LAWMAKER THREATENS EX-IRS OFFICIAL WITH CONTEMPT
This website had some initial trepidation regarding U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.). We weren’t sure at first whether the Upstate South Carolina prosecutor would become a reliable free market vote … or another in a long line of Bible Thumping status quo backers like former Rep. Bob Inglis.
Since his election in 2010, though, Gowdy has not only met – but exceeded our expectations. With one or two rare exceptions, he’s earned consistently high marks for his votes in defense of freedom and free markets – joining U.S. Reps. Jeff Duncan and Mick Mulvaney (also elected in 2010) as a reliable limited government backer.
This week, Gowdy impressed us again by adopting a hard line stance against former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner – who is seeking immunity from prosecution in the scandal Barack Obama’s administration seems hellbent on ignoring.
Lerner infamously pleaded the Fifth Amendment last year in response to questions about the agency’s shameful (and illegal) discrimination against limited government groups.
“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” Lerner’s attorney said at the time.
Next week, Lerner is scheduled to appear before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform – where Gowdy is waiting in full prosecutorial mode.
“We’re going to have to evaluate whether or not to hold her in contempt of Congress which could include a visit from the Capitol Police – and being incarcerated,” Gowdy said during an appearance on Fox News.
Wow …
Gowdy was also adamant Lerner would not be exempted from prosecution for her role in the scandal.
“We’re never giving her immunity,” he said, emphatically. “We’re not giving her immunity. Period. Why would you give someone immunity when you have no idea what criminal conduct they’ve engaged in?”
Exactly …
According to Gowdy, Lerner’s lawyer needs to “do what he should have done months ago” and provide House investigators with a document indicating what she would say if she were compelled to testify. That document couldn’t be used against her legally – or in the court of opinion – but would enable investigators to determine what concessions they would be willing to offer in exchange for her testimony.
Gowdy said Lerner’s desire for immunity strongly suggested “she’s guilty” – and added that he prefers to approach her as a “defendant” rather than a witness.
Of course Congress can’t prosecute her, only the U.S. Department of Justice can do that.
“I hope the Department of Justice at some point takes this investigation seriously,” Gowdy said. “As you know I can’t prosecute Lois Lerner. I can’t indict her, I can’t put her in prison. Only the executive branch can do that.”
“They won’t do their job so we’re going to have to do it for them,” Gowdy added, saying that he believes Lerner “connects this scandal all the way to Washington.”
We agree …
Of all the scandals hanging over the Obama administration, its use of the IRS to silence political opposition in advance of the 2012 election – and the subsequent coverup of the scandal – is by far the most egregious. That’s why Obama is doing his best to sweep it under the rug.
Props to Gowdy for not letting him get away with it …
Also props to NetRightDaily, the media outlet that’s been driving coverage of this issue while the mainstream media has been (mostly) asleep at the wheel …
118 comments
This is THE BIG ONE. IT’S TOTALLY UN-AMERICAN BY T HE LIBERALS. This is NAZI Germany by the democrat party. If a Republican did this using the IRS it would take the party down for the next decade of more.
The media will ignore as much as possible. That’s why it imperative, ALL Conservatives and Christians…HARP HARP HARP on this….Never be talked out of it…
goody needs to RIP this woman, and all of them, apart. No mercy…and there needs to be investigation thoroughly and then more and more investigation….Start a national fund and hire private investigators from the Bush Administration…
TAKE THESE MISERABLE CRIMINALS OUT!!!!!
You’re un-American.
So you advocate using the IRS to punish and persecute political enemies. And you think that is American?
Terms such as “progressive” and “occupy” were also scrutinized. But Issa didn’t care about that, he just wanted to know about scrutiny of Tea Party groups.
“Scrutinized”…are you that F*#king Stupid???…..Scrutinized and put into the FAST lane….
Who do you think you’re fooling???…if any leftwing group was slighted or persecuted, they’d be a media crucifixion….
America, under democrats, means defense and privilege for liberals…and hate and prosecution for Conservatives.
