http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/politics/irs-official-who-refused-to-testify-is-put-on-leave.html?hp&_r=0
Following the IRS scandal from a couple of weeks ago, Lois Lerner was suspended yesterday after refusing to testify before a member of the House. An investigation of the IRS harassing conservative groups is still going on. Though, Lerner was merely suspended for the time being, many other IRS officials and senators have asked for her resignation. Two other people have already lost their job because of the scandal. Steven Miller, the acting commissioner was let go, and Lerner’s supervisor, Joseph H. Grant, is retiring. Lerner claims that she had no prior knowledge of scandal, but the Lawmakers are continuing to interrogate her.
Although I think it's about time, something was done to make amends to the scandal, I find it a bit unfair to pin it all on Lerner. Whether of not she had any knowledge of the scandal beforehand, she's surely not the only one left to blame. Yet, she was the one who had to apologize to the Tea Party.
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