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Full Title : New Documents Reveal Top Obama IRS Official Admitted Cincinnati Office Targeted Groups Based on ‘Guilt by Association’ (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained 1593 pages of new documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including notes from a 2011 interoffice meeting revealing a top IRS official admitted that Cincinnati office agents were targeting organizations requesting tax exempt status based on “guilt by association” and “party affiliation.” According to former IRS Director of the Office of Rulings and Agreements Holly Paz, “they think they know what the org is really doing, rather than...

Part III of the undercover Project Veritas Action investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. And, it’s all disguised as a duck. In this video, several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Democracy Partners founder directly implicating Hillary Clinton in FEC violations. “In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States, who wanted ducks on the ground,” says Creamer in one of several exchanges.

Via a Freedom of Information Act Request, Judicial Watch obtained several documents. Among those was a DOJ Recap with the following: On October 8, 2010, Lois Lerner, Joe Urban, Judy Kindell, Justin Lowe, and Siri Buller met with the section chief and other attorneys from the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section, and one representative from the FBI, to discuss recent attention to the political activity of exempt organizations.The section's attorneys expressed concern that certain section 501(c) organizations are actually political committees "posing" as if they are not subject to FEC law, and therefore may be subject to...

Conservative think tank Americans for Prosperity (AFP), co-founded by principals of Koch Industries, sued in federal court to prevent ultra-liberal California Attorney General Kamala Harris from using her office to disclose the names and addresses of their 90,000 donors. Harris may have a problem with AFP being a major force behind the Tea Party movement and its support of free markets, entrepreneurship, lower taxes, and limited government spending and regulation. As a federally registered 501(c)(4), not-for-profit educational organization, Americans for Prosperity is allowed under federal law to raise and spend money educating the public regarding issues associated with political campaigns...

"Lois Lerner Caught Granting Muslim Brotherhood front groups Tax Exempt status as far back as BUSH ADMINISTRATION" One of the reasons Republicans like Rep. Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania won’t come forward with the truth about Malik Obama’s tax exempt status and Lois Lerner’s role in it likely has to do with what she was permitted to do when a Republican president was in office. Calling attention to Lerner’s signature being at the bottom of the Barack H. Obama Foundation’s (BHOF) approval letter is certain to cause the Republican Party headaches over its complicity in taking the country to where it...

The Obama administration’s Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would not be disclosed publicly, according to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,” meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule. They planned the new rules in 2012, while the IRS targeting of conservative groups was in full swing, and not after the scandal broke in order to clarify regulations as the administration has suggested. The...

Live broadcast of hearings... Alerted by Michelle Malkin.

My parents are donating daily to these people. My father has Parkinson's & is SO worried about 0bama ruining the country that he donates to nearly everything he gets. Fortunately, my Mom gives the mail to me and I select (with her approval) which ones are forwarded, saving them a pile of money & more mail that is caused by each donation. Today I have FOURTEEN of them!

501c Groups Escape Disclosure Rules In recent months, ads mocking Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry have been surfacing in battleground states and on national cable channels, paid for by a group called Citizens United. In one television commercial playing off the MasterCard "Priceless" ads, the announcer describes Kerry's $75 haircuts, $250 designer shirts and $30 million worth of summer and winter homes. As a picture of Kerry and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) appears on screen, the announcer concludes: "Another rich, liberal elitist from Massachusetts who claims he's a man of the people. Priceless." The spot, more hard-edged than...

The local fishwrap's Labor Day editorial is an attack on President Bush dressed up as a doom & gloomer based on statistics from the Economic Policy Insitute. I want to write a rebuttal letter and want to verify the EPI's non-partisan status. It's a 501(c)3 that gets most of its funding from foundations. It doesnt list its benefactors. Is there an online source that lists funding information for 501(c)3's? Man the barricades! and Thanks. PS -- If you're interested, the editorial can be found at delawareonline.com/newsjournal/opinion/view/09062004.html

Think you've got a right to know the names of the people paying for attack ads in a local congressional race? Curious what the Sustainable World Corp. is and why it cares who the next U.S. president is? Good luck. These mysteries and plenty more are brought to you despite campaign finance reform. This is the first presidential election since Congress tried to limit the influence of big contributors. While reformers can point to some successes, the highly touted effort has done little to tie the hands of wealthy donors, said Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson. "It just...