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Obama IRS Political Appointees Protected Tea Party Probe Requests
The Daily Caller ^ | 6/3/15

Posted on 06/03/2015 11:22:23 AM PDT by Nachum

Senior IRS officials set up a special internal committee after congressional investigators sent information requests to the IRS’s two White House political appointees to investigate conservative and tea party non-profit applicants.

Mary Howard, the IRS’s director of privacy, governmental liaison and disclosure division, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Wednesday she never saw any of the information requests because the requests were forwarded to the special committee. Howard is also the tax agency’s chief Freedom of Information Act officer.

“I think Lois Lerner was just the tip of the iceberg,” Howard said.

“You’re telling me your group doesn’t get that?” Republican Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz asked. “Do you realize that there are only two political appointees in the IRS, the commissioner and the chief counsel?”

Chaffetz pressed Howard on White House involvement in screening documents related to the scandal. He held up an April 2009 memo from President Barack Obama that required agencies to send any requested documents to the White House that held “White House equities.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; party; probe; tea

1 posted on 06/03/2015 11:22:23 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 06/03/2015 11:22:44 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

When do people go to jail?


3 posted on 06/03/2015 11:25:56 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Nachum

This so much more than the alleged abuses used to scoure Pres. Nixon. Mr Nixon was a choir boy compared to these White House felons


4 posted on 06/03/2015 11:26:46 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: ForYourChildren
We do next summer, just before elections in November.

Domestic terrorist threats based on internet content participation where the US Constitution is upheld by the discussions.

5 posted on 06/03/2015 11:30:01 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Cyman

not a smidgen of corruption though. he is contemptible.


6 posted on 06/03/2015 11:30:54 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Nachum

Corruption so thick, ya need a machete to hack thru the duplicitous cover-ups the media is neck deep in.


7 posted on 06/03/2015 11:33:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Nachum

I’m sick and tired of hearing Chaffetz bark like he’s an angry ordinary citizen. He knows there’s a beast deep within the gubmint that no one can do anything about. He’s a beaten man and he acts it. Stop with the grandstanding and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, CONGRESSMAN CHAFFETZ.


8 posted on 06/03/2015 11:35:17 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Nachum

No scandal here....said the One...Pres Zero!


9 posted on 06/03/2015 11:35:53 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: Nachum

Not a smidgen.

Perhaps Congressmen Gohmert or Issa will be interested in this?

Who am I kidding, right?


10 posted on 06/03/2015 11:38:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Nachum

there must be mass prosecution and mass execution

Political crimes such as these must have swift and deadly justice


11 posted on 06/03/2015 11:39:34 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Nachum

So the IRS targets TEA party members, then when an investigation starts they form a special committee to protect itself from the investigations?

Nice....


12 posted on 06/03/2015 11:54:13 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: ForYourChildren

THATS MY QUESTION!!

WHEN THE GD-#$#%ing-HECK is SOMEONE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION GOING TO GO TO JAIL????


13 posted on 06/03/2015 11:55:35 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: Nachum

jail


14 posted on 06/03/2015 11:56:32 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: ForYourChildren

No one will go to jail and you would be surprised how many of these appointees will keep their jobs no matter who wins the White House in 2016.


15 posted on 06/03/2015 12:06:19 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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So the IRS targets TEA party members, then when an investigation starts they form a special committee to protect itself from the investigations?

Yep.

16 posted on 06/03/2015 12:25:08 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT; Smokin' Joe

The list of subhumans grows.


17 posted on 06/03/2015 12:30:49 PM PDT by Salamander (Vested Subhuman)
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To: blackdog

http://freebeacon.com/issues/justice-department-studying-far-right-social-media-use/


18 posted on 06/03/2015 1:20:41 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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