IRS Official Lois Lerner Called Lawyer To Plant Targeting Question

[boston bean]

Celia Roady, a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Morgan Lewis and a member of the the IRS’ Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities, said she got a call from Lois Lerner, head of the IRS’ tax-exempt organizations division, on May 9, the day before Lerner appeared on a panel at the American Bar Association tax section’s annual meeting.

“On May 9, I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the ABA Tax Section’s Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks," Roady said in the statement, obtained by TPM. "I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/irs-official-lois-lerner-called-lawyer-to-plant

[notadmblnd]

1. So it was a plant!

I'd put money on it, this is another contrived Republican scandal.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2850558

Sp who did Lois Lerner do this for?

[rbrnmw]

3. She was a Dubya appointee nt

[notadmblnd]

5. I wonder how close to KKKarl Rove or the Koch brothers she is.

I also wonder about her involvement in liberl targets during the Bush administration?

[rbrnmw]

6. I am very interested in the answers to these questions

Hopefully someone can get them for us.

[Seeking Serenity]

10. No, she wasn't. She's in the civil service. (n/t)

[rbrnmw]

12. I have a link

Lerner was appointed as head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division during the Bush administration, in 2006. She served as director the IRS Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements Division for four years before that. A graduate of Boston’s Northeastern University and Western New England College of Law in Springfield, Mass., Lerner began her legal career as a staff attorney in the Department of Justice’s criminal division before joining the Federal Election Commission as an assistant general counsel in 1981. She spent 20 years at the FEC, where she was appointed head of the Enforcement Division in 1986 and then acting general counsel for six months in 2001.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/14/irs-scandal-s-central-figure-lois-lerner-described-as-apolitical.html

[Omar4Dems]

13. Oops.

nt

[tritsofme]

15. The commissioner and chief counsel are the only political appointees at the IRS.

That article is just noting the timeframe she got her civil service jobs.

[Berlum]

16. This whole thing reeks. It's just another Republican lying screw job on America

[dkf]

4. They had 3 IRS agents on site to answer questions. It went beyond one person's disclosure.

Some group within the IRS orchestrated it.

[notadmblnd]

7. more

Celia Roady, a prominent tax lawyer in the firm of Morgan Lewis, said she was called personally by Lois Lerner, the IRS head of the tax exempt division, on May 9.

"I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the Tax Section's Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks," Roady said in a statement to U.S. News and World Report. "I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question."

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller admitted to House lawmakers Friday during an oversight hearing of the controversy that the question was a plant. The IRS was aware of a forthcoming Treasury Department Inspector General Report that would condemn the targeting of groups applying for 501(c)(4) status if they contained the words "tea party," "patriot" or "9/12."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/17/exclusive-woman-who-asked-irss-lois-lerner-scandal-breaking-question-details-plant

[Kingofalldems]

17. Scandal starting to fall apart. Too bad.

[zbdent]

2. Yet another prime example of the "liberally-biased media" covering Obama's ass

[ret5hd]

8. So what was the question?

[Berlum]

9. Something mighty damn STANKY about this Republican-orchestrated so-called "scandal"

[warrior1]

11. I sent this to Rachel

[blogslut]

14. kick

[Kingofalldems]

18. Kick this one