Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: “Everything comes from the top.”

The Washington Examiner ^ | 5/19/2013 | Sean Higgins

[Beave Meister]

A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents.

The Post story anonymously quoted a staffer in Cincinnati as saying they only operate on directives from headquarters:

As could be expected, the folks in the determinations unit on Main Street have had trouble concentrating this week. Number crunchers, whose work is nonpolitical, don’t necessarily enjoy the spotlight, especially when the media and the public assume they’re engaged in partisan villainy.

“We’re not political,’’ said one determinations staffer in khakis as he left work late Tuesday afternoon. “We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do. . . . That’s why there are so many people here who are flustered. Everything comes from the top. We don’t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive.”

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[GOPJ]

If the IRS had targeted gay groups the liberals at MSNBC would understand this is offensive.

If blacks had been profiled in this fashion by the IRS, liberal elites would get it - and be outraged

Liberals aren't fooling us - we know they understand - it's not rocket science.

Whites in the Jim Crow South knew they were discriminating when blacks had difficult written test to take to earn the right to vote... While southern whites just walked in and signed a card. The IRS knew they were discrimination when the Tea Party had to fill out impossible forms while liberal elites just signed a card.

And the folks at MSNBC? They're lying... they get what's going on - they're just standing with the racists of old and the thugs of our day...

[GOPJ]

Someone signed that directive.

Yes Lurker, you and I know that... the press would know it too if they bothered to ask a few questions - or just took their heads out of the sand...

Had the IRS had targeted gay groups the New York Times would understand and be 'flooding the zone'. If blacks had been profiled in this fashion by the IRS, the Washington Post would get it - and be outraged.

Liberals aren't fooling anyone - not even themselves. We know they understand.

Whites in the Jim Crow South knew they were discriminating against blacks when difficult written test were required for blacks to vote. While southern whites just walked in and signed a card. Small minded thugs did it to blacks because they could get away with it - and because they were petty totalitarians.

The IRS knew they were discriminating when the Tea Party had to fill out impossible forms while liberal elites just 'walked in' and signed a card.

And the folks in the press? They're lying... they get what's going on - they're just standing with the racists of old and the thugs of our day...