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 ...
Of course someone will be held accountable, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan and George Washington.
The rats are turning on each other...no one wants to take the fall...
Most thought the same with “Fast and Furious” If Issa can't get indictments between Benghazi or IRS, he needs to be replaced. I'll take Gowdy.
Keep digging and digging and digging. Dig the IRS grave. I think you could get this to a flatter, simpler tax system. I'd love to see an end to the corporate tax completely. That solves the problem and clarifies who really pays taxes.
That would mean a whole lot less Lawyers, the Rats will have nothing to do with that, Repubs probably as well.
I want addresses!
So, John Bohner, when are the Articles of Impeachment going to be presented to the House?
Thanks kristinn.
Federal government union employees? Haha
MARCH 2010? Interesting,just shortly after taking down the Supreme Court at the State of the Union address for the Citizens United case.News reports stated that Obama was livid about it,now we know what the motive was,sink all those terrorists,anarchists and racists in the tea party,and Fox news,these scumbags really are a bunch of traitorous bastards
That should make us even-steven...
Ronald Reagan won two landslides. You are part of the majority. Stop listening to the Tokyo Rose liberals in the media. It's all propaganda.
I’m stunned that people are still trying to tell us that Obama never knew anything about any of this, from fast and furious, to Benghazi/
These people which try and protect Obama from all sorts of corruption, do they not understand they come across as really stupid and dumb.
Oh and lets not forget hypocritical because we all know if a republican had done half of this they would be singing a different tune
he only got the election through fraud and there is still no way he won my state fairly after who I talk to , who I know and what I see and how the fraud happened to Col West/
All the fraud was done in swing states in Dem counties and just enough to sway the election for him but of course they always wait till all republican areas report in and then they know how many votes they need to win that state.
get the low level and tell them they will lose jobs and pension and face jail and they will rat, and watch it go to the very top
Ignore the targetting of conservative groups. The fact these government agency waste so much money on themselves is disgusting
We might see Holder go, and then that will be the end of all of these scandals. This is an easy prediction.
How’s Clinton doing after all his scandals? Popular as ever? Still potently influential? Wealthy beyond our capability?
Give me proof that something will come out of this, GOPJ, not sarcasm.
It’s just realism.
My argument rests on the results of Bill Clinton’s scandals. Nothing came out of his IRS scandal, Whitewater, Lewinsky, etc. Impeachment? Phooey. He’s probably still the most potent rat politician and popular as ever, not to mention increasingly wealthy.
What do you think is going to happen?
And so it goes, one at a time they sing. We will see in the near future, higher level folks will see visions of a 6x9 cell for five to ten years and open up in song like a pigeon.
Tick tick tick
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