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IRS head Steven Miller: 'Mistakes were made'

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Posted by Fred 2013-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Mistakes were made, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation,"

No screening or auditing statistics, no internal legal opinions or oversight? Never thought it would develop as an issue? No external [ non-agency] pressure to act.... right? Nobody ever complained? How about you take this here box and empty your desk. Bernice and Fred.... will see you to the door.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-15 02:25|| 2013-05-15 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation

Examples?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-05-15 06:31|| 2013-05-15 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Some people call him the Space Cowboy.

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-05-15 10:15|| 2013-05-15 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 In grammar, said a reporter about another issue, that tense is called "past perfect exonerative".

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2013-05-15 12:41|| 2013-05-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 "in no way due to any political or partisan motivation" -- except that we have Obama making noises about using IRS audits against his opponents, we have Senators writing letters to the IRS demanding the IRS act against the Tea Parties by name, IRS documents saying they focused on groups with names involving "Tea Party", "patriots", and "9/12", AND we have contemporaneous leftist groups sailing through the same process without hinderance.

And the cherry on top is the unequal application of FOIA fees by the EPA, the Labor Department descending on Romney supporter VanderSloot, and the apparent full-federal-press on the founder of True the Vote.

In short, we have no reason to believe this lying sack of excrement.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-05-15 14:16|| 2013-05-15 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Mistakes? Mistake is putting the new fireman's ballcap in with the socks. I'm wondering how the RICO laws would apply; unreasonable search and seizure PMITA Federal Prison size shit.

Mistakes - screw you.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-05-15 17:30|| 2013-05-15 17:30|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL MM.....

He blamed it on the Pompatus of Revenue.

Posted by Shipman 2013-05-15 17:46|| 2013-05-15 17:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Mistakes were made: that would be the 16th amendment.

Posted by KBK 2013-05-15 21:55|| 2013-05-15 21:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Go after the head of the business, not the workers who actually omitted the crimes, we need the workers for later when the head has been thoroughly blamed, and quit.

THEN, the workers have a free rein.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-15 22:15|| 2013-05-15 22:15|| Front Page Top

#10 'Mistakes were made'

"Mistakes" are always made. That's why you keep government as small as possible, so that the damage remains minimal. It doesn't matter who's given the power, Big Government yields Big Mistakes.

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