This will surprise nobody...She is a proud lawbreaker.

Quote:Employers won’t hire her. She’s been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.” Federal agents have guarded her house because of death threats. And she’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself against accusations she orchestrated a coverup in a scandal that has come to represent everything Americans hate about the IRS.

Lois Lerner is toxic — and she knows it. But she refuses to recede into anonymity or beg for forgiveness for her role in the IRS tea party-targeting scandal.

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Lerner said in her first press interview since the scandal broke 16 months ago. “I’m proud of my career and the job I did for this country.”

Lerner, who sat down with POLITICO in an exclusive two-hour session, has been painted in one dimension: as a powerful bureaucrat scheming with the Obama administration to cripple right-leaning nonprofits. Interviews with about 20 of her colleagues, friends and critics and a survey of emails and other IRS documents, however, reveal a much more complicated figure than the caricature she’s become in the public eye.

The portrait that emerges shows Lerner is, indeed, fierce, unapologetic and perhaps even tone-deaf when she says things that show her Democratic leanings. She had a quick temper and may have intimidated co-workers who could have helped her out of this mess. It’s easy to see how Republicans have seized on the image of a devilish figure cracking down on conservative nonprofits. [...]

“Regardless of whatever else happens, I know I did the best I could under the circumstances and am not sorry for anything I did,” the 63-year-old said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/lo...11181.html

Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

Can we count all the white house travel folks Hillary had fired back in the 90's on that list.... Shame really...

(09-22-2014 04:43 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

Can we count all the white house travel folks Hillary had fired back in the 90's on that list.... Shame really...

Or the US Attorneys Bush blew out for no good reason.

Or do two wrongs make a right in your book?

She's a *****.

And I don't want to waste any time on this pointless exercise, but I will post this from wiki anyway:

Quote:In 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report on Travelgate. He sought no charges against her, saying that she had made factually false statements but there was insufficient evidence her statements were either knowingly false or that she understood that her statements led to the firings.

Guess discrimination against Tea Parties is something she does not consider
wrong because they are not in protected status.
She expressed gratitude toward her legal counsel, that we paid for.
Lives in a $2.5 million dollar house and gets $100,000 in retirement. Has federal
agents protecting her.

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

How is she great?

(09-22-2014 05:32 PM)bevotex Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

How is she great?

Don't hold your breath

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

The line of great American civil service leaders is so long that the next person to join will be #1.

There is no such thing as a great American civil service leader.

(09-22-2014 04:53 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  And I don't want to waste any time on this pointless exercise, but I will post this from wiki anyway:

Quote:In 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report on Travelgate. He sought no charges against her, saying that she had made factually false statements but there was insufficient evidence her statements were either knowingly false or that she understood that her statements led to the firings.

Let's see here, she "made factually false statements" and that's supposed to exonerate her?

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

Great civil service leaders target political groups from opposing parties?

Great civil service leaders plead the fifth rather than let the truth come out?

Great civil service leaders don't follow policy by making hard copies of all email?

Great civil service leaders break the rules and send confidential IRS info out on personal email accounts?

Great civil service leaders quit when the going gets tough?

I'm guessing you didn't really mean it when you called her a great civil service leader. What you probably meant to call her was a great democrat political operative.

(09-22-2014 04:51 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:43 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

Can we count all the white house travel folks Hillary had fired back in the 90's on that list.... Shame really...

Or the US Attorneys Bush blew out for no good reason.

Or do two wrongs make a right in your book?

Said the man who implied the GOP does this more than dems....

Weren't those five or so US Attorneys actually appointees.
They were not there for life like the Supreme Court, correct.

That sounds like a last statement. She is going to kill herself.

She can redeem Herself by becoming one of the first Boots on the Ground in Syria !

(09-22-2014 11:42 PM)Claw Wrote:  That sounds like a last statement. She is going to kill herself.

Probably the most honorable thing she would have ever done if she did.

(09-22-2014 10:02 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:51 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:43 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 04:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Just another in the long line of great American civil service leaders destroyed by the GOP.

Shame really.

Can we count all the white house travel folks Hillary had fired back in the 90's on that list.... Shame really...

Or the US Attorneys Bush blew out for no good reason.

Or do two wrongs make a right in your book?

Said the man who implied the GOP does this more than dems....

Who was that? Sorry, but I never made or implied such a claim. And never would. Both sides are equally culpable.

(09-22-2014 10:26 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Weren't those five or so US Attorneys actually appointees.
They were not there for life like the Supreme Court, correct.

I believe so, but IIRC, the issue was that they were basically let go because they didn't follow political marching orders. And I think they were all pretty much appointed by Bush to begin with.