Posted on 05/21/2013 8:55:14 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The IRS has admitted to harassing conservative groups seeking tax exempt status, singling out for extra special scrutiny organizations which featured “patriot” or “tea party” designations in their name. We now know that a number of these groups were forced to withdraw their applications, being unable or unwilling to continue what in some cases had become a 3 year battle with the corrupt federal agency.
But few in the media have bothered to ask who directed the IRS to engage in this criminal behavior. It has been reported that Senators Chuck Schumer and Al Franken addressed a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in early 2012, “…demanding the IRS target conservative groups or face legislation forcing them to do so.” (1)
Yet Democrat demands that the IRS investigate conservative organizations were nothing new. Senators Dick Durbin and Max Baucus offered their own “suggestions” that the Service...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Miller just admitted that it was partisan.
Where is the Hatch Act.
We have a Union pof Government employees participationg in the election process through election fund campaigns, and meeting with the president prior to elections in violation of the Hatch Act.
Why isn’t someone being arrested.
Laws aren't relevant to Democrats.
Miller just admitted that it was partisan.
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Time for Captain Obvious to swoop in! :)
Where is the Hatch Act.
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Laws don’t matter anymore. Only Executive Orders do.
That would be racist.
IBTPZ*
*The P is for “post”. I understand your frustration, but I’m guessing JimRob won’t let that post stay here long...
As a start, names and scalps of the "Acting Manager, Technical Unit" and "Determinations Unit Program Manager" must be delivered forthwith.
Those two would volunteer to round up everyone else.
yeah you’re right.
And the GOP Elite aren’t unhappy conservative groups were targeted.
amen
Years after the IRS started stabbing the TEA Party and others. I'm sure the Rats have been bucking to use the IRS to break the conservative movement for a very long time, but it took an Obastard administration to be stupid enough to do it.
Nobody knows any names as to who initiated the targeting policy.....do these IRS people put anything in writing? They get a list of targeting criteria to follow, with no signature?
In a sane world all responsible would be out of a job, the aggrieved organizations would get a letter of apology and monetary compensation.
Live Thread: Senate Finance Committee Hearing on IRS Scrutiny of Non-Profit Organizations
C-SPAN 3 ^ | May 21, 2013
Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:18:35 AM by jiggyboy
Just wondering...
The “demographics” of the aggrieved and the aggrievers...
Is this part of Val’s “payback”?
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