IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups

Washington Post ^ | May 13, 2013 | Juliet Eilperin and Zachary A. Goldfarb

[Seizethecarp]

Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea party-affiliated groups.

IRS employees in Cincinnati also told conservatives seeking the status of “social welfare” groups that a task force in Washington was overseeing their applications, according to interviews with the activists.

Lois G. Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt groups for the IRS, told reporters on Friday the “absolutely inappropriate” actions were undertaken by “front-line people” working in Cincinnati to target groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their names.

In one instance, however, Ron Bell, an IRS employee, informed an attorney representing a conservative group focused on voter fraud that the application was under review in Washington. On several other occasions, IRS officials in D.C. and California sent detailed questionaires to conservative groups asking more than a dozen questions about their voter outreach and other activities, according to the documents.

“For the IRS to say it was some low-level group in Cincinnati is simply false,” said Cleta Mitchell, a partner in the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP who sought to communicate with IRS headquarters about the delay in granting tax-exempt status to True the Vote.

[JRandomFreeper]

As do I.

Comparing the current administration to Stalin and Hitler is to overstate things a lot. That is my point.

The hundreds of millions killed by opressive governments around the world are real, too. We're not there yet.

/johnny

[DB]

This has legs now...

“This was the result of a few low level employees at one office” is no longer operable.

The only question now is, how well did they obscure the trail to the White House?

[PA Engineer]

In one instance, however, Ron Bell, an IRS employee, informed an attorney representing a conservative group focused on voter fraud that the application was under review in Washington.

There are so many culpable parties in this coup. This came strait from the top.

[null and void]

The hundreds of millions killed by oppressive governments around the world are real, too. We're not there yet.

Keep in mind that Bill Ayers, just a guy in Obama's neighborhood, just a guy he barely knew, in whose living room Obama launched his political career, openly advocated murdering 25,000,000 Americans, simply because it would be easier than attempting to "re-educate" them.

No, we're not there, yet.

[FlyingEagle]

/johnny,
I believe we have commented with each other before on the comparison: this “progressive” government has people that go to work every day with a real hit list of people to kill in other countries, including Americans; the freedom to kill unborn babies within our nation has just been handed to 15 year old children. The second amendment effectively now does not exists in several large cities and states, the Homeland Security is arming itself with billions of rounds of hollow point ammo; there is seemingly never a truthful action by this government, all government action is cloaked while diminishing freedom and life and liberty. Years and years of record unemployment and recession, now IRS tea party attacks, AP “free” press wire taps - personally I think the republic is on the feather edge of collapse. How bad do you think things have to get before this scandalous cabal of nationalist socialist Marxists completely destroy our constitutional republic? Or, is it already gone and I should just accept it and tone done the hyperbole?

If one ponders the events of the last five years, it is entirely understandable why the Russian people accepted Stalin and why German people accepted Hitler, yet I am still astonished to see the Americans accept this criminal tyranny. Lies and Lies and more lies.

[JRandomFreeper]

When our government kills hundreds of millions, then it's not hyperbole anymore.

That's not happening.

There are problems. Big problems. Overstating them doesn't help you make your point.

/johnny

[Osage Orange]

Please.....anyone with a brain knows it goes right to someone in the White House....or someone surely connected there.

Axelrod....Rahm....are just two slimeballs that could / would make that happen.........

[Graewoulf]

Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.

[lodi90]

Did you see the Compost just reported the White Hut consul was told on April 22 about the investigation? That is a major development I think.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear I.R.S. ‘members’/federal employees/members of an AFGE UNION,

In regards to the discovered/unconvered/found out/snitched/leaked/left memo on somebody’s desk information concerning investigations of Conservative political organizations and individual Americans.

I wish you all the following:
May the grandchildren that you may have or do presently have, grow to an adult age, and realize the criminal acts you performed, and have party affiliations in opposition to the one that you have sold your souls. May they marry the opposite of what you wish/hope/require them to marry, in either social status, IQ, employment status, or nationality.

I pray that ye view all the above, from your particular Club FED!

Take that!

[hondact200]

saul alinsky whom is in hades is probably dancing a jig with his buddy Lucifer.
Saul - Look lucifer that darkie has been able to cause more havoc in 5 years than at anytime else in the the history of the US. Gee my book must be a great Bible for the radicals.
Lucifer - come now Saul, there is a problem the US Constitution is a much shorter read than your stupid crap book. And it has stood the test of time and unfortunately that darkie will go down in history as a failure, and will be in jail soon enough. So saul, you are now banned to the farthest reaches of hades and you keep company with Hitler, stalin, Lenin, mao, Pol Pot and so many others whom thought that have it made in hades. Remember Hades is my domain, and God is still in control on earth and you guys always forget that he can and will smote you down when you least expect it.