Posted on 08/09/2013 11:02:17 AM PDT by high info voter
The Internal Revenue Service is still targeting tea party and conservative groups in their applications for tax-exempt status, a full three months after the scandal first erupted.
"In plain English, the IRS is still targeting tea party cases," an aide to Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told The Washington Examiner.
Camp, a Michigan Republican, released a transcript of testimony from an IRS agent who told a Ways and Means investigator that the agency was still targeting such groups, the Examiner reports.
The testimony was given in a closed-door session on Aug. 1, according to the Examiner.
Camp called the renewed scrutiny "outrageous."
The IRS agent, who was not identified, told the committee that applications for tax-exempt status from tea party groups were forced into a special "secondary screening" because the agency has not yet developed new guidelines on how to review applications from such groups, the Examiner reports.
In the transcript Camp released, a Ways and Means investigator asked the IRS agent: "If you saw — I am asking this currently, if today if a tea party case, a group — a case from a tea party group — came in to your desk, you reviewed the file and there was no evidence of political activity, would you potentially approve that case? Is that something you would do?"
"At this point, I would send it to secondary screening, political advocacy," the agent responded, according to the transcript.
"So you would treat a tea party group as a political advocacy case even if there was no evidence of political activity on the application?" the committee investigator then asked. "Is that right?"
"Based on my current manager's direction, uh-huh," the IRS agent responded.
The original scandal erupted in early May when .......
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WHY NOT? What happened to them before? Nada - nothing.
They need an INCENTIVE to stop - like cutting off all their funds and making them report weekly to a Congressional oversight committee to proove they are behaving.
Why in hell would they stop?!!!! Why would this administration keep any laws?
Why would they stop?? They are now the very DeathPanels
which decide who lives, who is persecuted, and whose
children and neighbors will die.
Of course, if their victims can find enough Korans,
or an upper level DNC or DO”J” card,
they would get off with a wink, as has occurred for
5 years now.
Obama and his band of lawbreaking asshats at it again. (yawn)
DC republican politicians are cowards.
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