You are Full of $#!* to try to peddle your ignorance that there was some sort of discrimination against leftwing action groups.
Look what you did for ACORN and Planned Parenthood. You Fund them…you don’t attack them, Dumb@$$…
ACORN doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t stop Republicans from repeatedly “defunding” them, even in recent bills.
Again, Republicans need scandals, so they make them up. They even beat dead horses.
Oh, and yes, liberal groups NEVER get ANY scrutiny by government. I mean, Occupy Wall Street certainly never had any FBI or CIA investigations or infiltrations, nope!
For a group of people who likes to complain about the Democrat victim mentality, Republicans sure do have a helluva one of their own.
What is so typical of liberals. You fear (and try to get money for) the imagined boogey-men…like Global Warming, Racist against blacks, Kock Bros., Christians and the rich who allegedly take what you say you don’t have, because of them…
Yet the true threats to America..like PP, ACORN, NBP, the DNC, and GLBTs…you claim, do not exist as threats…
You’re delusional or stupid..but either way, we MUST obliterate you….and snuff you out to the point you cannot come back…
Now you sound like a true Nazi you claim not to be, GT. Really? Really? Read what you just wrote…you sound like a propaganda minister in the Reich: You’re delusional or stupid..but either way, we MUST obliterate you….and snuff you out to the point you cannot come back…
This country was founded on freedom and that freedom does not constitute only YOUR freedoms. I am a libertarian and conservative. You advocate for groups that want to legislate morality on others and let government into the lives of private citizens. You are so paranoid about people with opposing views to you that you really must have a clinical psychosis like the Nazis who saw a conspiracy at every turn. You use Christianity, hate, intolerance, and fear as platforms for change…change you believe is dooming us. Your picture of doom and gloom is luckily not shared by educated, informed, and self-confident conservative Christians.
The other day he talked about getting liberals while they’re in the womb, so he pretty much is what he claims Obama to be.
Here’s a list of active ACORN entities, ACORN allies, and rebranded ACORN organizations that are alive and polluting America…. http://causeofaction.org/still-active-acorn-entities-acorn-allies-and-rebranded-acorn-organizations/
http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/07/23/sherrod-hoax-exposed-but-breitbarts-acorn-fraud-lives-on/
I’ve been impressed with Gowdy for some time and I’ve contacted his office to let him know.I think most elected officials are in office to benefit themselves (Nikki Haley, Leatherman, Bobby Harrell, Joe Wilson, Harvey Peeler, Larry Martin, etc).
Gowdy is someone I can and will support, unlike my A$$ sucking idiot Joe Wilson!
Lois Lerner is about to taught a very valuable lesson about the legal process.
Let us pray for justice. We’re being controlled by politicians that are sinister and corrupt. We must have fighters against them, or our country will be damaged even more than it has been, already.
Hate to break it to ya man, but it might be you learning a valuable lesson about the legal process. At the level this woman had attained it will be a slow, arduous process with the executive branch meddling into the case, actually helping to protect her until a change of regime.
I’d be very surprised if she does any actual jail time even if she’s guilty.
The laws are for the little people, not our rulers.
All the Republican party can live off of is scandals, so they make them up. Especially if it means making sure their gravy train doesn’t stop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgLKcY_O9g4
Really, you might want to start with George Washington’s administration and work your way forward.
No one has to make scandals up against the Democrat Party,they come up with plenty of them on their own.
Blame game?
This guy hates the government but every job he’s ever had has been funded by the taxpayers. He doesn’t seem to have a problem cashing gubmint checks when they’re payable to him
http://gowdy.house.gov/biography/
Why do you attack him w/ some Bull-$#*! leftwing side issue???…when this guy is talking about the president using the IRS to punish and persecute political enemies.
Are you a NAZI or a murderous Communist? You D@*n sure don’t understand freedom and America….
