IRS deliberately targeted conservatives before 2012 election...but Miller says not partisan, not illegal!

When even MSLSD can see that the IRS deliberately chose not to fess up to the targeting of conservative organizations before the 2012 Presidential Election, you know something's extremely wrong...

WeeklyStandard: NBC's Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election:



The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What's going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when -- after these officials are briefed by the IG that this is going on, they don't disclose it. In fact, the commissioner sent a letter to Congress in September on this subject and did not reveal this. Imagine if we -- if you can -- what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different."

Likely so...

Yet, the absent-minded, outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller not only doesn't believe that partisanship was a motivating factor, but said before a House hearing this morning that the IRS's targeting of conservatives "is absolutely not illegal." Who the hell is he kidding? Un-freakin-believable...



With all the lies and squirming this guy did today, he should be the FIRST to go to jail! So, what about it, Speaker Boehner?

ADDENDUM: GOP Rep. Mike Kelly received a standing ovation after laying into this fool...

"I am more concerned today than I was before, and the fact that you all can do just about anything you want to anybody? You know, you can put anybody out of business that you want anytime you want. ... You talked about you're a horribly run organization? You're on the other side of the fence, you're not given that excuse. And when the IRS comes in, you're not allowed to be shoddy. You're not allowed to be run horribly. You're not allowed to make mistakes. You're not allowed to do one damn thing that doesn't come in compliance. If you do, you're held responsible right then. I just think the American people have seen what's going on right now in their government. This is absolutely an overreach, and this is an outrage for all of America."