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White House's "Excessive Entanglement" with the IRS
Townhall.com ^ | 5/26/2013 | Carol Platt Liebau

Posted on 05/26/2013 8:19:46 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

Top IRS officials, whose agency was under investigation for targeting conservative groups, visited the Obama White House more than 100 times over two years while the probe was going on, far more often than in previous administrations ...

reports Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner.

Granted, some of the meetings were about the IRS' role in implementing ObamaCare. But take note of this:

Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman visited the White House 118 times between 2010 and 2011. Acting Director Steven Miller, who took over at the IRS in November, also made numerous visits to the White House, though variations in the spelling of his name in White House visitor logs makes it difficult to determine exactly how many times.

The frequent trips to the White House under Obama far outnumbered the times other administrations felt the need to meet with the IRS, according to Mark Everson, who led the IRS under former President George W. Bush. Everson said he remembers making only one trip to the White House between 2003 and 2007 and said he felt like he'd "moved to Siberia" because of the isolation.

Certainly, it's just one more flaw of ObamaCare that it requires extensive contacts between presidential administrations -- all necessarily with political aims and goals -- and IRS bureaucrats. it facilitates political tampering with the IRS.

But it's likewise suspicious that entries about many of the White House meetings state no purpose for them. It is hard to believe that a concurrent investigation into IRS extravagance on conferences and the like absorbed hours and hours of meeting time -- and likewise difficult to believe that the topic of political targeting never, ever came up in all those many hours spent together.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: entanglement; excessive; irs; irsscandal; obama; obamairsscandal; whirsscandal; whitehouse

1 posted on 05/26/2013 8:19:46 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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To: Servant of the Cross

The Czars ,who do they report to ? These Czars are everywhere


2 posted on 05/26/2013 8:22:35 AM PDT by molson209
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To: molson209

Report suspicious activity (like tea party rallies) to the appropriate authorities, komrade.

:D


3 posted on 05/26/2013 8:25:45 AM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: Servant of the Cross

The IRS is now nothing more then the STASI for the Democrat party


4 posted on 05/26/2013 8:33:16 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Servant of the Cross
Acting Director Steven Miller, who took over at the IRS in November, also made numerous visits to the White House, though variations in the spelling of his name in White House visitor logs makes it difficult to determine exactly how many times.

Variations?

Steven Miller?

Steven Miller is hard to spell?



"eau de audette" is something you have to think about, not "Steven Miller."

How about "co-conspirator..."

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5 posted on 05/26/2013 8:34:40 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Servant of the Cross

The irs carries out the wishes of the marxist currently defiling the oval office.


6 posted on 05/26/2013 8:34:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: molson209

Check out the visits of union leader Colleen Kelly. She visited just before the bolo list was implemented.
All the other branches of government that harassed the right are connected thru the union.
Needs freepers to dig deeper and report to friendly media


7 posted on 05/26/2013 8:35:09 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: Regulator

8 posted on 05/26/2013 8:43:22 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Servant of the Cross

Political tampering is ok with Obama it’s the norm in Cook county.


9 posted on 05/26/2013 8:49:21 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Servant of the Cross

If this scandal is fully investigated by Congress and the special prosecutor...yet to be named...it will end in Obama’s impeachment and conviction IF the media gives it full airtime and honest analysis. You know, like they did with Nixon.

I’m not optimistic.


10 posted on 05/26/2013 8:51:18 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: Servant of the Cross

One does not get entangled with those it completely controls. They give orders and the subordinates follow them. There’s no secret Cabal of rogues in the IRS; they are only the employees who have been directed to fulfill Obama’s wishes.


11 posted on 05/26/2013 8:57:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Servant of the Cross

And Jay Carney repeatedly calls it an independent agency.....


12 posted on 05/26/2013 8:58:33 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: TLI
Steven Miller is hard to spell?

Which tells me he went out of his way to disguise his WH visits. He didn't want them all to be on record.

13 posted on 05/26/2013 9:03:57 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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To: Servant of the Cross
obama what is it you do around here couch liar
obama hang curtains
14 posted on 05/26/2013 9:04:34 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Servant of the Cross

15 posted on 05/26/2013 9:07:04 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: GotMojo
One thing I have not heard anyone mention is Odumbies campaign contributions. Why do we need to know who is in a tax exempt organization but not who is donating to a campaign? I still do not know who all the small donors were to the Odumby campaign but I do know who is donating to the tea party groups and Romney.

Nothing political going on at the IRS for sure.

16 posted on 05/26/2013 9:08:08 AM PDT by jimpick
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To: TLI

I don’t know why they don’t have something like a Soundex system to use, for precisely these problems. Wait I do - they don’t want people to know. They just go through the motions since Barack (as he is called in public by MO & JB), said he would be transparent.


17 posted on 05/26/2013 9:11:00 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Regulator

The media is trying to portray the IRS as an otherwise wholesome and non-political agency, just corrupted by a few bad apples. Nothing could be further from the truth. The very existence of the IRS is unAmerican as the day is long, making everyone slaves to the state, and giving politicians a ready-made tool and enforcement arm for their criminal activities. There should be a deafening rallying cry across the nation to finally abolish the IRS and the taxation of income generation completely.


18 posted on 05/26/2013 9:35:57 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Servant of the Cross
I'm posting this on everyone of these -you want to follow this back. GMC dealerships closed, Gibson Guitars, IRS audits, favored union over bondholders,

Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us, and they better be ready, because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded; the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over, and we have two judges ready to go.”

It all ties in to the government employee unions. THAT'S where the rot is. Because these faceless little Eichmann bureaucrats CAN'T be fired and are going to sabotage our country in order to protect their little fiefdoms, pensions, expense accounts and salaries.

Those are the little cockroaches that need to be ferreted out and imprisoned or fired. Start at IRS, TSA, every flag officer that signed off on the Gay agenda and State. Every single political appointee needs to be fired or put on a list for observation and scrutiny in order to file charges of tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud or any number of legal statutes these punks have violated.

Not inclusive of violating our trust in government and our constitution.

19 posted on 05/26/2013 11:26:37 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: Regulator

The IRS is destined to become the Cuban equivalent of “block captains” in the US.


20 posted on 05/26/2013 3:20:00 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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