Posted on 09/11/2014 4:48:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
IRS: An aide to the attorney general accidentally calls the office of the House Oversight Committee chairman, asking for help in spinning the defense of the agency whose head just said they obey the law when they can.
We have commented many times of the all-too-cozy relationship between the IRS and Democratic members of the House and Senate, with members writing to the agency demanding that specific conservative groups and political action committees they find particularly irritating be subject to the "special scrutiny" that the Tea Party and other conservative and religious groups were subjected to in the ongoing scandal.
Of particular interest to us has been Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member on Rep. Darrell Issa's House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, who has made every effort to keep the committee from finding out the true extent of IRS corruption and abuse of power in its targeting of conservatives.
As we've noted, emails released by Issa, a California Republican, show that Cummings' Democratic staff had requested information from the IRS' tax-exempt division, the one headed by Lois Lerner, on True the Vote, a conservative group that monitors polling places for voter fraud and supports the use of voter IDs, something that Cummings opposes.
"The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared, protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings' staff," the Oversight panel said in a statement.
According to Issa, Cummings and his staff sought "copies of all training materials used for volunteers, affiliates or other entities" from True the Vote.
Five days later, True the Vote received an almost identical request for information from the IRS.
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Will somebody ask the question, “Protection from what???!!!”
Why isn’t E. Lie Ja bustin rocks in a prison somewhere?
Why isn’t E. Lie Ja bustin rocks in a prison somewhere?
Exactly, these criminals are causing the government to crumble from within.
The real corruption is among those who voted these people into office.
The IRS is toast...and good riddance.
Sadly, you’re right. There are way too many voters on the take and they’ll vote for anyone who they think will hand out more to them.
Yeah, but reality bats last. And Obama and his cronies are in for a world of bat guano.
Amen...Your lips to G-ds ears.
I don’t think I’ve ever wished so hard for...
...eh, use your imagination (self-censored).
Let’s get that race war started....E.Lie Jah should be in the federal prison system with the rest of this administration.
Look at little Israel. Would she be thriving if G-d weren't thoroughly involved? Israel is David to Islam's Goliath.
Obama is not only on the wrong side of history...he's on the wrong side of eternity.
Cummings should be in prison. Not up there on Capitol Hill with all of the other thieving criminals.
Getting rid of the IRS will be extremely hard to accomplish. That is the source of governments power, they will fight to the bitter end to keep it. The GOPe track record of fighting for liberty is lacking to say the least.
It must happen if we are to be a free people but I don’t think there is enough backbone in Washington to do it.
Cummings should be in prison?
Yesss...:-)
One gets the impression that the only way this corruption will be routed is to raze all of Washington DC to the ground and salt the ground beneath its ruins.
What happened to the good old days when my neighbor across the alley, Dan Rostenkowski would use the IRS to just shake down big corporations for cash and goodies? His staff would sit with his Chicago style patronage in the IRS and choose which deep pockets were the best to go after.
His Chicago style patronage worked like this: A civil service exam would be announce and people would sign up for it. At the last minute the location of the exam would be moved to his back office, or the back office of a friendly colleague. Intimidating thugs would sit in the front office and deny entry to those whom nobody sent.
What happened to the good old days when my neighbor across the alley, Dan Rostenkowski would use the IRS to just shake down big corporations for cash and goodies? His staff would sit with his Chicago style patronage in the IRS and choose which deep pockets were the best to go after.
His Chicago style patronage worked like this: A civil service exam would be announce and people would sign up for it. At the last minute the location of the exam would be moved to his back office, or the back office of a friendly colleague. Intimidating thugs would sit in the front office and deny entry to those whom nobody sent.
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