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After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email
As reported by the Associated Press, via US News & World Report, the IRS says that it cannot locate much of the email sent by a former IRS official over a two-year period. "The IRS told Congress Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups." Three congressional committees are investigating the agency because of the allegations of politically motivated mishandling of those applications, as is the Justice Department and the IRS's own inspector general. As the story says, "Congressional investigators have shown that IRS officials in Washington were closely involved in the handling of tea party applications, many of which languished for more than a year without action. But so far, they have not publicly produced evidence that anyone outside the agency directed the targeting or even knew about it." CBS News has a slightly different version, also based on the AP's reporting.
anyone buy that?
Just keep hitting "Check for New Comments" bro..... watch our libtards offer all manner of cockamamy scenarios and rationalizations.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
can be transparent enough when they are black, right?
And here's where Issa's lies show.
Reality shows that the IRS also investigated other terms and groups, including some liberal ones.
Like "Progressive" Medical Marijuana" and "Occupy" among others.
But no, Issa will keep barking like a dog, and you'll believe there's somebody in the hen house while the real story is the burglar at the window.
As long as you don't define "freedom" by the number of guns you can own, yes. Both are more free than the USA, so long as you don't make it a habit to deliberately torment others.
On Slashdot, I remember the large number of posts when an adult targeted a child with a known mental illness and harassed her with the intent of causing her harm, and as a result of that successful harm, the child died (suicide). The overwhelming opinion on slashdot is that murder is ok. So long as you set up an elaborate trap with the intention of killing, but don't pull the trigger yourself.
If you think that you should have the right to harass people literally to death, then yes, you might want to stay in the US, one of the few places that's legal. Though I'd argue that it makes it less civilized, not more.
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When it comes to "non-profits", all I see is a scam. We shouldn't approve any of it. As for the IRS, it should be shut down for the abuses they perpetrate every day. This is pure partisan BS. This so-called "scandal" does not hold a candle to the real abuses of this and past regimes. In fact, I consider it a diversion from those issues. These people are crying over unearned privileges, and they are successfully lumping all dissent with the crazies out there stomping their feet. It only fortifies the things we should be tearing down.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”