Posted on 05/14/2013 5:49:04 AM PDT by grundle
(Reuters) - Higher-level Internal Revenue Service officials took part in discussions as far back as August 2011 about targeting by lower-level tax agents of "Tea Party" and other conservative groups, according to documents reviewed by Reuters on Monday.
The documents show the offices of the IRS's chief counsel and deputy commissioner for services and enforcement communicated about the targeting with lower-level officials on August 4, 2011, and March 8, 2012, respectively.
The two communications occurred weeks and months before Doug Shulman, then the commissioner of the IRS, told congressional panels in late March 2012 that no groups were being targeted for extra scrutiny by the tax agency.
The IRS has maintained that its senior leadership did not know for some time that lower-level agents were applying extra scrutiny to applications for tax-exempt status from groups with key words in their names, such as "Tea Party" and "Patriot.
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Government is an extortion racket envied by the mob.
The MSM is committing acts of journalism. What gives?
IRSGate = no provable (unless someone with material evidence testifies) link to Obama
Benghazigate = direct involvement by both Obama and Hitlery
What gives is an elaborate ruse to take attention off the real issue. The ends justify the means... the hallmark of liberalism.
Nothing will get fixed until people recognize that Gov’t and particular its employees, have a Leftist tilt, which is getting more pronounced as time goes on.
I think the MSM knows they are sitting on a volcano that is about to blow. No doubt a Deep Throat source telling them there is a whole lot more where this came from. I think this has hit a tipping point where they’re afraid to get on the wrong side of history.
Sure hope you are right. But since they’re already and irrevocably on the wrong side of history, why change their colors now? We still won’t trust them. Not for a long, long time.
Here is the crux of the matter:
“The IRS targeting procedure emerged at a time of controversy about tax-exempt groups organized under U.S. tax law 501(c)4. Such groups multiplied after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 “Citizens United” ruling that relaxed campaign finance rules.”
Obama gave the go ahead when he singled out the Citizens United decision for criticism in the State of the Union address in front of the Justices.
That one remark intimidated Roberts on Obamacare and empowered the IRS targeting.
“The IRS targeting procedure emerged at a time of controversy about tax-exempt groups organized under U.S. tax law 501(c)4. Such groups multiplied after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 “Citizens United” ruling that relaxed campaign finance rules.”
Leftists are attracted to positions of unaccountable power like bugs to a porch light. Trying to put different bugs in their place doesn’t work. You have to turn off or remove the light.
Exactly!
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