It’s amazing how much this scumbag Miller doesn’t know. I say we water-board the bastard.
Truth is powerful! Great job Rep. Mike Kelly!
This was great!
Rep Mike Kelly was given a standing ovation at Friday’s House hearing on IRS harassment of conservative groups.
“This is very chilling for the American people… And I don’t believe the White House just found out about this in a news report. Where you’re sitting you should be outraged but your’re not. This reconfirms everything the US public believes. Is there any question you shouldn’t have asked…. ‘What sign do you put up in your front yard?’ And this is a tax question? You can put anybody out of business anytime you want.”
Well, she was appointed as Commissioner of the Tax-Exempt and Government Entitles Division of the IRS in 2009. Before that, she was the deputy commissioner, and before that, she was Division Counsel/Associate Chief Counsel for that division. She began her career with the IRS in 1982, in the Tax Litigation Division. She is a 1979 graduate of Yale and a 1982 graduate of Georgetown Law — which means that (1) she was obviously aware of just how unconstitutional and wrongful the targeting scheme was and (2) she has never worked for anyone, anywhere, except for the IRS.
It’s interesting — and potentially significant — that she was put in charge of the ObamaCare IRS office. Did someone in the administration know she could be trusted to play political hardball? Was the post a reward for her service at the IRS? Whose idea was this nomination? How far up the chain was it approved?
Certainly, someone (again, whom?) liked the work she did between 2009 and 2012 at the IRS; Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner reports that she was richly rewarded:
Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.
The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harrassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.
So who was in charge of those decisions? The questions — just like all the appalling administration news — just keeps coming.