Issa should be criminally liable for creating the IRS lie and costing taxpayers MILLIONS of dollars.

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Why hasn't he been charged? Where are the ethics charges? Why are congressional Democrats not on every news outlet demanding Issa resign?

Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups.



The bombshell IRS audit released in May omitted information about liberal groups at the request of House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s office.

A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators “narrowly focus on tea party organizations.”

The subsequent audit concluded the IRS used “inappropriate criteria” to single out for additional scrutiny tea party groups that applied for tax exempt status. The findings lead almost every politician, including President Barack Obama, to denounce the IRS. Several Republicans suggested the audit indicated the White House had a Nixonian “enemies list.”

Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Issa said the IRS appeared to have been targeting Obama’s political opponents “perhaps not on his request” but “on his behalf.”

But new documents have revealed that liberal and progressive groups received similar treatment from the IRS. The “inappropriate criteria” used to single out tea party groups — so-called “Be On the Look Out” (BOLO) memos — also singled out progressive and “Occupy” groups.

The omitted information has caused Democrats to question whether the audit was truthful.

“Failing to make this clear in these documents and at Congressional Hearings even when asked directly has been fully misleading,” Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI) wrote in a letter to George on Wednesday. “It has contributed to the distortion of this entire investigation, including use of innuendo and totally unsubstantiated assertions of White House involvement.”
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/issa-directed-treasury-inspector-general-to-ignore-irs-treatment-of-liberal-groups/

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1. You think Grand Theft Auto Issa is finished with this lie

He and the other ReTHUG goons are now going for Lois Lerner
http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/house-committee-says-lois-lerner-waived-fifth-amendment-right/2013/06/28/617b662a-e02d-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html
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Republican lawmakers on Friday passed a resolution declaring that an Internal Revenue Service official waived her Fifth Amendment right last month when she proclaimed her innocence at a congressional hearing, but legal experts said the vote is all but meaningless.

The House Oversight Committee called Lois Lerner to testify May 14 about the agency’s inappropriate scrutiny of groups seeking tax-exempt status.


Before invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Lerner told the committee: “I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee.”

Lerner’s attorney has said she is part of a Justice Department criminal investigation. The IRS has placed her on administrative leave.
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These fugging criminals are brazen

[Major Hogwash]

2. Great thread!!!

My brother said the same thing just this week.

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6. Well, let's KEEP saying it. As loud as we can.

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[think]

3. Hope the Dems step up and take Issa to task for his criminal ways

seriously....

[Turbineguy]

4. He should go back to stealing cars.

Society would pay a lower cost.

[edhopper]

5. Let's all say it together

IOKIYAAR