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What Initiated the IRS Targeting of the Tea Party?
Breitbart's The Conversation ^ | June 3, 2013 | John Sexton

Posted on 06/03/2013 1:26:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Did news coverage of a Tea Party group launching a 501(c)(4) in February 2010--including a story at NPR-- launch the two year scrutiny of Tea Party groups? It's impossible to tell for certain but the IG report does offer some clues that suggest this could be the case.

Other news outlets have speculated about what might have prompted the scrutiny but no firm conclusion seems possible since the IG report redacts the event which initiated the scrutiny. However the report does offer clues.

A detailed timeline included in the report indicates the whole affair began with a February 25, 2010 email. The contents of the email, as well as the name of the sender and recipient, have been redacted and replaced with a string of asterisks. However the next entry, dated March 1st, does provide a clue. It reads, "The Determinations Unit Group Manager asked a specialist to search for other Tea Party or similar organizations’ applications in order to determine the scope of the issue." [Emphasis added]

So we know the IRS became aware of Tea Party groups whose election activities raised an "issue." A specialist was asked to determine how widespread that issue was. We know that the focus was eventually on Tea Party related groups who had applied for 501(c)(4) status, so we can assume that was also true of the group (or groups) which were noted in the initial email....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: dncrico; internalrevenue; irs; irsrico; irsscandal; obama; obamarico; teaparty; teapartyirsscandal; whitehouserico
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1 posted on 06/03/2013 1:26:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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What Initiated the IRS Targeting of the Tea Party?

The beast named Valerie Jarret.

2 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:18 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fear and Hate.


3 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:34 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Marcy Kaptur is using today’s hearing for a platform to continue her long lost war on the Citizens United ruling.


4 posted on 06/03/2013 1:29:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: VRW Conspirator

The beast named Valerie Jarret.


Exactly. She should be put on the hot seat. She’s one evil _itch.


5 posted on 06/03/2013 1:31:48 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The SCOTUS ruling in the Citizens United case.

It quite literally scared the crap out of the Left.
They foresaw Obama being buried under a blizzard of third-party negative advertising in 2012. So they pulled out every available stop to try and head this off.

Successfully, as it turns out.


6 posted on 06/03/2013 1:33:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like I said....Where’s Valerie??


7 posted on 06/03/2013 1:34:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: G Larry

Bingo. The “What” is the bitter hatred for America and the notion that anyone be allowed to think differently than Der Fuhrer 0bama and his SS.


8 posted on 06/03/2013 1:38:07 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jarret/Obama/Holder.


9 posted on 06/03/2013 1:39:24 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: VRW Conspirator
What Initiated the IRS Targeting of the Tea Party?

The beast named Valerie Jarret.

Add in Axelrod and Michelle and you have the win place and show for a trifecta.

10 posted on 06/03/2013 1:39:50 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: G Larry

John 15:18-19

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.


11 posted on 06/03/2013 1:41:20 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Many “beasts’ in D.C.


12 posted on 06/03/2013 1:42:19 PM PDT by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: VRW Conspirator
And some Liberal vigilantes at the IRS who didn't like the Supreme Court ruling and decided to make their own laws and be their own judges.
13 posted on 06/03/2013 1:42:27 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The IG-—you mean that guy that the Obama administration appointed to find out what they wanted it to find out and make a stupid statement.

Does anyone trust an IG that Obama appointed?

This shyt is getting laughable.


14 posted on 06/03/2013 1:42:30 PM PDT by Venturer
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What Initiated the IRS Targeting of the Tea Party?

In the interest of correct English usage, Barack Obama should be referred to as "Who".

15 posted on 06/03/2013 1:43:29 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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It’s a who, not a what, and the who is...Iranian Valerie Jarrett.


16 posted on 06/03/2013 1:48:16 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("Happy, happy,happy." Phil Robertson)
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[Tea Party folks partisan comments] would not explain why the IRS approved blatantly noxious BOLO criteria including "Statements in the case file that are critical of how the country is being run."

No but it would shift from comparing this to Watergate to the real comparison: FDR's Great Sedition Trial of 1944.

As Ms Peggy Noonan pointed out Watergate was elites using the machinery of government to spy on elites. What's happening today is the Obama Adminstration using the machinery of government government to go after "little people." E.g., using the Obama/Holder Department of Just Us and Our People.

Nixon's Articles of Impeachment listed that Nixon was being charged with endeavoring to use the IRS and another agecny; in some cases the Articles of Impeachment did say that he used a third agency. They knew the difference.

I think that Ms Peggy Noonan wrote recently: [Watergate] was elites using the machinery of government to spy on elites . . . The dreadful thing about this scandal, what makes it ominous, is that this is the elites versus regular citizens. It’s the mighty versus normal people. It’s the all-powerful directors of the administrative state training their eyes and moving on uppity and relatively undefended Americans.

Thus it ain't Watergate it is FDR's Great Sedition Trial of 1944.

The sedition was just a ruse to destroy anti-FDR and anti-communist "bloggers".

Once the little people of the opposition were disposed of the next targets would be the elite Republicans like Senator Taft and the publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Some believed.

I have oft-posted: "I like to mention A Mockery of Justice The Great Sedition Trial of 1944 often.. because I see Great "Sedition" Trials of 201x - 201x" a coming." Little did I know that it was happening all those years.

17 posted on 06/03/2013 1:50:57 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Watergate: FORTY people were indicted or sent to prison.

FORTY PEOPLE

18 posted on 06/03/2013 1:52:38 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

many will say the question should be who but.....

The answer as to what is treacherous tyranny the punishment for which must be death.


19 posted on 06/03/2013 1:52:52 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....Obama Denies Role in Government)
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What Initiated the IRS Targeting of the Tea Party?

The demise of the Health Care Snitch Line operated on the White House's own web site.

20 posted on 06/03/2013 1:53:21 PM PDT by PeevedPatriot
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