Posted on 06/05/2013 2:21:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When the FBI finally fires up its criminal investigation of the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, there is one person the special agent in charge better be sure to interview former White House Counsel Robert Bauer. The FBI may discover the whole IRS mess leads through the land of campaign finance reform and an obsession with speech regulation, an obsession shared by Bauer.
Any criminal investigation identifies for further scrutiny those with motive, opportunity, and means, and Bauer deserves no quarter from FBI investigators on those three counts.
The Crimes
Without any doubt, crimes were committed by IRS employees, not the least of which was the fact that IRS employees disclosed confidential information from IRS forms to the political enemies of the groups seeking tax-exempt status.
For example, Cindy Thomas, the Cincinnati unit manager for exempt organizations at the IRS, illegally released the tax applications of nine separate conservative organizations to the left-wing group ProPublica. The IRS claims that Thomas illegal release of private tax information was an accident, but the excuse is absurd.
Thomas wasnt the only IRS employee leaking the tax information of conservative groups to their enemies. Pro-marriage groups found their confidential information in the hands of gay marriage advocacy organizations.
The FBI can start by finding out whether Thomas and her fellow IRS travelers in fact released the private information.....
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Good post.
I haven't seen any article stating that Bauer met with Shulman over 118 times. Do you have a link for this?
No link or report on that. But you have to wonder about it.
I suspect J Christian Adams knows more than he said in this article.
Meanwhile:
Also this--- from lib website slamming Monica Crowley:
"Data.gov shows that over 200 of Davis's visits were to HHS official Liz Fowler (12 visits), White House adviser on health care Ezekiel Emanuel (21 visits), and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Health Reform Jeanne Lambrew (198 visits), who were coordinating with the IRS on implementation of the health care law."
At least 88 IRS agents were involved in the targeting scandal
* Nearly 500 conservative groups targeted
* At least 5 pro-Israel groups targeted
* Constitutional groups were targeted
* Groups critical of Obama administration were targeted
* At least two pro-life groups targeted
* A Texas voting-rights group was targeted
* Conservative activists and businesses were targeted.
* At least one conservative Hispanic group was targeted
* Christian groups were targeted
* Christian churches were targeted, infiltrated and harassed
I meant to post to Top aide to former IRS chief reportedly logged hundreds of White House visits, but post 44 is just as or more appropriate in this thread.
IMO, the list points to more than just the use of the target words the public has been given.
These are just the people/groups that have come forward so far.
As it stands, the list is beginning to reveal evidence that the IRS was used as an arm of the DNC.
Enter Bob Bauer and/or Rahm?
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