Whether it’s a homegrown terrorist with Nigerian heritage butchering a UK serviceman, or an IRS operative targeting the First Amendment, if the reason for bloodshed – be it literal or political – is rooted in religious-like fervor, Jihadists will defend their “Holy War.”
After being party to a deliberate hatchet job, Lois Lerner, head of the division of the IRS that oversees tax-exempt organizations and a key figure in the IRS scandal, appeared before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. With the shameless attitude of the bloody-handed London assassin, Lerner denied all wrongdoing. Ms. Lerner maintained that “I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations. And I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee.”
In the 1990s Lois Lerner was Chief of Enforcement at the Federal Elections Commission, where she oversaw the FEC’s largest lawsuit against the Christian Coalition for allegedly violating campaign laws. The Christian Coalition ultimately won the suit, but that didn’t stop Lerner the Operative from being promoted to a position in the IRS where she could impose the same kind of First Amendment rights infringement against Christians, conservatives, and even Jewish groups.
Now Lerner is pleading the fifth and refusing to answer any of the committee’s questions. Instead, she expressed an “Allahu Akbar”-level pride in her service to a federal agency that she admitted had inappropriately scrutinized applications for 501C (4) status by sniffing out tea partyers and patriots and even auditing a 94-year-old evangelist named Billy Graham.
It is understandable why she would plead the fifth. There is a paper trail that reveals her direct involvement in sending intrusive and harassing questionnaires to Tea Party groups in 2012. The timing of her letters coincide with the appearance of former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman before Congress in March 2012 who testified that no such targeting scheme existed.
In liberal jihadi circles, conservative and religious groups seeking tax-exempt status to advocate against things such as ObamaCare, gun control, higher taxes, bloated government, and abortion are probably viewed as hatchet-worthy. So Lerner might believe she did nothing wrong because the way to thwart the enemy is, indeed, “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for tooth.”
The audaciously unrepentant Lerner is part of a political terrorist cell that includes other IRS colleagues.
Sarah Hall Ingram was the head of the IRS tax-exempt office at the height of targeting the Tea Party, patriot, evangelical, and Jewish organizations between 2009 and 2012 and despite, or more likely because of, running over conservatives with her political bus, Ingram received $100K in bonuses and was promoted to director of the IRS Affordable Care Act office. Ingram becoming the lead enforcer of Obamacare mandatory health insurance could be likened to an Islamic jihadist waking up in Jinnah surrounded by 72 virgins after a job well done.
Then of course, there’s disrespectful, axed-but-really-just-retiring, Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller. Rich Stowell of the Washington Times wrote that, during his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Steve Miller proved “[t]o be a villainous wretch, a bully bureaucrat of the lowest order” who, “like many guilty henchmen…offered up the defense that he was just doing his job.”
Last but not least is Bush appointee/DNC donor/former IRS commission Douglas H. Shulman. Mr. Shulman testified before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that although he was well aware of the IRS scandal, he too tried to distance himself from the controversy.
Having frequented the White House 118 times in two years, Shulman claimed it was for innocuous events like taking the kids to the White House Easter Egg Roll – a claim about as believable as the London terrorist saying his hands were stained red from dying Easter eggs with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
You can read The BlackSphere article by Jeannie Deangelis at this link.
“Fear is the key element for the IRS in achieving its mission. Without fear, the IRS would have a difficult time maintaining our so-called system of voluntary compliance …”Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can… the IRS does not really care about you and what your future……. may be”. -Santo Presti, former IRS Criminal Investigation Agent and author of “IRS In Action”
