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Life Long Dem

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11. They need to fire the IRS workers
Mon May 13, 2013, 01:21 PM
May 2013
“It’s the line people that did it without talking to managers,” Lerner told the AP on Friday. “They’re IRS workers, they’re revenue agents.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/irs-apologizes-for-inappropriately-targeting-conservative-political-groups-in-2012-election/2013/05/11/ea5d5790-ba0e-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story_2.html

Also, fire any level higher up who may have found this out but did nothing immediately - if so.

On June 29, 2011, Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the [inspector general’s] report....Lerner instructed agents to change the criteria for flagging groups “immediately,” the report says.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/irs-shoots-itself-foot-then-reloads

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kick Dawson Leery May 2013 #1
Courage in Profiles? pinboy3niner May 2013 #2
lol DrDan May 2013 #4
I know, but now the President is outraged... WhaTHellsgoingonhere May 2013 #3
Well... cynatnite May 2013 #5
The shoe is on the other foot. liberal N proud May 2013 #6
if you have done nothing wrong hfojvt May 2013 #7
Going by that reasoning, premium May 2013 #9
my "reasoning" hfojvt May 2013 #10
And yet, Pres. Obama signed the renewal of the Patriot Act. premium May 2013 #12
"Conservatives handing out money..." sofa king May 2013 #8
They need to fire the IRS workers Life Long Dem May 2013 #11
The issue is that they were caught profiling Xyzse May 2013 #13
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