We're not the fools they think we are

We didn't fall for the video excuse for the Benghazi attack, and we're not falling for the narrative that a couple of rogue IRS employees in Cincinnati were behind the targeting of Tea Party, pro-life and pro-Israel groups.

We know better:

'Did [your supervisor] give you any indication of the need for the search [for tea party groups], any more context?' one IRS witness was asked in a closed-door interview.

'He told me that Washington, D.C., wanted some cases,' came the reply.

The employee, who said he or she was evaluating 40 such applications for tax-exempt status from conservative organizations at the time, said 'some went to Washington. D.C. ... I sent seven.'

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'[The] allegation has been made, I think as you have seen in lots of press reports, that there were two rogue agents in Cincinnati that are sort of responsible for all of the issues that we have been talking about today.,' the investigator noted. 'What do you think about those allegations?''It's impossible.,' the employee replied. 'As an agent we are controlled by many, many people.  We have to submit many, many reports.  So the chance of two agents being rogue and doing things like that could never happen.'Asked whether the problem 'was originated in and contained in the Cincinnati office,' as some Obama administration officials in Washington have claimed, the agent replied that 'I still hear people saying we were low level employees, so we were lower than dirt, according to people in D.C. So, take it for what it is.''They were basically throwing us underneath the bus.'

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Another Cincinnati IRS employee, whom the oversight committee described Sunday as 'more senior,' told the investigators that he or she applied for another job in July 2010 out of a desire to avoid connections with a program that targeted certain Americans because of their political beliefs.

'It was the whole tea party. It was the whole picture,' the senior agent said.

'I mean, it was the micromanagement. The fact that the subject area was extremely sensitive and it was something that I didn't want to be associated with.'

And just how radical is Susan Anderson, wife of former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman?

This radical. 

I know one thing.  LITD is completely vindicated in its use of terms like "Freedom-Hater" and "post-America."

This is only different in degree from what has been going on for fifty years.  The number of Democrats, both in politics and among the voting public, who object to any of this is dwindling to the point of being negligible.

This is no time to keep one's head down and shut up.