Tinker:
It is now just a matter of time before the entire world reconcile that the
" President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history."
Barack Obama administration to be very much like just another run of the mill politician that has always screwed over the American citizens all day long. No new change what so every.
That the American way of government is Tweedledum talking about Tweedledee with the generous help of the fourth estate and TV Networks.
Welcome to the real world Mr & Mrs. America because president Barack Obama by any other name is still a sleazy politician, and nothing like a rose at all. And of course color had nothing to do with it.
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Star witness to stay mum for House hearing on IRS
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May 22, 4:00 AM (ET)By ALAN FRAM and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Sports
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It is now just a matter of time before the entire world reconcile that the
" President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history."
Barack Obama administration to be very much like just another run of the mill politician that has always screwed over the American citizens all day long. No new change what so every.
That the American way of government is Tweedledum talking about Tweedledee with the generous help of the fourth estate and TV Networks.
Welcome to the real world Mr & Mrs. America because president Barack Obama by any other name is still a sleazy politician, and nothing like a rose at all. And of course color had nothing to do with it.
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Star witness to stay mum for House hearing on IRS
Email this StoryMay 22, 4:00 AM (ET)By ALAN FRAM and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the
Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will
apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.
IRS official Lois Lerner will invoke her constitutional right to not answer questions on Wednesday at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, her lawyer told the panel in a letter.
Lerner triggered the recent IRS uproar at a legal conference nearly two weeks ago, when she revealed that the agency had subjected tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to extra scrutiny during parts of the 2010 and 2012 election seasons. She also apologized for the actions.
Lerner, 62, an attorney who joined the IRS in 2001, heads the unit that decides whether groups qualify for the status. She has come under fire from members of both parties, including Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, who said in an interview Tuesday that she should lose her job.
In Lerner's absence, Wednesday's spotlight will be on another witness: Neal Wolin, the Treasury Department's deputy secretary.
J. Russell George, a Treasury inspector general, has said he told Wolin in mid-2012 that he was investigating the IRS' targeting of conservative groups, a report that was released last week. That means Wolin was the highest-ranking Treasury official to have known about the probe during last year's elections, making him a focus of interest for lawmakers.
"What did you know and when? Who did you tell?" Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a senior member of the Oversight Committee, said Tuesday of what he hopes to learn from Wolin.
Lerner's attorney, William W. Taylor III, has requested that she be excused from Wednesday's hearing, writing in the letter that forcing her to appear "would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her." But the committee has subpoenaed her and panel members say they expect her to attend.
"She better be there. We're planning on it," Chaffetz said.
In writing that Lerner would use her Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate herself, Taylor noted that the Justice Department has started an investigation into the IRS controversy. He also referred to a letter she received last week from Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., saying she "provided false or misleading information on four separate occasions last year" to committee queries.
Staff of the Oversight Committee questioned Lerner and other IRS officials last year after receiving complaints from Ohio tea party groups that they were being mistreated by the IRS, said Meghan Snyder, spokesman for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the committee.
In responses to the committee, Lerner didn't mention that tea party groups had ever been targeted, according to documents. Her responses included 45-page letters in May 2012 to Issa and Jordan.
Lerner also met twice in early 2012 with staff from the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee to discuss the issue, according to a timeline constructed by committee staff. The timeline said she didn't mention at either meeting that conservative groups had been targeted.
Lerner's revelation and apology at the May 10 legal conference came in response to a question that IRS officials later acknowledged they had planted with an audience member. Lerner's disclosure came days before George, the inspector general, released his report detailing the IRS' actions.
George's report found that in June 2011, Lerner discovered that her unit was searching for organizations with words like "tea party" or "patriots" in their applications and subjecting them to tougher questions. She ordered the initial tea party criteria to be scrapped, but it later evolved to include groups that promoted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the report said. Lawmakers are curious about why the practice didn't stop entirely.
A career civil servant who has run the division since late 2005, Lerner has not been disciplined for her role, IRS officials said. But with President Barack Obama demanding that IRS officials be held accountable for the problem, Acting Commissioner Steven Miller and another top agency official have announced their departures in recent days and many lawmakers believe more heads should roll.
"If Miller had to lose his job, I don't think he should just be the lone person to go," Cummings said.
George and Douglas Shulman, the former IRS commissioner who headed the agency while it was targeting conservative groups, are also scheduled to testify Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Shulman told the Senate Finance Committee that he learned in the spring of 2012 about his agency's targeting of conservatives and George's probe. He said he didn't tell lawmakers or officials at Treasury - of which the IRS is part - because he only had sketchy information about the situation, was told it was being handled and believed it proper to let George's office conduct its investigation.
"Sitting there then and sitting here today, I think I made the right decision, which is to let the inspector general get to the bottom of it, chase down all the facts and then make his findings public," Shulman said.
-----------------------------IRS official Lois Lerner will invoke her constitutional right to not answer questions on Wednesday at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, her lawyer told the panel in a letter.
