The Trump administration has no plans to charge former IRS official Lois Lerner over her role in the Tea Party targeting scandal, the Justice Department said Friday in response to calls by Republican lawmakers to revisit the case.

In a letter to the lawmakers, the Justice Department said that "reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence."

This past April, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., had asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take a "fresh look" at the case.

Despite numerous hearings and inquiries into the tough treatment of conservative groups by the tax agency during the 2010 and 2012 elections, the Obama Justice Department had announced in 2015 that no one at the IRS would be prosecuted. They said at the time that investigators had "found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution."

The Republicans who requested a fresh look at the case were disappointed in the Trump DOJ's response.

"This is a terrible decision," Brady said. "It sends the message that the same legal, ethical, and constitutional standards we all live by do not apply to Washington political appointees."

Lerner headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt groups. An inspector general's report in 2013 found that the IRS had singled out conservative and tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Many had their applications delayed for months and years. Some were asked improper questions about their donors and even their religious practices.

Much of the agency's leadership, including Lerner, resigned or retired over the scandal.
Brady said appointees "will now have the green light to target Americans for their political beliefs and mislead investigators without ever being held accountable for their lawlessness."

Lerner and her attorney have long maintained she did nothing wrong.

In 2014, the Ways and Means Committee voted to refer Lerner to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution.

Republicans on the committee said she may have violated the constitutional rights of conservative groups, misled investigators and risked exposing confidential taxpayer information.

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For fuck's sake. If she did nothing wrong in the letter of the laws, at least she should admit that she was wrong in the spirit.

Who the hell other than a liberal would justify an abuse of authority like this?

If the government won't chase their own when they do wrong, the people should.

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In a letter to the lawmakers, the Justice Department said that "reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence."

OK
Now go after Hillary. Focus. All available resources. Get DWS to start talking...

unfuckingbelievable...

exactly how much do you need to do to the American people before you can get charged with a crime?

if anyone was the poster child for governmental abuse and targeting people because of their political opinions, its Slo Lerner.

But I guess since the DoJ says its OK to target and discriminate people based on political affiliation, then is OK for me to do the same thing

Totally asinine move period!


First Trump sez Hildabeast can skate. And now his DOJ bows out on Lerner while her boss Koskinen still hasn't been purged with prejudice. Sickening....

simply reinforces my belief that Jeff Sessions is a democrat lackey

he's no different or better than Loretta Lynch

biggest disappointment of all of the Trump appointments

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In a letter to the lawmakers, the Justice Department said that "reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence."

Well, of course it's not appropriate....The bulk of the evidence is not available due to the fact that they (IRS) destroyed all of the hard drives containing Lois Lerner's PST (email) files!

That sucks.

What does one have to do in D.C. to actually get into real trouble?

Who watches the watcher? That is the real problem. There is no one watching the feds. They are the top of the pyramid and resist oversight. Basically, they are autonomous entities.

Proof positive once again that our legal system treats a guilty rich person better than an innocent poor person.

She takes the fifth, gets immunity,fingers the DNC and we have a shit storm witch hunt.

Not that they all don't belong in jail but it would be a mess.

We would look like a banana republic arresting our political enemies.

They acted pragmatically.

Plus they are looking to the midterms and next cycle.

Nothing would get the liberals out in droves than if we put the head Dems in jail.

If no further investigation or prosecution, can we just have Seal Team 6 take care of her?

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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In a letter to the lawmakers, the Justice Department said that "reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence."

OK
Now go after Hillary. Focus. All available resources. Get DWS to start talking...

Anyone that thinks anyone from the last administration or anything to do with Hillary will see any sort of prosecution or negative impact from their corruption is out of their mind.

Nothing is going to happen to any of them, nothing!

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Originally posted by 46and2:
That sucks.

What does one have to do in D.C. to actually get into real trouble?

be a conservative republican.

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a conservative republican

if there's more than 10 in D.C. who are legitimately both republican and conservative, I'd be surprised. there's a bunch of pretenders, and liars, and half asses. but conservatives?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
simply reinforces my belief that Jeff Sessions is a democrat lackey

he's no different or better than Loretta Lynch

biggest disappointment of all of the Trump appointments

Yeah, I'm really starting to wonder what is going on.
Disappointed doesn't begin to cover it for me.

Sessions seems to be afraid of his own shadow.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
If no further investigation or prosecution, can we just have Seal Team 6 take care of her?

I think thats an outstanding idea....pay per view even

Laws are for the little people, Hard to drain the swamp when you can't even pick off the low hanging fruit.

Inside/outside beltway

Inside beltway = no crime
Outside beltway = rot in jail

The king is dead. Long live the king.