Elections, including by tea party groups, and by liberal leaning groups. in fact, a 296 page report by the treasury department s inspector general found that the only group to have its tax exemption denied was a liberal one. yes, hearing after hearing in the house oversight committee has turned up no evidence of a coordinated campaign against conservative groups. instead republicans are determined to hold lois lerner in contempt of congress and here s what dems have to say about that. this is really turning into a witch hunt. frankly, to serve the base of the republican party. when you say no information, there are literally thousands of pages of information that have been given to the committee about this issue, so there s been very extensive investigation. editor in chief of think progress. judd, i think the sort of obvious question here, republicans control the house of representatives. wouldn t it be easier for house republicans to simply attempt to pass a bill, changing the
And businesses were boycotted and if there was an employee at a business, the business was boycotted. seventh graders and the irs would ask for the identity of those students is unbelievably , uncon uncon sheen uh blee chilling. what were you thinking? fascinating. were you looking how will this be seen? the fact is it is embarrassing. i swear to god i looked at that video over and over again and i swear i do not see the redeeming value. there you have it. more hearings on capitol hill regarding lavish spending from the irs and targeting of the groups. not only are people angry about the disregard for your tax dollars, some of those targeted by the group say they are very upset with their government. and making news this week after she broke down while testifying, an emotional becky garrett son is joining us.
Old they are, how long we have them and stuff like that. so these two rogue agents running a muck for three years or even three months, it would never happen. fofacre said her boss in washington, irs lawyer, carter hall, asked for extra paperwork on the conservative groups. there are reports now that hall may be retiring. and you may remember that former acting irs director steven miller also was allowed to retire early after the scandal started breaking. legal experts say it is tough to get fired in the government job for a reason. that would be a disincentive for people to want to devote their careers to government. it would make things unstable and unpredictable. there is some value to having protections in place so that you can t have wholesale mass firing of hundreds of thousands of government employees all at once. but there is clearly a balance you have to strike here. dupreist says the goal is to make sure hundreds of thousands of those employees
Back and corrected the record. he didn t. that s three levels of failure, if you will. stepping back and wrapping up for a moment, you as an american citizen and you as someone who once ran this agency, doesn t it make you angry over the revelations that have come forward so far about the excesses and the fact that groups have been targeted? and this is something that just goes against the principals and the values that we stand for as americans? i know the service can do better, and it does anger me that it has been undermined. many americans are further in road space. that s horrible. and with recent are revelations stemming from a host of political scandals in washington and now the news that our government is mining data of millions of americans we want to know, are we headed down a dangerous path? and can you now trust the government? treat your answers to us at
Really what were outrageous selection criteria, tea party and words like that and nothing from more liberal leaning groups. it does appear they didn t want to be thrown under the bus. they felt they were being used as a scapegoat as so-called rogue agents were doing their own thing and targeting these different groups, and now they are coming out saying, no, wait a minute. it wasn t just about us. we were getting our marching orders from washington. look, i think there were failures at three levels. one in that cinncinati office they can t shirk responsibility for what they did. then the exempt organization s leadership, lois lerner, and then in the front office, the commissioner should have done more to learn about these problems, if you will and when he testified in march of 2012, his testimony should have been different. and then finally when he learned what he said was incorrect he should have gone