Posted on 05/21/2013 8:57:42 AM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner.
Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when his five-year term expired, told the Senate Finance Committee he didn't learn all the facts until he read last week's report by a Treasury inspector general confirming the targeting strategy.
In his first public remarks since the story broke, Shulman said: "I agree this is an issue that when someone spotted it, they should have brought it up the chain. And they didn't. I don't know why."
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And taxpayers paid this incompetent degenerate stooge? Probably they are still paying him a pension and benefits. The unknowing idiot should be in jail. Neighbors should shun him and his family.
He means he WILL NOT say how targeting happened.
You do not have to tell liberals to be corrupt and abuse the people by government. They know it and, why they join the government in the first place.
Exactly! “Can’t say” or WON’T say?
Mr. Schulman, may I suggest it was a failure of leadership?
When you hire nothing but Obama Voters you have to expect they will help Obama.
This administration has corrupted every agency in our Government. Every Agency.
A lying liar.
Because the order to do it CAME DOWN “the chain”.
Why would you send a complaint back “up the chain” -
“hey, I’m doing what you told me to do!”
Exactly. Must be a blip in their DNA, and they were unfortunately, for us, just born that way.
I assert that the commies have been infiltrating all these gov’t agencies for decades, and with Obama/Holder in power, they act.
It’s when you go shopping at Target’s, silly.
None of them know. They just found out about it. They cannot imagine how this could happen.
I wish they all could be thinking this while on the gallows waiting for the floor to fall beneath them.
My gaydar is up about the former IRS chief: I smell a gay male who would just love to see conservatives attacked by the IRS, in particular religious groups.
Just say it, chief - ‘I was just following orders’.
Finance panel chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and top Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah both criticized the agency and said they would investigate how and why the improper screening occurred.
From the DAILY CALLER:
However, Baucus once wrote a letter requesting that the IRS engage in that very conduct. Baucus wrote a letter to then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman dated September 28, 2010 urging the IRS to investigative nonprofit conservative groups during the Tea Party-dominated 2010 midterm elections.
“With hundreds of millions of dollars being spent in election contests by tax-exempt entities, it is time to take a fresh look at current practices and how they comport with the Internal Revenue Code’s rules for nonprofits,” Baucus wrote in the letter.
“I request that you and your agency survey major 501(c)(4), (c)(5) and (c)(6) organizations involved in political campaign activity to examine whether they are operated for the organization’s intended tax exempt purpose and to ensure that political campaign activity is not the organization’s primary activity,” Baucus wrote in the letter.
“The tax exemption given to non-profit organizations comes with a responsibility to serve the public interest and Congress has an obligation to exercise the vigorous oversight necessary to ensure they do,” Baucus said in a 2010 statement accompanying his letter.
Though Baucus identified 501 (c) (5) groups — or labor unions — as worthy of investigation, the only organizations cited in his request were conservative, pro-Republican groups.
Baucus specifically named Americans for Job Security, which is described as a “pro-Republican organization,” as a specific target for the IRS to investigate.
Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Karl Rove, and American Action Network, chaired by former Republican senator Norm Coleman, were also cited in press coverage related to Baucus’ letter as pro-Republican groups helping to elect GOP congressional candidates in 2010.
Those organizations appeared in a September 16, 2010 TIME article by writer Michael Crowley titled, “The New GOP Money Stampede.” Baucus cited that piece in his letter to the IRS.
Sounds like he’s shocked, SHOCKED, to find targeting going on here. Better round up the usual suspects.
None of these “captains” are responsible for their ship. They didn’t know where they were, where they were going, or what their crew was doing. LOL
My gaydar is up about the former IRS chief: I smell a gay male who would just love to see conservatives attacked by the IRS, in particular religious groups.
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