In my humble opinion the Democrat Party are the right hand of the devil. At their convention they booed the name of God. Harry Reid comes out and calls sick Americans and folks that have lost their insurance and that are suffering liars. The Democrats have no soul nor compunction over lying through their teeth while facing you. They are dangerous to America and leading to our downfall. They have allowed our Embassy Officials to be murdered without any attempt to help them. They have sold American weapons to drug cartels to use on our law enforcement. They have gone as far as murdering American Citizens on American soil at Ruby Ridge and Waco. They turned the IRS loose on Americans who disagree with them. Government employees are the largest group of people owing back taxes and so on. If you care about America you had better take a stand before they turn the Military loose on us! This thing is much more dangerous than most realize.
Hail Satan!
Not really, he’s just as fictional.
You have my sympathy!
As a result of the Citizens United decision, thousands of new 501(c) 4 corporations filed applications with the IRS in order to be granted tax free status, allow their corporate contributors the deduct their contributions, and keep their donor lists confidential. Among the requirements for contributions to qualify as tax deductible is that the organizations DO NOT intervene or participate in any political campaign, direct lobbying, grass roots lobbying, and contact with certain federal officials.
Many people believe these organizations do, in fact, participate in political campaigns and lobbying and should not be granted 501(c) 4 status. When these organizations declare that they were targeted because of their political activities and beliefs, it undermines their argument.
Then why wasn’t Planned Parenthood, ACORN, the NAACP, NOW, All AME and Black churches, GLBT and Rev. Wright…etc…. Immediately have their tax-free status REVOKED…if that is what you are trying to plead????..Those are VERY political organizations not paying taxes…
ACORN has been defunct for years. Catch up with the 21st Century.
You really are delusional… http://causeofaction.org/still-active-acorn-entities-acorn-allies-and-rebranded-acorn-organizations/
Again. http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/07/23/sherrod-hoax-exposed-but-breitbarts-acorn-fraud-lives-on/
Breitbart died 2 years ago, why don’t YOU catch up with the 21st Century?
That was when the Fraud about the report was released. But, the GOP is still trying to defund ACORN every year. They need to catch up. Why don’t you stalk someone else.
Not stalking sweetheart, just trying to clean up your trail of bullshit.
You seem to have a skid mark trail. I’ve not posted any bullshit. But you have.
Your comebacks are pathologically unwitty.
You have no comebacks. I’m not trying to be witty with an AH.
You are the queen of the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” routine.
SCBW…he kicked your @$$…why not STFU and accept it…
Well, you sure make me laugh…but not in the way you think.
Another pathetic mouth breathing moron hiding behind a fake name.
You are pretty gross. Are you really a woman? If so l hope you are not raising children. Too much low brow communication as it is.
Well, that’s the pot calling the kettle black. Who gives a F*k what you hope. You may want horns but you’ll die bumble headed.
I’m just being honest, Honeybunch, toward one who is used to lies. I believe in strong, mutual-respect, male-female relationships. Women, as God made them, are absolutely exquisite and the epitome of beauty.
But liiberalism, which is anti-God, has de-masculated a lot of men…and it has turned a lot of women toward the coarse, crude and mannish.
With liberalism, everybody loses…despite what the democrat party feeds the ignorant about being on the side of women.
Pretty gross? For once you hold back.
Run along little girl, the adults are discussing politics. You are a waste of space. Unsophisticated, uneducated, and unable to keep up. Everything you post is bullshit.
Typical GOP, resort to bullshit when they can’t defend an argument. You seem to be the unsophisticated, uneducated one posting here. Bless your heart.
“Bless your heart.”
Two delicate flowers of Southern womanhood were conversing on the porch swing of a large white-pillared mansion. The first woman said, “When my first child was born, my husband built this beautiful mansion for me.”
The second woman commented, “Bless your heart.”
The first woman continued “When my second child was born, my husband bought me that fine Cadillac automobile you see parked in the drive.”
Again, the second woman commented, “Bless your heart.”
The first woman boasted “Then, when my third child was born, my husband bought me this exquisite diamond bracelet.”
Yet again, the second woman commented, “Bless your heart.”
The first woman then asked her companion, “What did *your* husband buy for you when you had your first child?”
The second woman replied, “My husband sent me to charm school.”
