Lois Lerner

New documents show she almost certainly broke the law.

But the laws are apparently only for enemies of the state.

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Related: Benghazi lies were just standard procedure under Obama. Lies in general are standard procedure under Obama. And there’s never any accountability or consequence. They got him re-elected.

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Also related: Hillary’s email story continues to get more and more difficult to believe. Because it’s lies all the way down.

The latest batch of emails suggest that Clinton’s filter to decide between the personal and the professional was far from foolproof. That these emails never saw the light of day before Monday — or before a conservative legal advocacy group petitioned for their release — opens up the possibility that there are plenty more like them that Clinton chose to delete but shouldn’t have. And it provides more fodder for the Republican argument that Clinton appointing herself as judge, jury and executioner for her emails was, at best, a very, very bad decision and, at worst, something more nefarious than just bad judgment.

Gee, ya think?

5 thoughts on “Lois Lerner”

  1. Broke? Past tense? Lerner, yes.

    The IRS in general? PRESENT tense, please.

    Even if one were to completely agree on some non-neutral, viewpoint-tested, approval process for “political education” groups’ tax status; even if one were to say ‘of course, we would never give Nazis or Islamists or Stalinists or Flat Earthers or Anti-Vaxxers the same sort of tax favors we give liberals and conservatives’ the IRS is STILL breaking the law by not completing a response within a statutory time limit. Say “NO!” if necessary. But there are groups that applied in 2011 that are STILL waiting for a decision on their application, when the law allows the IRS only 90 days to review and decide.

    What if you filed for an extension on the April 15th (2011) deadline for filing your 1040, and when the six month extended deadline rolled up in October, ’11 you begged another delay, and again the year after that and again and again and again? Suppose by the second such request for extension you didn’t even bother to file paperwork? How long before guys with badges and guns came visiting? Suppose then you “explained” that the hard drive on your computer crashed, and the printout were badly smeared, and the file cabinet had been spilled and papers not yet resorted into date or alphabetical order, and (and and and) other related issues prevented you from filing your 2010 taxes — or figuring out what you might owe?

    How long would you stay out of court, if not jail?

  2. I am advised that the statutory time limit is 270 days, not 90. My apologies for the error.

    However, during both the Shrub’s and Philanderer’s administrations, the average response time, my source believes, was on the order of 90 days. The custom if not the requirement was as I portrayed earlier.

    Something changed in 2009. That change did not arise from any act of Congress.

    On the other hand, the current many-year non-responsive process has NOT changed since 2010 despite departure of Ms Lerner. So, there’s that.

  3. The problem is not just corrupt personnel administering the law (who should be facing jail time), but a horrendously complex tax law, where different rules apply if you meet certain qualifications, requiring a great many administrators, and granting those administrators leeway within which to exercise bias and corruption.

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