Conservative Hispanic Groups Targeted In IRS Scandal

fox news ^ | 5/16/2013 | By Andrew O'Reilly

[tobyhill]

The Internal Revenue Service scandal involving the apparently unjustified targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has also hit home with the Hispanic community.

George Rodriguez, former president of the San Antonio Tea Party, said that when the organization applied for non-profit status, leaders were intimidated by IRS workers with excessive paperwork and meddling questions.

“They asked us all sorts of things that were out of the norm,” Rodriguez, now head of the conservative South Texas Alliance, told Fox News Latino. “We knew these questions were not the norm and we had our suspicions about them.”

[griswold3]

Did attacking a ‘protected’ group even though they were a sumsector of a much hated entity, cross the line?

[plain talk]

I would like to see the statistics on conservative groups vs liberal groups that underwent this added scrutiny.

Then I would like to see more focus on the questions asked of these conservative groups such as membership lists, resumes, etc That part has been cast aside. To me that is the real story. This was an obvious fishing exercise to get data for nefarious purposes and place in some database? I want to know who all got access to this membership data. I think this is the deeper scandal that goes beyond the IRS. This is reminiscent of the FBI files scandals

[uncommonsense]

"I would like to see the statistics on conservative groups vs liberal groups that underwent this added scrutiny."

According to the IG report - 0% liberal, 100% conservative - about 500.

[plain talk]

Thanks ... but are you sure? They had a process to investigate non-profit groups to see whether they are eligible or not. This is a normal IRS function that should have always been going on ... like auditing. THEN .. they went after these conservative groups, Tea Party, etc. These new reviews were 100% conservative / 0% liberal. I get that.

But what I am asking about the composite percentages. Unless they are saying that zero liberal groups were audited in total. I would find that hard to believe and I doubt that is the case here.

[Democrat_media]

Obama’s IRS threatened startup conservative groups with perjury if they couldn't answer books of impossible and inappropriate questions . Many groups quit that process as was the IRS’s intention. all this to rig the election for Obama and the democrat senate. democrats/socialists stole the election , stole the presidency and stole the Senate

This was tyranny, oppressive , illegal , unconstitutional.

Obama must be impeached and imprisoned . I know you don't want that

A true conservative is for the IRS not even existing in its supposed function inf the first place

[Durbin]

That’s racist!!!!!!

[plain talk]

I know you don't want that. A true conservative is for the IRS not even existing in its supposed function inf the first place

I would walk over hot coals to watch those impeachment hearings. :-) Since the IRS DOES exist any future desire to get rid of it is kind of irrelevant right now

[uncommonsense]

"But what I am asking about the composite percentages. Unless they are saying that zero liberal groups were audited in total. I would find that hard to believe and I doubt that is the case here."

Technically - it wasn't about "auditing", it was about approving the creation of a conservative organization. About 500.

So far, the information published - there was 1 identified pro-Isreal organization that got caught up in the dragnet. Pro-Isreal terms were on the BOLO list (Be On the Look Out).

[plain talk]

Thanks. As I understood they filtered applications and selected some for more detailed review. Analogous to auditing in that a subset is singled out. If you look at the link of IRS speeches I posted (some go back to 2008) I think similar effors have been going on a while. Filtering based on tea party ttype names is what was new and these reviews should have been in addition to whatever selective reviews have been going on for years.

Hopefully our guys will get broad stats and info on their review practices. everyone is focusing on this latest volly of reviews but this has probably been going on for years

[uncommonsense]

"As I understood they filtered applications and selected some for more detailed review."

As more info is brought to major media outlets, the IRS conservative review process was designed to stonewall ALL profiled applications so that their organizations would burn through all of their start up funds and peter out.

There were massive delays in the initial IRS response back to the applicant... then successive rounds of increasingly intrusive questions that guaranteed no "Tea Party type" organization would ever get off the ground - ever...

There are a LOT of details here on FR, which proves the targeted attack on only those organizations opposed by the ObaMao administration - verbatim: Tea Party, Fiscal Responsibility, Less Government, Pro-Isreal, Teach Constitution or Bill of Rights...

[uncommonsense]

Here's the link to the IG report:

IRS Inspector General Report on Tax-Exempt Scrutiny of Political Organizations

This is from the report:

Figure 3: Criteria for Potential Political Cases (June 2011)

• “Tea Party,” “Patriots” or “9/12 Project” is referenced in the case file
• Issues include government spending, government debt or taxes
• Education of the public by advocacy/lobbying to “make America a better place to live”
• Statement in the case file criticize how the country is being run