By LAUREN FRENCH | 4/7/14 5:02 PM EDT



The House Ways and Means Committee will vote this week to formally ask the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against former IRS employee Lois Lerner, an official at the center of Republican probes of the matter.

The committee will mark up a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday accusing Lerner of committing three crimes relating to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status, a Republican staffer said.

The controversy erupted in May when Lerner admitted the agency given extra scrutiny to tea party groups - an acknowledgement that has cost a handful of agency employees their jobs, including its commissioner, and prompted a series of congressional investigations.

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This action is separate of plans from House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to hold a contempt vote against the former exempt organizations division head on Thursday.

Lerner has become the focus of congressional efforts to investigate what happened at the IRS, with Republicans accusing her of sharing private taxpayer data and obsessing over the Citizens United Supreme Court case.

The letter to Holder will contain confidential taxpayer information so the markup will be held in private with only Ways and Means members present. Democrats will be able to offer amendments.

If lawmakers pass the letter out of committee, it will fall on the Department of Justice to select if it would pursue criminal charges. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice did not immediately return a request for comment.


http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/ho...l#ixzz2yGiHe1NO

Wait! I thought the President had already ruled on this case? I recall his ruling to BOR, something he said, "not a smidgeon of guilt".

Silly republicans, why do they suppose ANY Dems or the "Justice" Department would rule any differently?

They'd better be prepared to go this alone or not even start because the morals of our Country's lefty politicians and the judicial are nil.

This one is only CLOSE.

It should read that Democrats always want to WIN AN ARGUMENT even if it means trashing the relationship,

But Republicans understand it's always better to LOSE AN ARGUMENT if there's any hope for the relationship.

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This one is only CLOSE.

It should read that Democrats always want to WIN AN ARGUMENT even if it means trashing the relationship,

But Republicans understand it's always better to LOSE AN ARGUMENT if there's any hope for the relationship.

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Dude, this isn't marriage counseling. There is actual criminality going on here. Losing the argument here means the IRS will be a political tool for whomever party is in power.

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I got something in my "Inbox" from HW yesterday saying it was "Critically Important" that I help him create "a well-funded RNC"

This is the first election where I do not like the RNC.

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The crux of the matter: The House Ways and Means Committee will vote this week to formally ask the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges

They can ask and ask and ask, but Holder gets to decide if charges are filed. Eric Holder, the most crooked and unprincipled AG since Janet Reno.

Ask away.

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"Are people really incensed that someone is in "contempt of Congress"? Why not just focus on proving she mis-used the IRS for the political benefit of Barack Obama, which she clearly did?"



"And that brings us to the real parties who ought to be found in contempt - of the Constitution and of the American people.

We'll start with Obama himself, who arrogantly declared that the IRS scandal involves "not even a smidgen of corruption" even as the person in the middle of it was taking the Fifth so as not to incriminate herself. And then the news media, which decided last summer that the scandal had "fizzled" and that it was no longer interested. Now that it's clear the IRS was absolutely harassing conservative groups, and that Lois Lerner was one of the driving forces behind it, the scandal still gets almost no coverage in the MSM because they've settled on the narrative that it's not a scandal and that's that."


some common sense from Herman Cain from...
http://www.caintv.com/house-vote-pending-to-hold-loi