruit battish.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 12, 2013 01:44 PM (ZshNr)

77 I can't even find the HQ FB searching for it. FB has a generic info page on Ace all the searches lead to.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 12, 2013 01:51 PM (qyfb5)

78 There's an opening here. I've heard she's asked for a house in the Bahamas, in addition to getting paid while not being prosecuted on her long term vacation. The administration countered with a two week rental at Bethany Beach. It's my belief she will fess up, if Issa (who's richer than sin anyway) will only top the offer currently on the table.

Posted by: MTF at September 12, 2013 02:01 PM (qf2kI)

79 Lincolntf------Congrats on the new kitteh!! Saw your post this morning. Every pet is tough to lose!

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at September 12, 2013 02:24 PM (u6lBN)

80 Nothing here, America, Lois Lerner did nothing wrong and furthermore...look...over there...is that Miley Cyrus twerking again?

Posted by: Funeral guy at September 12, 2013 02:30 PM (oM3dg)

81 Lois Lerner was appointed by Bush in 2008 DON"T THROW HER UNDER THE BUS

Posted by: occam at September 12, 2013 02:37 PM (Icp1T)

82 occam is a troll what likes to suck cock.

Posted by: occam's mom at September 12, 2013 02:43 PM (Q9qpj)

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