Citizens United Obsession Motivated Lois Lerner to Shut Out Cincy
The below article helps focus the motive behind Lois Learner claiming her 5th Amendment right and refusing to testify before House Oversight Hearings and addresses the Smoking Gun email that has been identified.
by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: When Lois Lerner tried to inoculate herself from scandal by planting a question at a Friday afternoon conference, her excuse was to pass the blame to "low-level employees" in Cincinnati. The official IRS statement was:
"Between 2010 and 2012, the IRS saw the number of applications for section 501(c)(4) status double. As a result, local career employees in Cincinnati sought to centralize work and assign cases to designated employees in an effort to promote consistency and quality. This approach has worked in other areas. However, the IRS recognizes we should have done a better job of handling the influx of advocacy applications."
It's important to note that the centerpiece of the "flood" fairy tale was that Citizens United created a huge influx of new tax exempt organizations. The New York Times telling was typical:
"But after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision on campaign financing freed corporations and unions to spend money on elections, hundreds of new applications began to arrive from Tea Party and other organizations."
We've already exposed the "flood of applications" excuse as a flat lie; in fact, applications were down when the targeting began. And it has been widely covered that "blame Cincy" was inconsistent with the reality that targeting was run out of Washington.
But it turns out that Citizens United was central to the genesis of IRS tea party targeting. Not because of the mythical flood of applications, but rather because Lois Lerner micromanaged tea party applications because she was trying to set up a challenge to Citizens United and didn't trust the career civil servants in Cincinnati to play along. Here is the key email that was released yesterday:
Remind me again why we're still paying this woman's salary?
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment and the author of Democracy Denied: How Obama is Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America – and How to Stop Him. Phil Kerpen is a contributing author for the ARRA News Service.
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"Between 2010 and 2012, the IRS saw the number of applications for section 501(c)(4) status double. As a result, local career employees in Cincinnati sought to centralize work and assign cases to designated employees in an effort to promote consistency and quality. This approach has worked in other areas. However, the IRS recognizes we should have done a better job of handling the influx of advocacy applications."
It's important to note that the centerpiece of the "flood" fairy tale was that Citizens United created a huge influx of new tax exempt organizations. The New York Times telling was typical:
"But after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision on campaign financing freed corporations and unions to spend money on elections, hundreds of new applications began to arrive from Tea Party and other organizations."
We've already exposed the "flood of applications" excuse as a flat lie; in fact, applications were down when the targeting began. And it has been widely covered that "blame Cincy" was inconsistent with the reality that targeting was run out of Washington.
But it turns out that Citizens United was central to the genesis of IRS tea party targeting. Not because of the mythical flood of applications, but rather because Lois Lerner micromanaged tea party applications because she was trying to set up a challenge to Citizens United and didn't trust the career civil servants in Cincinnati to play along. Here is the key email that was released yesterday:
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment and the author of Democracy Denied: How Obama is Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America – and How to Stop Him. Phil Kerpen is a contributing author for the ARRA News Service.
Tags: Lois Learner, smoking gun, email, Supreme Court, 2010 decision, Citizens United, IRS, attacks on conservative groups To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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Yes, a great video.
She should be in jail for lying to congress as well as targeting groups to further the democrats.
Lois Learner is a very EVIL AND CORRUPT individual!
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