Lerner triggered the recent IRS uproar at a legal conference nearly two weeks ago, when she revealed that the agency had subjected tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to extra scrutiny during parts of the 2010 and 2012 election seasons. She also apologized for the actions.
Lerner, 62, an attorney who joined the IRS in 2001, heads the unit that decides whether groups qualify for the status. She has come under fire from members of both parties, including Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, who said in an interview Tuesday that she should lose her job.
In Lerner's absence, Wednesday's spotlight will be on another witness: Neal Wolin, the Treasury Department's deputy secretary.
J. Russell George, a Treasury inspector general, has said he told Wolin in mid-2012 that he was investigating the IRS' targeting of conservative groups, a report that was released last week. That means Wolin was the highest-ranking Treasury official to have known about the probe during last year's elections, making him a focus of interest for lawmakers.
"What did you know and when? Who did you tell?" Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a senior member of the Oversight Committee, said Tuesday of what he hopes to learn from Wolin.
Lerner's attorney, William W. Taylor III, has requested that she be excused from Wednesday's hearing, writing in the letter that forcing her to appear "would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her." But the committee has subpoenaed her and panel members say they expect her to attend.
"She better be there. We're planning on it," Chaffetz said.
In writing that Lerner would use her Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate herself, Taylor noted that the Justice Department has started an investigation into the IRS controversy. He also referred to a letter she received last week from Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., saying she "provided false or misleading information on four separate occasions last year" to committee queries.
Staff of the Oversight Committee questioned Lerner and other IRS officials last year after receiving complaints from Ohio tea party groups that they were being mistreated by the IRS, said Meghan Snyder, spokesman for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the committee.
In responses to the committee, Lerner didn't mention that tea party groups had ever been targeted, according to documents. Her responses included 45-page letters in May 2012 to Issa and Jordan.
Lerner also met twice in early 2012 with staff from the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee to discuss the issue, according to a timeline constructed by committee staff. The timeline said she didn't mention at either meeting that conservative groups had been targeted.
Lerner's revelation and apology at the May 10 legal conference came in response to a question that IRS officials later acknowledged they had planted with an audience member. Lerner's disclosure came days before George, the inspector general, released his report detailing the IRS' actions.
George's report found that in June 2011, Lerner discovered that her unit was searching for organizations with words like "tea party" or "patriots" in their applications and subjecting them to tougher questions. She ordered the initial tea party criteria to be scrapped, but it later evolved to include groups that promoted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the report said. Lawmakers are curious about why the practice didn't stop entirely.
A career civil servant who has run the division since late 2005, Lerner has not been disciplined for her role, IRS officials said. But with President Barack Obama demanding that IRS officials be held accountable for the problem, Acting Commissioner Steven Miller and another top agency official have announced their departures in recent days and many lawmakers believe more heads should roll.
"If Miller had to lose his job, I don't think he should just be the lone person to go," Cummings said.
George and Douglas Shulman, the former IRS commissioner who headed the agency while it was targeting conservative groups, are also scheduled to testify Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Shulman told the Senate Finance Committee that he learned in the spring of 2012 about his agency's targeting of conservatives and George's probe. He said he didn't tell lawmakers or officials at Treasury - of which the IRS is part - because he only had sketchy information about the situation, was told it was being handled and believed it proper to let George's office conduct its investigation.
"Sitting there then and sitting here today, I think I made the right decision, which is to let the inspector general get to the bottom of it, chase down all the facts and then make his findings public," Shulman said.
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NEW ORLEANS — On his way to the Riverside Hilton
on Tuesday on the Tiger Tour, Les Miles undoubtedly was tempted to
detour by 2600 A.P. Tureaud or 3332 Huntlee Drive in Algiers.
Those are the locations of St. Augustine and Karr high schools, both with multiple players the Tigers are recruiting, including five-star running back Leonard Fournette of the Purple Knights.
But because of NCAA rules, head football coaches aren’t allowed to make on-campus visits during this week, so Miles had to limit himself to referring obliquely to the objects of his desire, while encouraging the faithful to talk up LSU should the occasion arise.
“If I was allowed to be in a local high school, there are certainly several I would have visited,” Miles said, drawing plenty of knowing smiles. “One would have a number of players and another would have a number of players.
“I truly can’t talk about positions, but speaking of running backs, I think it’s going work out well. He might be wearing a similar color to ours now.
The football Tigers are annual visitors to Top 10 recruiting lists, which has made them a Top 10 team for much of Miles’ eight-year tenure.
The basketball Tigers, not so much recently.
But second-year coach Johnny Jones has a six-man class rated in the Top 10 by most services. And All-SEC forward Johnny O’Bryant is returning for his junior season after bypassing the NBA draft.
“A lot of positive things are happening for us,” said Jones, whose first team at LSU went 19-12, snapping a three-year streak of losing seasons. “Raising your recruiting level is always tough, because year-in and year-out, you’re competing against some universities with a lot of resources.
