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IRS Tea Party Targeting Was Directed From D.C.
Investor's Business Daily ^ | June 18, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 06/18/2013 4:21:12 PM PDT by raptor22

Scandal: A D.C.-based supervisor in the IRS's tax-exempt status division has indicated during interviews with congressional investigators that the targeting was deliberate and not run by rogue agents in Cincinnati.

Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status, told congressional investigators she was personally involved in reviewing Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status as far back as 2010, reviewing as many as 30.

The involvement of Paz thickens the plot considerably and shatters the theory that two rogue agents in Cincinnati got bored in their cubicles one day and decided to target for special scrutiny Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Paz's supervisor was Lois Lerner, who headed the tax-exempt division. It was on May 22, the day after Paz was interviewed by investigators, that Lerner refused to answer questions from lawmakers at a congressional hearing, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.

Was Lerner worried about what Paz had told investigators and that her testimony would contradict Paz's?

The full transcript of Paz's interview has not been released. Democrats say that's because the full transcript would reveal no vast left-wing conspiracy, with Elijah Cummings, ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, proclaiming the investigation over.

But Chairman Darrell Issa says it's only just begun, with enough of the interview being released to demolish the big lie about Cincinnati without tipping off those being investigated.

By the fall of 2010, Carter Hull, an IRS legal expert also based in Washington, was working on about 40 Tea Party applications, Paz said. She added that for several months that year, Hull worked closely with Elizabeth Hofacre, one of the "rogue" agents in Cincinnati, to review the Tea Party cases.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; douglasshulman; fastandfurious; govtabuse; hollypaz; ibd; impeachnow; irs; irsjackboots; irsscandals; loislerner; obama; taxes; teaparty; tyranny

1 posted on 06/18/2013 4:21:12 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

Well,,,, at least we know it wasn’t two “rouge” agents! The little old ladies with pink cheeks are off the hook!


2 posted on 06/18/2013 4:25:10 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: raptor22

Brought to you by the Director of the Obvious.


3 posted on 06/18/2013 4:32:39 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: raptor22

The shame is that the honest employees who will come forward trust the Republicans to protect them. They won’t. Careers will be destroyed and fortunes lost because the Congress has no courage.


4 posted on 06/18/2013 4:32:59 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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5 posted on 06/18/2013 4:33:47 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: raptor22

So much for Cummings’ “Republican” IRS employee who said it
came from Ohio.


6 posted on 06/18/2013 4:36:28 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: raptor22

Obama will do whatever is necessary to protect his front line commissars. He cannot afford truthful testimony from any of them. The only way they would talk is if they faced serious prison time.


7 posted on 06/18/2013 4:36:34 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


8 posted on 06/18/2013 4:41:14 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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To: raptor22

well we new that.
i’d say straight to 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue


9 posted on 06/18/2013 4:41:51 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: raptor22

Using government to attack political enemies. Now take 3 guesses as to why bam is out there defending massive data collection by NSA.


10 posted on 06/18/2013 4:46:47 PM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: raptor22

A second part of this scandal is that news organizations like Reuters are still trying to peddle the “two rogue agents in Cincinnati” bologna.


11 posted on 06/18/2013 4:50:36 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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IBD EDITORIAL PING


12 posted on 06/18/2013 5:51:47 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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I see some unfortunate accidental deaths in the future for those the IRS hierarchy thinks are the weak links. After all, those GM cars even catch fire just sitting still so what's unusual about someone burning to death in their GM vehicle when they start it one morning?
13 posted on 06/18/2013 6:00:07 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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Oh, come on - everyone in the United States who isn’t an imbecile or a congenital idiot knows it was directed by the White House.

When it comes to nasty payback, Obama’s a “hands on” kinda guy.


14 posted on 06/18/2013 6:57:00 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: raptor22
Borg quotes from Star Trek:

Sounds like some of these can be adapted to fit the agenda of our current administration
==========================================================================
- Your life, as it has been, is over.
- Resistance if futile.
- Strength is irrelevant.
- Negotiation is irrelevant.
- Freedom is irrelevant.
- Self-determination is irrelevant.
- You must comply.
- You will be assimilated.

- A neural transceiver is required for maximum communication, we will work as one mind. (Can you say "cellphone"?)
- We are the Borg. Resistance as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
- You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the borg.
- Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species.
- I am Locutus, of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us.
- I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many.
- You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being Human. We used to be exactly like them. Flawed, weak, organic. But we evolved to include the synthetic. Now we use both to attain perfection.
- Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created, but now, they are all Borg.
- Borg do not consider giving technology away, only assimilating it.
- When a drone is damaged beyond repair, it is discarded, but its memories continue to exist in the collective consciousness. To use a human term, the Borg are immortal.
=========================================================

Just substitute IRS or Democrats in place of Borg, and you have today's tyranny...

15 posted on 06/18/2013 7:33:47 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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To: raptor22

Thanks for the ping.


16 posted on 06/18/2013 8:01:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (Why don't Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners? - Coulter)
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To: raptor22
Valerie Jarrett.

5.56mm

17 posted on 06/18/2013 8:02:14 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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IBD EDITORIAL PING


18 posted on 06/18/2013 8:03:54 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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To: raptor22

Thanks for the ping!


19 posted on 06/18/2013 8:24:37 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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