IRS Commissioner: Yeah, we staged that Lerner apology

As the New York Times’ Jonathan Weisman said 90 minutes into the hearing, this was one of the few really interesting revelations at today’s grilling of IRS Commissioner Steve Miller. Remember the impromptu, extemporaneous apology given by Lois Lerner a week ago at a law conference for the targeting of conservative groups, an apology that at the same time tried to minimize the scope of the violations? Yeah, that was no accident:

In other words, the IRS knew full well what the IG report would say about targeting conservative groups looking for tax-exempt status, and wanted to shape the media battlefield ahead of time. Just how did they know that? The IG could have shared that data with them, perhaps to check for accuracy; that could be part of the process. However, even if leadership only learned of these issues during some kind of check, Lerner’s apology was incredibly dishonest considering the scope of the findings in the IG report, and now we have confirmation that it was planned in advance — and set up to look extemporaneous, to boot.

What does that say about IRS leadership’s honesty and credibility?

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She apologized, which is more than Hillary Clinton did.

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She apologized, which is more than Hillary Clinton did.

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Lerner’s apology was incredibly dishonest considering the scope of the findings in the IG report, and now we have confirmation that it was planned in advance — and set up to look extemporaneous, to boot.

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The "IRS apology" ..................WORTHLESS !!

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She apologized, which is more than Hillary Clinton did.

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Hillary took "full blame" ...........that was before the Media turned on Benghazi !!

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Lerner’s apology was incredibly dishonest considering the scope of the findings in the IG report, and now we have confirmation that it was planned in advance — and set up to look extemporaneous, to boot.

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The "IRS apology" ..................WORTHLESS !!

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Her famous "What difference does it make?" statement pushed the narrative from taking responsibility and pointing it towards learning what mistakes happened and making certain that these same mistakes don't happen, again. The press ran with it.

Rand Paul said he would have fired her. She's untouchable unless she is questioned under oath. OOPS! They didn't didn't get her to swear under oath. They covered her rear for her.

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...and wanted to shape the media battlefield ahead of time.

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They did a bang up job shaping things didn't they. Even some Rats want to tar and feather them.