“But we’ve been fortunate enough to use the connections we had coming in from Texas and locally. The excitement is definitely there again.”
You don’t get them all though.
Earlier Tuesday, highly touted junior college wide receiver D’Haquille Williams said he was decommitting from the Tigers’ Class of 2014.
And surprisingly so, Myles was OK with it.
“I’m all for it,” he said. “If a player wants to decommit but still stay interested and it’s still this early, we’ll continue to have a scholarship for him and continue to recruit him.”
Williams, who prepped at East St. John and has played a year at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College, is rated the No. 1 juco wide receiver prospect in the country.
Tuesday’s conversation was all about recruiting.
Miles would not comment on the status of suspended running back Jeremy Hill but said he was not concerned about depth at the position, even though the Tigers’ system has been based on not having a feature back.
“We’re going to be fine there,” he sad. “Alfred Blue, Kenny Hillard, Terrence Magee are really, really quality backs.
“We’ve got others we could move in there, but nobody would be better than those three.”
Miles seemed just as happy about the depth of the defensive line, despite heavy losses to the NFL there.
“We’ll take people like Anthony Johnson, Ego Ferguson, Jermauria Rasco, Jordan Allen,” he said. “Players move on, but we had eight incoming freshman who have been on campus since January and participated in spring practice. We’ll be OK.”
Guard Malik Morgan, who reportedly had asked for his release after one year with the Tigers, will be staying, Jones said.
“He’s not going anywhere,” Jones said of Morgan, who prepped at John Curtis. “Sometimes there are distractions, but Malik was tremendously excited about being at LSU in the first place, and he’s had a chance to understand the big picture.
“He’s got class people around him and close to him. We’ll always be in the positions you have to recruit guys coming in, and a lot of times, you have to recruit guys to stay as well.”
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!Miles, Jones talk about LSU future
BY TED LEWIS
Advocate sportswriter
May 21, 2013
Advocate sportswriter
May 21, 2013
Those are the locations of St. Augustine and Karr high schools, both with multiple players the Tigers are recruiting, including five-star running back Leonard Fournette of the Purple Knights.
But because of NCAA rules, head football coaches aren’t allowed to make on-campus visits during this week, so Miles had to limit himself to referring obliquely to the objects of his desire, while encouraging the faithful to talk up LSU should the occasion arise.
“If I was allowed to be in a local high school, there are certainly several I would have visited,” Miles said, drawing plenty of knowing smiles. “One would have a number of players and another would have a number of players.
“I truly can’t talk about positions, but speaking of running backs, I think it’s going work out well. He might be wearing a similar color to ours now.
The football Tigers are annual visitors to Top 10 recruiting lists, which has made them a Top 10 team for much of Miles’ eight-year tenure.
The basketball Tigers, not so much recently.
But second-year coach Johnny Jones has a six-man class rated in the Top 10 by most services. And All-SEC forward Johnny O’Bryant is returning for his junior season after bypassing the NBA draft.
“A lot of positive things are happening for us,” said Jones, whose first team at LSU went 19-12, snapping a three-year streak of losing seasons. “Raising your recruiting level is always tough, because year-in and year-out, you’re competing against some universities with a lot of resources.
“But we’ve been fortunate enough to use the connections we had coming in from Texas and locally. The excitement is definitely there again.”
You don’t get them all though.
Earlier Tuesday, highly touted junior college wide receiver D’Haquille Williams said he was decommitting from the Tigers’ Class of 2014.
And surprisingly so, Myles was OK with it.
“I’m all for it,” he said. “If a player wants to decommit but still stay interested and it’s still this early, we’ll continue to have a scholarship for him and continue to recruit him.”
Williams, who prepped at East St. John and has played a year at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College, is rated the No. 1 juco wide receiver prospect in the country.
Tuesday’s conversation was all about recruiting.
Miles would not comment on the status of suspended running back Jeremy Hill but said he was not concerned about depth at the position, even though the Tigers’ system has been based on not having a feature back.
“We’re going to be fine there,” he sad. “Alfred Blue, Kenny Hillard, Terrence Magee are really, really quality backs.
“We’ve got others we could move in there, but nobody would be better than those three.”
Miles seemed just as happy about the depth of the defensive line, despite heavy losses to the NFL there.
“We’ll take people like Anthony Johnson, Ego Ferguson, Jermauria Rasco, Jordan Allen,” he said. “Players move on, but we had eight incoming freshman who have been on campus since January and participated in spring practice. We’ll be OK.”
Jones: Morgan Staying
Guard Malik Morgan, who reportedly had asked for his release after one year with the Tigers, will be staying, Jones said.
“He’s not going anywhere,” Jones said of Morgan, who prepped at John Curtis. “Sometimes there are distractions, but Malik was tremendously excited about being at LSU in the first place, and he’s had a chance to understand the big picture.
“He’s got class people around him and close to him. We’ll always be in the positions you have to recruit guys coming in, and a lot of times, you have to recruit guys to stay as well.”
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