“A growing number is wondering if the message is “Don’t publicly embarrass or challenge ObamaCare, or you could face the IRS.”
Well hell, anybody that didn’t see this coming needs to pull their head out of the sand. Isn’t this why obama amassed his irs army in the first place?
To break the IRS’s wall of silence
By Maggie Gallagher
October 9, 2013 | 9:45pm
The National Organization for Marriage’s lawsuit against the IRS may be the case that finally breaks the IRS’s “omerta” code.
In the spring of 2012, NOM’s private tax-return data turned up splashed on the Web site of its chief political opponent, the Human Rights Campaign. The leak plainly came from the IRS, because the tax return published on the site was stamped with special codes the IRS uses on electronically filed returns.
The leaked, confidential information included a list of NOM donors. Making their names virtually invited harassment of these people.
Incidentally, the chairman of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese, happened to be a co-chair of President Obama’s re-election campaign.
Leaking private tax records is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. But the IRS has stonewalled NOM’s efforts to find out what happened, even going so far as to insist it legally can’t even say it’s investigating. The supposed reason? Because laws that prevent the disclosure of return information, it claims, also protect anyone who’d be the target of an investigation into breaking those laws, and even the mere fact that the IRS is investigating.
The misuse of the IRS for political purposes by the government in power is a grave threat to our freedom, and democracy itself. Yet this case is far from unique.
We now know senior IRS officials delayed tax-exempt status for dozens of Tea Party groups until after the 2012 election. Dr. Ben Carson says he was audited for the first time just after he criticized President Obama to his face at the National Prayer Breakfast. And Mitt Romney superdonor Frank VanderSloot said he was audited three times last year, after being publicly named as one of eight “shady” donors to Romney by the Obama campaign.
Yet the IRS has consistently refused to open up about these outrages. IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner “took the Fifth” when questioned about her involvement by the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee in May, and later retired.
The NOM lawsuit may be able to break this stonewall. NOM wants a jury trial for financial damages. The chairman of its board, John Eastman, says this is the most promising legal means for NOM to uncover who committed this crime and demand he or she be prosecuted.
http://nypost.com/2013/10/09/to-break-the-irss-wall-of-silence/