Seized phone records? White House staffers? Fox News reporters — plural?
And now the IRS is taking the Fifth?
Because you know, when people start taking the Fifth, you are ON the proper track.
From the UKDailyMail (a foreign news source that I trust):
Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program
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The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.
The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.
Lerner’s defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III, wrote to the committee on Tuesday that his client would refuse to answer questions related to what she knew about the extra levels of scrutiny applied to conservative nonprofit organizations that applied for tax-exempt status beginning in 2010.
This just seems to be getting worse. The IRS, the AP angle, Benghazi, And I find it very difficult not to smile widely at the news, and at the fact that Mr Obama’s tailfeathers seem to find themselves on fire.
The Obama DOJ is doing more to oppress the freedom of the press than the Nixon IRS every dreamed of, or was thought to have done. More ass-covering over Benghazi than Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia.
Important related links:
- Documents: IRS letters harassing conservative groups came from Washington, DC headquarters and from California offices, despite Inspector General’s focus on Cincinnati employees
- Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained
- Documents: IRS letters harassing conservative groups came from Washington, DC headquarters and from California offices, despite Inspector General’s focus on Cincinnati employees
- Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting – including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers
- IRS official in charge during tea party targeting is now directing the agency’s health care unit
Sharyl Attkisson’s computers compromised
Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.
“I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public.”
Yes, folks, “way back” at Fast & Furious, the Obama Administration was seeking to stem the information that the American public — American Taxpayers — deserve, as an accounting, of where and how our tax money is spent. Because, make no mistake: these fucktards in DC do what they do only because we fund them. We pay their salaries, we pay them to create laws to oppress us, we pay them to obfuscate and lie and prevaricate and deflect. We pay them to work against the best interests of us: American Taxpayers. Try to wrap your brain around that concept.
The IRS doing what it does best under Obama: oppressing Conservatives and singling them out for . It’s a culture that shows a complete lack of moral fiber — mirroring nothing more than Mr Obama himself. It is a Culture of Intimidation.
Freedom of the Press? Freedom of American Taxpayers whose blood, sweat and tears are funneled to DC?
Sorry maggots, that just doesn’t happen in this administration. Harder work and more of it, taxpayers. Then shut the hell up.
Obama the Imperial and his minions have decreed it so.
BZ
P.S.
More: The liberal union behind the IRS funded any and all anti-TEA Party candidates.
Obama and the IRS: the smoking gun?
As Dennis Prager said yesterday “The idea of diversity to the Left is to subvert the idea of merit.”
Yep, and don’t forget Fast and Furious, it’s still out there too! Pathetic… Legal but pathetic…
I haven’t forgotten it, and neither has Sharyl Attkisson.
BZ
If this was the Bush administration the Dems and Libtards would be screaming for TRUTH and transparency… The hypocrisy of the Left would be funny as hell if it weren’t so dangerous to ALL of America…
And to you I say: THANK YOU for keeping the line held, and THANK YOU for keeping on.
BZ
Let me interrogate them like I did in another life back in 1961-64.
Oh baby.
O baby baby baby.
[BZ rubs his hands together]
BZ
5th Amendment? Give them immunity. Effectively end their careers, right there. They deserve to have their careers ended for breaking the public trust.
There you go, WSF, living in a semblance of reality.
BZ
Snort! Bad character trait, to be sure, but I’m working on it.
Recognize: crocodile tears shed by Leftists.
Recognize this first.
BZ
bz..this blog post is fabulous…what unbelievable information! THE FIFTH? I thought it was a joke when I saw your ‘teaser’ email at my computer telling me what your newest post was on!! You’re right; if you’re pleading the fifth, you are IN TROUBLE. And I admire Sharyl Atkisson SO much and wrote about her the other day because she’s apparently a LIB with this much integrity. WHO KNEW?
And then I burst into laughter at the MISS ME YET!? Didn’t expect that…but YES, I DO! 🙂 Great stuff, BZ..thanks
And thank YOU, Z. . .
It’s just the truth.
BZ
Did you like Holder’s portrayal as the three monkeys?
BZ
The idea here is to sandbag the tide of the investigation. No more information will come out linking Obama directly if they can help it. Dumbest thing to do here is offer immunity. She’ll lie anyway. Stick this woman in jail (violation of her oath). Separate her from her world and she’ll make a deal on her own.
Good article here: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/20/obama-and-the-irs-the-smoking
Get a subpoena to Coleen Kelley and subordinates. Get the emails etc. They’re scuttling the ship as we speak.
She knew what was going on and made the info public almost 2 weeks ago. She didn’t have to, did she? She must have had some idea of the fallout that would cause. Why do it if she wasn’t prepared to deal with it? Hasn’t she already incriminated herself? Why now take the 5th? Has someone made her an offer she can’t refuse? What’s the worst that could happen to her if she did testify?