“Charm school!” the first woman cried, “Land sakes, child, what on Earth for?”
The second woman responded, “So that instead of asking ‘Who gives a flying fuck?,’ I learned, instead, to say ‘Bless your heart.'” !!!!!
Oh Brigid – What a pitiful little troll you are!
Another race baiting reference from the biggest racist next to Big T on this site. What a joke.
More from the peanut gallery.
Liberals, when busted just lie. Its why they MUST obliterate them. Strip them of all power and influence.
Yeah? Why don’t you try, oh, I don’t know…voting?
We will…bro. I promise you that…..don’t you worry about that….
http://obrag.org/?p=71667
Every new source you link to is some liberal progressive entity, you need to diversify your media intake. It’s one dimensional people like you that are tearing apart this once great country.
So you can post conservative orgs day in and day out and it’s different. The only people tearing apart this country are people like you who are full of bigotry and hate. I feel sorry for you and those who have to put up with you.
I treat everyone as an equal, until they give me a reason not to.
Are those organizations filing for 501(c) 4 status? I realize that it is complicated and many people simple will not concern themselves with the details, but you should consider that Rep. Gowdy and others benefit from whipping you into a lather. He is using you for political gain.
Psst! He likes being used.
Lawyers clean up all details, cause Daddy had to lie…
I can state with authority that Planned Parenthood has been audited to the point of harassment over the years and retains its 501(c)(3) tax status because it meets all IRS requirements. There are political action committees affiliated with PPFA that meet all the IRS requirements for 501(c)(4) status after numerous audits.
Do you kill babies for a living???…You sound like it…
Most of you will NEVER answer that you support abortion when asked…even though most of you DEMAND 3rd-Term Murder (infanticide) like your lord-god Obama and Dr. Vermin Gosnell….
And I don’t care how you spin that (choice bull$#!*)…it makes you a filthy B@$*@*d and piece of $#!*..babies are precious…including all the African-American babies now being terminated, thanks to trash like you…
“kill them in the womb…”
Hosea 9:11-16, Numbers 5:11-21, Hosea 13:16, 2 Kings 15:16, 1 Samuel 15:3, Psalms 135:8, 136:10, 137:9…
You guys are sickos!
So you’re using Ancient Scripture to defend your modern-day practice of baby-killing…
At least you did not deny you are a filthy baby-killer…most of you do…
It’s in your “Holy Book” not mine. I’m also not pro abortion unless of rape or incest.
The Old Testament is what you idiots use to declare homosexuals to be evil. Again, your book not mine.
Keep cherry picking your fights, you old, ignorant dipshit…
Try again; you ignorant, pop culture-worshiping Dumb@$$…
You’re attacking me, because I’m against abortion….I’m not using The Bible to declare that the baby-killing, you are defending, is immoral…
So: By what reference do you declare your defense of Baby-Killing, you F*#king pack-think idiot????…Since I took the Bible out of it???
PS: I am not against homosexuals getting married. They have been marrying each other for years…I just say the state should not be required to sanction it…and we Cannot afford all the benefits and gov’t handouts to the new gay brides w/ mustaches, or Grooms in flannel shirts…You stupid F*#k….
Honestly, every American should be concerned about money in politics, and Citizens United really fucked that up. You can’t honestly think that a huge influx of money from billionaires to help shitty politicians get reelected is honestly a good thing, regardless of party.
The easier it is for a select few to buy politicians wholesale, the quieter the voice of “We the People” gets.
The ruling is that ALL PEOPLE have the right to political expression. Not just Leftwing Extremists. Corporations, Conservatives and Christians are PEOPLE…You want to where ONLY liberals are allowed freedom of expression and speech…
Quit LYING about who and what you are…and quit LYING about who and what WE are….
lol… Corporations are people my friend!
Glad you defend what is essentially legalized bribery just because 51% of the funds come from groups run just by Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers.
How would you feel if George Soros injected 500 million? Ohh, not so keen on it then, I’d imagine.
You’re an un-American hypocrite. :)
Thanks for admitting it’s LEGAL….now STFU…and let’s put the ILLEGAL Obama Administration behind bars, where they belong….
