Page 36 - Lois Learner News Today

Informantive article ive red about osa, learner said to sharon lying, maybe i can get the d.c. office jobs and is that retirement talk? some people might say, obviously she was joking, why cant we get the context from her directly? i mean, why is it out of the realm of possibility to suggest that she wasnt a foot soldier in obamas army? >> well, george gra to a i to usually said the congress did not investigate iran contra, or the committees of congress didnt investigate that much. the fact ther...

In november they knew about it. they said oh, we know nothing about this. march 22nd, 2012 in a weighs and means subcommittee hearing, douglas shulman said there is absolutely no targeting. and then in april of 2012 in a letter to the house oversight committee, learner said the irs questioned the tea party groups were in the quote ordinary course of the application process. that all turned out not to be true and we know again, going back months and a year earlier she knew otherwise. moving to ma...

Lawmakers voting later today on whether former irs official lois learner will be held in contempt of congress for twice refusing to testify about the targeting scandal. they asked the department of justice to consider criminal charges. what does this mean? joining me now -- >> thanks, steve. >> she showed up to testify and said i plead the fifth. has she forfeited her fifth amendment rights? >> thats a great question. and unfortunately the answer is a little ambiguous. if she had just said i dec...

Unprecedented review and experienced years long delays. some groups were singled out for scrutiny. evidence shows it was due to a non-political reason according to the oversight committee and a full screen of an e-mail, lois learner talking about taking a job organizing for action while she had oversight at the irs a damming e-mail if ever there was one. joining me now with reaction to this and much more, we are going to be joined by senator ran paul of kentucky. welcome to the program. >> good ...

That was a group subject possibly to investigation and we got issues if they talked about government spending or referenced for example, government debt or taxes, they were subject to this abuse. lois learner learned this in june of 2011. making america a better place to live, thats what she learned. that was the criteria for your government to begin to intimidate, harass and go after people that had political disagreements with the administration or statements in the case file criticized how th...

We have to ask the questions. nobody know what iss going on any individuals mind or heart at any given time, but its been a couple of years since holder was held in contempt by this congress. now theyre going to go after lois learner from the irs. but you have to ask, why is he being singled out and its a fair question. >> but even before we get to lerner, which is another point i would argue against them, let me go gook you on this one, karen, lets not forget the attacks on reno, yes. the attac...

>> 23 yeas, 14 nays. >> by a vote, they have referred this to eric holder about lois learners role in tarring targeting groups. >> mr. chairman, i have a right for point of order. >> just chill out, what is the gentleman -- >> you follow procedure, sir. >> what is the gentlemans point of order? >> im very chilled out. lawmakers say learners action may have violated one or more criminal statutes. that includes using her position to improperly influence irs scrutiny showing extreme bias and prejud...

They have nothing back at the white house. the implication of course is goes back to the white house. its also b.s. they cant prove that. the number of flooding of tea party applications of enormous that year and there werent that many progressive groups being put in there. >> so bob, that is the new talking point, you get to say all the liberal groups are targeted too but now presented with sworn testimony from irs employees, you can say i didnt really mean that? >> this isnt too outlandish, bo...

Conspiracy in the nixon white house and didnt do it. very demonstrably not doing it. >> the irony theyre saying her offense was to release confidential taxpayer information. what did they vote to do today? voted to release confidential taxpayer information to prove that lois learner had done something wrong. it adds yet another layer to the farce thats going on. ways and means is relatively serious compared to whats going on over in the darrell issas oversight committee. ways and means is at lea...

Course, have an eerie ring of deja vu because, after all, he did stand at ft. hood five years ago to member more allize victims of a different mass shooting at that post, 13 people killed in that 2009 rampage. in national news, they want her charged. today in a party lean vote, house committee asked the justice department to pursue criminal charges against former irs official lois learner. gop lawmakers accuse of her, quote, aggressively engineering crackdown on conservative groups that wanted...