Posted on 06/02/2013 10:15:02 AM PDT by kristinn
IRS employee in bombshell congressional interviews about tea party targeting: 'Washington, DC wanted some cases ... I sent seven'
Interviews with IRS employees have established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement on CNN Sunday morning.
'As late as last week,' he said, 'the [Obama] administration was still trying to say the [IRS targeting scandal] was from a few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is that they were directly being ordered from Washington.'
A committee spokesman sent MailOnline partial transcripts of two interviews with unnamed IRS workers about the agency's actions in early 2010, on whose testimony Issa based his bombshell statement.
One of those interviewees said it was 'impossible' for a few IRS agents to have orchestrated such widespread partisan targeting on their own.
'Did [your supervisor] give you any indication of the need for the search [for tea party groups], any more context?' one IRS witness was asked in a closed-door interview.
'He told me that Washington, D.C., wanted some cases,' came the reply.
The employee, who said he or she was evaluating 40 such applications for tax-exempt status from conservative organizations at the time, said 'some went to Washington. D.C. ... I sent seven.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If the courts can not handle it, other means will surface.
The crimes against the most basic structure of the
Republic will result in destruction for many guilty.
Prepare FRiends....prepare. The time is upon us.
I always thought it would not happen in my lifetime. I was WRONG again.
Lord help me... I HATE being wrong!
I want to know what other agencies investigated donors whose names were provided to them by the IRS. As big and bad as the IRS is, this is a lot bigger than just the IRS. We already know the IRS leaked the names of donors to liberal activists, who then harassed the donors with pickets and boycotts. I want to know what agencies did the same. EPA, ATF, OSHA, who else made the lives of ordinary people a living hell with audit after audit, for the crime of trying to speak out against the regime?
The end goal of the IRS and Obastard is to make donating to their opposition a federal crime. It worked like a talisman in 2012.
Barry has been using the IRS as a political weapon since at least the Joe the Plumber days.
Sounds like a whistle blower to me, didn’t plead the Fifth! Under the bus!!!! /s
These are committee interviews with Dem staff present. That means Team Kenya will know what everybody said. That is unspoken intimidation right there.
I doubt they have gotten to the real bombshells yet. They need to take the info they have gotten and waterboard the middle manager types. Those are the folks that will know where the bodies are buried in DC.
One of the most liberal papers in the UK
Names. We will get them through investigations and/or leaked through civil actions. Even if the POS escapes punishment, his evil front line minions will be badly damaged.
Where there is smoke there is fire. This was a coordinated effort that included far far more than the IRS. The effort included at a minimum the IRS and an outside political intelligence gathering organization that both provided specific information to the IRS and as well gathered specific information from the IRS. This outside entity remains in operation TODAY.
This isn’t going anywhere. Nothing’s going to happen.
Same with Benghazi and all the other scandals.
If we’re hoping that this will take down a president, it ain’t gonna happen.
If we’re hoping this will affect the 2014 elections, it ain’t gonna happen.
We an FR live in a very small bubble. We’re a permanent minority. What we think here has no affect on the majority of the population’s voting patterns.
Feigning ignorance and scapegoating subordinates is not an answer to criminal activity.
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I believe the order for payback against the opposition—probably from VJ—as well as personal information and methods were shared from on high with Democrat state organizations as well. In this case, the target was anti-small business and the entrepreneurs (read: Republican donors) running them.
I believe a court case was cobbled out of nothingness against me by our state’s AG, costing me three years of money, time and consternation beginning about 6/2010. In February, 2013, the circuit judge awarded me summary judgment, saying in essence the state didn’t have a case against me, a small businessman. They knowingly misconstrued a law they must have been dealing with in potential court cases 100x/year.
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Paul Ryan indicated that they had discovered some unbelievable things and said just to be patient. Saw him on something earlier this week. I think they will stick to it.
I want to know who is willing to go to jail to protect BO and the Mooch. Should be interesting. Doesn’t sound like too many people actually like BO from what I have read.
...the [Obama] administration was still trying to say the [IRS targeting scandal] was from a few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is that they were directly being ordered from Washington.
I think maybe they’re aiming at the middle managers through the low level people. Did you notice one of them - she, he, I don’t know - said that the higher ups regarded them as lower than dirt, but they weren’t going to go under the bus for the higher ups.
Bam!
This article is NOT from the Guardian, its from the Daily Mail.
The heading at the top of the thread says The Guardian.
Just get used to it folks. Under Obamacare, this type of actions will be the norm. Wait till you go for health care at the Dr’s office and they tell you they cannot do something because the IRS has decided that your particular activities are against their rules. Republican, Conservative, Christian, Patriot. All those will be prime targets for the One World Government in Babylon D.C.
Valerie Jarrett.
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