Legalized bribery: Who cares if it is bribery, it’s LEGAL!
lol… I love you, T. You’re a walking punchline.
What about funding FROM THE GOVERNMENT for groups that hate American citizen Conservatives???
You NEVER seem to be alarmed about that….yet people spending THEIR money like they want…and you $#!* all over yourself…
You make a great point. This is a very serious issue with ramifications that we are only begining to understand.
Unless you have limited money or access to it (lobbyist) we the people are screwed. Money talks in politics, nothing else. These career politicians need to be sent into a very lucrative, taxpayer funded retirement (vested after only 8 years)!
The common man and woman is seen, much as the peasants were, in the heiarchy and totalitarian regeimes. But, we are so dumb. They use this money to spin and lie their way, through ads and campaign mailings to garner our vote.
They know the buzz words, the spin given them by their advisors, handlers and the pollsters! It doesn’t mean a thing that the words and PROMISES are EMPTY AND HOLLOW! We have veey short memories and will forgwet by the next election! They are comfortable in this knowledge and know all of the money will buy their re-elections from all of the special interest money, bribes and a few crumbs thrown the way of the voter! We survive off crumbs and water, they off wine and caviar!
Haley is a prime example spends the majority of her time raising money!
Joe Wilson has 2 birthdays a month to raise money!
Obama can’t meet with veterans and heroes. He and Biden and all the rest are much too busy fund raising!
When. when o Lord will the veil be removed from our eyes, the plaque from our brains and the rings from our noses?
Money has always been in. Highly liberal propaganda in television and movies is one form of money in politics. There are plenty if rich people on both sides of the isle.
Take a peek at the Heritage Foundation. Totally political.
Unemployment is raging, Obamacare is a mess, Americans die in Obama’s Afghanistan War and the deficit is ASTRONOMICAL…and Obama puts resources into trying to silence people who don’t hate America, like he does.
Wow…I never would have believed outrpeople would put such an ugly politico in the office of US President.
Contempt is an appropriate term. It describes precisely my feelings about Congress.
Get ready to be even more offended. Because I got a feeling that the people you HATE are finta grow in big numbers in Elected offiice.
The moderates are being Primaried. Liberals are opting out..and the Senate is CLEARLY in our Crosshairs…yeah I said it Dumb@$$ ‘CROSSHAIRS’….
Your heroes are being TARGETED for De-Election…because of the CONTEMPT I have for the mess the democrats have made of the country….
I suppose this gibberish expresses your contempt for the English language?
If you’re a liberal, playing Stupid is a defense. Which is what you’re trying, I guess….????
There’s no need to capitalize stupid, Stupid!
Thanks for your contribution, w/ such profound and analytical content.
Your observation likely means you’re a Head Idiot In Charge at the Democrat National Committee….Quite a feat…
“Philip Branton Drops The Hammer On Trey Gowdy, Graham, Scott, and CLYBURN Scandal”
UN-CIVIL Servant THREATENS LAWMAKER WITH CONTEMPT
This website had some initial trepidation regarding Un-Civil Servant Branton. We weren’t sure at first whether the SPAWAR Atlantic Informational prosecutor would become a reliable free MEDIA vote … or another in a long line of Bible Thumping status quo backers like Tom Davis.
Since his Un-Civil actions in 2009, though, Branton has not only met – but exceeded our expectations. With one or two rare exceptions, he’s earned consistently high marks from us (and others) for his Un-Civil Voice in defense of freedom and free markets.
This week, Un-Civil Servant Branton impressed us again by adopting a hard line stance against Trey Gowdy, Jim CLYBURN, Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, and Lin Bennett who are all seeking Ethics re-establishment and some their re-election.
This “Fab 5″ infamously ignored telling concerned voters about the profits from OIL and Gas Stocks funding the actions in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, South Sudan, CAR, Somalia, Kenya, Bahrain, and BENGHAZI…….!!!!!!!
