Saturday, May 11, 2013

Time For Impeachment?

From Fox News:
Tea Party leaders refused to accept an apology from the IRS Friday in which the agency acknowledged that it inappropriately flagged conservative groups for additional review during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. 
Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, said she wants to see resignations over what she called the "disturbing, illegal and outrageous abuse of government power." 
Republican lawmakers also seized on the acknowledgment, after having complained about the suspected harassment more than a year ago. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell called for a "government-wide review" to assure "these thuggish practices" are not in use elsewhere. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor later said the House would investigate. 
Reaction was swift and harsh after Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups, acknowledged the issue at a conference Friday sponsored by the American Bar Association. 
She confirmed that organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status. 
In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, she said. 
"That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate," Lerner said. "The IRS would like to apologize for that."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/10/irs-apologizes-for-targeting-conservative-groups/#ixzz2Sxr8Ax4N
So, they announce it on a Friday, at the end of the work day.  That's how government and businesses break bad news.
They say no one had their tax exempt taken away but they didn't say anything about how many groups didn't have their tax exempt status approved. 
And how many areas of the country has this happened?  Just Cincinnati?  I doubt it.
And what happened to the employees?  Did they get fired?  Or did they transfer to other offices?

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