Posted on 06/04/2013 9:26:09 AM PDT by servo1969
The chairman of an anti-gay marriage group testified Tuesday that his organization has proof that the IRS leaked confidential donor details last year, calling for prosecution into what he described as a "felony."
"This just smells and I hope this committee gets to the bottom of it," John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, said at a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee.
Eastman testified Tuesday alongside several Tea Party activists who all claim they were targeted by the IRS. The Tea Party groups offered a first-hand account of how the IRS singled them out when they applied for tax-exempt status, asking them onerous questions and dragging out their application process.
But Eastman shed light on another potential controversy involving the IRS -- the unauthorized disclosure of tax document information. He recalled how information on their donors was leaked last year and published on the website of the Human Rights Campaign, which Eastman described as their "principal political opponent" on the marriage issue. The documents showed Mitt Romney's political committee as a donor.
Asked by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., if he had "proof" that the IRS leaked that material, Eastman said that he did.
Eastman explained that while some information was redacted in the posted version, his group's "forensic" specialists were able to strip layers from the document and found "the original document that was posted there had originated from within the IRS."
He said the version had "internal IRS stamps," which "only exist within the IRS."
Eastman added: "You can imagine our shock and disgust over this. ... We jealously guard our donors."
He later alleged the information was "deliberately" provided to their opponents.
"If that's inadvertent, the word no longer means anything," he said...
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I want them to harass me! I would like to rearrange their faces to match their backsides.
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attention McDermott and others :
- Devcon 2.5
run away
it is going to sudden
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A caller to rush’s show said congress can actually impeach a lot if these people— take away the job and pension. It’s a start.
I hate to say it but he does have a point. If we don’t clean house we shouldn’t be surprised that it is full of dirt.
Again, he has a point. There is a lot of evidence that the republican establishment KNEW this targeting was going on and did not blow the whistle.
“I hate to say it but he does have a point. If we don’t clean house we shouldn’t be surprised that it is full of dirt.”
That was MY point.
The POS “Coop” sending me personal messages calling me stupid is defending Republicans as NOT being responsible for any of our current mess.
*I* originally posted that the Republican presidents NOT cleaning house are as responsible as Democrats are for destroying America.
THIS post is what earned me Coop’s personal message ridicule:
To: Logical me
Every Republican president who failed to fire the Democrat cronies, appointees and moles is as much to blame as the Democrats.
7 posted on 6/4/2013 12:45:16 PM by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just “The Great War” and “Roosevelt’s Wars”.)
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“Again, he has a point. There is a lot of evidence that the republican establishment KNEW this targeting was going on and did not blow the whistle.”
Coop’s point and personal ridicule of me is based on the OPPOSITE of what you’ve posted.
Please, I prefer to call him “Mr. Stinkum.”
Heck, at this point most are thinking:
yea FOX, anti gay, you mean pro family, pro child, pro marriage, pro traditional marriage, but of course it’s anti and they mention gay, no I;m not anti happy, I am for normal marriage as it has been for thousands of years and hundreds in this country
That’s a straight bold faced lie.
__________________________________________________________ For those who may have missed it, one of the Congressman entered into the record a letter from a constituent who headed up a taxable organization that DID NOT file for any 503 status that the IRS (15 days after April 15th) that they were eligible for 503 status, therefore they MUST file under that status. The letter from the IRS demanding this was also entered into the record
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Ping for some updates on the IRS hearing today. More American taxpayers would be taking up torches and pitchforks if they were allowed to see these hearings. As it is, even C-SPAN 3, where the media shuffled off the Rand Paul filibuster where most wouldn't see it, isn't providing live coverage of these hearings. It's a media blackout.
Ah! Thanks for straightening me out. Got to love the trolls that will not even debate you in public :P
I wonder how many shredders have been worn out at the White House and Justice Department in the past few months?
They should hang with them.
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