Posted on 05/24/2013 8:56:28 AM PDT by Duke C.
[snip]After the May 17, 2013 hearing conducted by the House Ways and Means Committee, at which Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller testified, Mitchell decided to release a memorandum she compiled, “to place into context the manner in which the IRS processed applications for exempt status prior to 2010, what has transpired during this terrible targeting period, and some reactions to the statements and misstatements and misrepresentations of Acting Commissioner Miller last week.” (Emphasis is ours)
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativehq.com ...
Direct link to PDF: http://www.actrightlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IRS-Targeting-of-Conservative-Groups-A-History-Overview-and-Status-Report.pdf
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Friday news dump....
Cleata has it correctly. Now to tie Shulman and his 122 visits to the White House to Bob Bauer. More information on Bauer below.
Following the smoking gun back upstream. I can only guess that Cleata and other legal folks know now to tie this together. It can be 1000 times bigger then Watergate but will the Media carry the water for Obama again or will they cut his nuts once and for all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-bauer/gIQAgz4w6O_topic.html
Outgoing White House Counsel (December 2009 to June 2011)
Why He Matters
Bauer is one of the nation’s pre-eminent experts on election and campaign finance law, and his views are enormously influential with Democrats.
Married to Anita Dunn.
Another article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/11/28/democratic-lawyerobama-advisor-bob-bauer-to-teach-at-nyu/
Bauer is returning to New York University Law School this spring to teach a seminar on political reform.
The course will encompass campaign finance, lobbying laws, voting rights and more—topics Mr. Bauer has had ample exposure to during his 30 years of practice as a lawyer, which include stints working for political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee.
It gets better.
Read the end of this paragraph.
During his time on the campaign trail, Mr. Bauer led challenges to new voter laws backed by Republicans—including suing the state of Ohio in July—and lobbied the Federal Election Commission to allow individuals to text in donations (as did his Romney counterpart). Mr. Bauer also sought to compel the well-funded Republican advocacy group Crossroads GPS to disclose the names of its donors, citing millions of dollars the group has spent on campaign ads attacking Democrats.
This is the guy who pulled the chains with the IRS on behalf of the White House.
You can’t make this stuff up. On May 21, 2013 Obama appointed Bob Bauer to A FEC Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
LOOKING TO STEAL MORE VOTES IN THE FUTURE.
Commission to identify practical, real-world solutions to long voter lines, access to polls.
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Presidential Commission on Election Administration was officially launched today, following President Barack Obama ‘s State of the Union pledge to identify non-partisan ways to shorten lines at polling places, promote the efficient conduct of elections, and provide better access to the polls for all voters.
The 10-member Commission will submit a final report to the President within six months of its first public meeting, which is expected to be held in Washington in June. Headed by Co-Chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg , the Commissioners are experts in election administration, policy and procedures, or leaders from customer service-oriented businesses and industry.
“The President’s expectation is clear,” said Co-Chair Bob Bauer , who served President Obama as White House counsel from December 2009 until 2011, and as General Counsel to the President’s re-election committee and to the Democratic National Committee. “The Commission is charged with developing recommendations based on the best information available for administrative practices that afford voters the opportunity to cast ballots without undue delay and improve their overall experience.”
” The Commission was created by Executive Order 13644, Establishment of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. Commissioners were appointed by the President.:
Robert F. Bauer , Co-Chair and Member – Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Another Obama Executive order.
Is this getting any play? Is Rush picking up on this?
Bttt
Sounds like our whole administration is a government run by ‘nepotism’.
There is a lot of good stuff in the pdf file. For example:
Steven Miller:
The agency pinpointed two “rogue” employees in the Cincinnati IRS office as being
responsible for “overly aggressive” handling of tea party requests for tax-exempt status
over the past two years.
Her reply:
This is completely false. In 2011, at least one of the Cincinnati IRS agents assigned to handle
two clients’ applications advised me that the Washington, DC office was actively involved in the
decisions and processing of my clients’ applications for exempt status. This was memorialized
in a letter to the agent, Ron Bell, on November 8, 2011. When I called him in December 2011
for an update, he advised me that the applications had been transferred to a special task force in
Washington, DC for further review. The effort by senior IRS officials to lay this scheme at the
hands of a few low level’ IRS employees is despicable and must not be tolerated.
I’m having a hard time understanding why all these bombshells are occurring, yet no one at all is affected by them.
I think it’s a stretch to even call them firecrackers.
From what I can see they are more like a bunch of whatevers.
Until it’s the lead story on CNN and NY Times, it’s nothing.
Spoken like you're reading directly from David Plouffe's 'DNC Talking Points.' How very odd...
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But you know what?
I’m not.
I’m reading right from my own thoughts.
Seems kind of silly to call things bombshells when not so much as a blade of grass has been displaced by its detonation right?
I want results, not hyperbolic descriptions.
“There is much work remaining to be done to ascertain the truth of this matter,” said Mitchell in the conclusion of her memo on the IRS political discrimination against the Tea Party. “The IRS leadership continues to dissemble, deny and obfuscate. Congress and others must obtain internal communications and correspondence from the IRS and interview IRS employees and agents under oath. That should not be delegated to the Department of Justice, which has also been criticized by its Inspector General for unlawful 'ideological and political' considerations in official decision-making.”
Seriously, she makes a good point - with the DOJ corrupt, who does this get referred to?
So stop overusing them in your telling foot-stomping.
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I’m not.
I am saying exactly what I see.
What is the response to the tyranny of the government of the United States?
Nothing.
Not one single thing at all.
That isn’t hyperbolic.
That is reality.
You may actually believe that, but if so, that's disturbing.
I'm watching Committee after Committee, week after week, hound-dogging this hapless Kommie prick until he can't turn around without seeing another investigation.
I see the media slowly but surely turning on this sphincter.
And I see a TEA Party-led supermajority in The House stopping much of his progressive bullshizzit cold.
I guess "reality" depends on what you choose to focus on. Loser.
Oh, and that "space between every brief line" posting crap is a pathetically anal affectation, and mildly psychotic. Know that it isn't cool, it's disturbed. ;-\
You know, I write my posts the way I do so that people who read them don’t have to deal with a wall of text. If you don’t like it, that’s your problem, not mine. Also, what is an investigation without results? It’s nothing. Nothing. You see a Tea Party super majority stopping his progressive BS cold? He’s gotten every single thing he’s wanted.You can call me a loser if it makes you feel better about yourself, your grammar school name calling doesn’t mean anything to me, it’s just a reflection on you. I suppose I am a loser in that I’ve lost freedom under this administration, and my party hasn’t done diddly squat to prevent it, but so are you, and so is every other free person in this country. I expect that part of the reason that our party continues to do nothing and gets away with doing nothing is because people like you insist upon seeing doing nothing as having done something. If no one holds them accountable for doing nothing, why should they do something? I hope you’ve enjoyed my text formatting, and I hope it appears less disturbed to you. Please know that I’ll be more than happy to give you a wall of text in every response I give you in the future, Gargantua. Have a nice night.
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