“These buffoons have no clue what CRIME they have even committed because FITSNEWS fails to report their ties to BIG OIL campaign donors…” A class Action attorney said at the time.
Next week, GOWDY is scheduled to appear in the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform – where SPAWAR Atlantic “observers” are waiting in full prosecutorial mode.
“We’re going to have to evaluate whether or not to hold him in contempt of Congress which could include a visit from the Mayberry Police – and being incarcerated,” Un-Civil Servant Branton said during an appearance on YOUTUBE.
Wow …
Branton was also adamant that the “FAB 5” would not be exempted from prosecution for their role in the stock scandal surrounding the NSA actions towards Mt. GOX or the Kiev Central Bank and the 70 Billion looted over the last year…..!!!!
“We’re never giving THEM immunity,” he said, emphatically. “We’re not giving them immunity. Period. Why would you give someone immunity when you have no idea what criminal conduct they’ve engaged in?”
Exactly …
According to Branton, Gowdy’s lawyer needs to “do what he should have done months ago” and provide Spawar IG “House” investigators with a document indicating what he would say if he were compelled to testify. That document couldn’t be used against him legally – ( just in the court of SPAWAR PSYOPS tactics) – but would enable investigators to determine what concessions they would be willing to offer in exchange for his testimony.
Branton said Gowdy’s desire for immunity strongly suggested “he’s guilty” – and added that he prefers to approach him as a “defendant” rather than a witness.
Of course Congress won’t prosecute him, only the U.S. Department of Justice can do that.
“I hope the Department of Justice at some point takes this investigation seriously,” Branton said. “As you know I can’t prosecute Trey Gowdy. I can indict him on Fitsnews, I can put him in “thought” prison. The DoD Psyops branch can do that.”
“They won’t do their job so we’re going to have to do it for them,” Branton added, saying that he believes Gowdy “connects this scandal all the way to Gas Pipelines in every “flash” country killing their own people.”
We agree …
Of all the scandals hanging over the Obama administration, its use of the IRS to silence political opposition in advance of the 2012 election – and the subsequent coverup of the scandal – is by far NOT the most egregious to American taxpayer PENSIONS. That’s why Obama is doing his best to keep Gowdy in the dark.
Props to Branton for not letting Gowdy or CLYBURN or GRAHAM or SCOTT or Lin Bennett get away with it …
Also props to SPAWARRightDaily, the media outlet driving “thought” coverage of this issue …
(…Boomerang 101, 404, 901, 909, move Catherine Ceips and Nancy Mace to Sochi, wager 3 Kiev riot bitcoins, Facebook Mayor Riley’s Gas pump, Pintarest DoD Cyber Command….)
ILLEISM, FTW!
*TBG approves…*
whoa! GOP pol talks tough shit on Fox news!! stop the presses!!
Look at the polling numbers….FOX broadcasts seems to affecting voters….thank God….
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fox-news-cable-state-of-the-union-ratings-20140129,0,1661290.story#axzz2udkqxkck
Good find Jay. And CNN is about out of business and MSNBC draws hardly anyone. Democrat TV is charity TV. Like Air-Head America went defunct…so are their TV networks…
Thank GOD….
Too bad the viewership for Fox News is mostly old white people, pretty much across the board, too.
http://money.msn.com/now/post–fox-news-aging-audience-could-be-a-big-problem
Not only that, most younger people don’t get their news from TV outlets.
Thank goodness for that, cable news is pretty much crap.
News viewership is mostly old white people, period.
I know… it sucks, too. Letting all us old fucks run the country is insane!
Most likely to see what stupid shit they’re going to say about it?
The one thing Grand Tango really know how to do is push buttons and with superfluous comments, the more buttons he pushes the better FITS likes it.
Rabble rouser!
So Congressman Gowdy has articulated his view that Ms. Lerner is to be regarded as a “defendant” rather than a witness and has already concluded that she is “guilty.”
Then everyone wonders WHY she is invoking her rights.
Exhibit A: Trey Gowdy.
