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To: jlallen who wrote (763141)	1/10/2014 7:42:11 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573694

Another swing and a miss. If there was any there there anywhere, Issa would be filling out impeachment papers instead of pounding his pud in public. You know that. If he had anything, he would use it. = "However, there were no findings by the Accountability Review Board of political bias or willful misconduct." Levin Statement on Lois Lerner’s Resignation from IRS Sep 23, 2013 WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after Lois Lerner resigned from the Internal Revenue Service. Lerner’s resignation was received this morning after the IRS’ internal Accountability Review Board completed its review and was set to propose Lerner’s removal from the IRS on the basis of “neglect of duties” during Lerner’s tenure as the Director of the Exempt Organization Division of IRS. This “mismanagement” isconsistent with the findings of the TIGTA report, which was the reason Ranking Member Levin immediately called for Lerner to be relieved of her duties. However, there were no findings by the Accountability Review Board of political bias or willful misconduct. “Lois Lerner is being held responsible for her gross mismanagement of the IRS tax-exempt division, which led to improper handling of applications for tax-exempt status, whether conservative and progressive. As has been the case in all aspects of the current IRS investigation, the IRS internal Review Board found no evidence of political bias in her neglect of duties. The basic overreaching premise of the Republicans that the IRS had an ‘enemies list’ and was being influenced from the outside has been proven wrong again, as it has again and again. Just as the IRS has to move with all deliberate speed to restore the public trust, so too must the Republicans by not distorting the investigation and by acknowledging the improvements.” democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov In fact, this whole effort was led by a conservative. A self-described “conservative Republican” manager from the Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that he sent a tea party case to Washington on Feb. 25, 2010 to help determine whether the group should qualify for tax-exempt status, according to the excerpts. A timeline from the inspector general’s report listed an event on that same date as the genesis of the targeting initiative, which first focused on groups with names including “tea party,” “patriot” and “9/12,” a term associated with conservative political commentator Glenn Beck. A screening agent from the Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that he developed the initial search criteria after the conservative manager asked him to identify additional cases, according to Cummings. “I noticed that there were hundreds of these things,” the agent reportedly said about tea party groups he discovered on the Internet. “So some of the names I used — some of the terms — to find the tea parties. Tea party went by other names.” According to Cummings’ memo, the conservative IRS manager said no one from Washington ordered him to identify additional tea party cases. “There was no — there was no — no one said to make a search,” the employee said, according to an excerpt. washingtonpost.com However, I strongly urge you to run on these "scandals" all the way thru the debate season and the general in '16. Should be worth an extra 5% to the Dems Cuckoo, cuckoo