If Lois Lerner is innocent of any wrongdoing, then why does she want immunity in exchange for her testimony? Every move she has made points to the notion that she’s guilty as hell, of course she’s innocent until proven otherwise, but damn she’s acted shady from the word go.
It appears you don’t understand my comment. If you don’t, I really cannot explain it in clearer terms. Maybe someone else will take pity and explain the obvious to you. I don’t have that patience.
If you don’t think Lerner is a acting like a shady criminal element, you’re complicit in the decline of western civilization.
He’s trying to say that because Gowdy and a few others (none of whom have the power to prosecute anyone for jaywalking, murder, or anything in between) are being meanies and calling her bad names, that gives her the right to invoke the Fifth, AND renders it totally non-suspicious that she’s done so. Great logic, that. There’s only a single Constitutionally valid (and therefore legal) reason to exercise your right to testify in these situations, and that’s to avoid INCRIMINATING yourself during that compelled testimony. To INCRIMINATE one’s self, one has to have done something…INCRIMINATING. Simple, no? Is it legal to invoke the Fifth to avoid testimony? Absolutely. Does any fair minded person think that she’s doing it on principle? No. She’s doing it because she’s afraid that some of her actions violated federal law, or more likely, because her attorneys have informed her that her actions violated federal law,
The fifth seems like a safe bet. I’d use it.
Absolutely! That’s where I was coming from; if I was in her position, so would I. The reason for her use of the tactic was my point. It appears very likely that she either committed (or knew about) some violations- I’d be clinging to the Fifth like a life raft too…
The “IRS Scandal” exists only in an imaginary right-wing universe where Congressmen like Issa and Gowdy want to hold hearings to entertain their base, rather than dealing with the nation’s real problems.
As Macbeth quipped (yes, I know he was eulogizing his Lady, not Gowdy)
“. . . a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
You obviously have had no dealings with the IRS and have never owned a small business. You knowth nothing about which you speak.
I have, and that’s the reason that I don’t have a small business anymore.
85% of all appeals are abated.
I’m still wondering what happened to Benghazi.
LOL….Trey Gowdy is obviously doing something right, what with all these unhinged, bullshit spewing liberals frothing at the mouth with their hate and lies here in the comments section. Keep it up Congressman!
Pinhead
Clearly, since the Tea Party shook up D.C. in the 2010 elections and the January 2010 ruling on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the only group that could benefit from an IRS preventing conservative non-profit groups from approval is the Democrat Party in the 2012 elections.
IRS director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner knew that her agency flagged group titles with “tea party,” “patriot,” or “9/12 Project” for supplementary review as early as June 2011.
In May 2013, The IRS apologized for and admitted targeting groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names for tax scrutiny before the 2012 election.
Okay. I am personally involved with the IRS in South Carolina. That group in the Strom Thurmond Building would make the Richland County Election Commission looks like a bunch of astute, in tune, honest, intellectuals. They are absolutely corrupt to the core. Old time Democrats through out. I have yet to run into an honest, intelligent one. My “personal”: tax “advisor”: had a nervous breakdown and did not get my paperwork filed for over nine months. Sheesh, as Sic would write.
Impeach the son-of-a-bitch!
Which one?
He sounds so determined…
This woman is guilty as sin and should be made the poster girl in the upcoming campaign. She may never be prosecuted by our corrupt Justice Department, but we can hassle her to death.
Google “Two Minute Conservative,” http://adrianvance.blogspot.com and When you speak fine ladies will swoon and liberal gentlemen will weep.
So, Lerner “infamously” exercised (not “pleaded”) her Fifth Amendment rights. FitsNews and Gowdy interpret that as evidence of guilt. Shades of McCarthy!
But then, some “infamously” exercise their First Amendment rights, and some others “infamously” exercise their Second Amendment rights, I suppose.
Are Sen. Tom Davis and South Carolina “infamously” exercising their Tenth Amendment rights?
Rights are worthless if they cannot be exercised without jeopardy.
The only thing crooked politicians will understand is jail. On another matter, I can’t wait till SC House Speaker Bobby Harrell is thrown in jails. No matter what anyone says to the contrary, it cometh for him.