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Email: IRS's Lerner, Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits
The Daily Caller ^ | 2/5/14 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 02/05/2014 12:31:09 PM PST by Nachum

The Obama administration’s Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would not be disclosed publicly, according to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

The Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,” meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule. They planned the new rules in 2012, while the IRS targeting of conservative groups was in full swing, and not after the scandal broke in order to clarify regulations as the administration has suggested.

The rules place would place much more stringent controls on what would be considered political activity by the IRS, effectively limiting the standard practices of a wide array of non-profit groups.

“Don’t know who in your organizations is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off -plan) in 2013, I’ve got my radar up and this seemed interesting…,” Treasury official Ruth Madrigal wrote in a June 14, 2012 email to Lerner and others obtained by Ways and Means and provided to The Daily Caller.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: impeachnow; irs; irsoutofcontrol; irsscandals; lerner; loislerner; obama; obamacrimefamily; rico; scandals; smidgen
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It's a beautiful Lie
1 posted on 02/05/2014 12:31:09 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 02/05/2014 12:31:44 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

3 posted on 02/05/2014 12:34:36 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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It's a beautiful Lie

yep, Thanks Nachum!!!

4 posted on 02/05/2014 12:42:02 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: null and void

My apology Nully, my mistake. Dang post button.


5 posted on 02/05/2014 12:43:03 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Nachum

How can this be? owebama told baxter that there is not even a smidgen of corruption here. He wouldn’t lie would he?


6 posted on 02/05/2014 12:43:28 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: Nachum

The unaccountable IRS is RICO-tied to unions and the DNC
so as to continue election fraud, software crimes,
and assaulting and then killing people through Obama”care”.


7 posted on 02/05/2014 12:44:01 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: no-to-illegals

Eh? What mistake? I see no mistake???


8 posted on 02/05/2014 12:44:57 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: Nachum
“Most transparent administration ever”!
9 posted on 02/05/2014 12:45:57 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: null and void

underneath. 6 footed.


10 posted on 02/05/2014 12:47:28 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Diogenesis

Jail Smidgeon


11 posted on 02/05/2014 12:47:28 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Diogenesis

The IRS is Union. AFGE employees fill most of the Gov.


12 posted on 02/05/2014 12:47:45 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has made some Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: TurboZamboni

I can see right through them.


13 posted on 02/05/2014 12:47:47 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: null and void

I think it was China Grove I came up in.


14 posted on 02/05/2014 12:48:54 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: null and void
Samara Sword. Swung and missed.
15 posted on 02/05/2014 12:50:36 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Nachum

Secret rules used to deny non-profit status to conservative groups but “not a smidgen of corruption”. We are only a step away from the IRS to claim that they can use secret evidence to convict.


16 posted on 02/05/2014 12:56:44 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Nachum

Gee, really?

I’m sure Issa and his merry band of keystone kops will be right on this.

The committee chair revealed the irrelevancy of this by the statement that “I believe the IRS has a long way to go in restoring its credibility”

What? He just wants to restore the “Good Name” of the agency that any real Republican would want to snuff out of existence tomorrow morning?

Lame and Weak. And also irrelevant.


17 posted on 02/05/2014 12:56:46 PM PST by Regulator
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LOL ... I loves them. LOL ... mark time. Confusius say.


18 posted on 02/05/2014 12:56:56 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Regulator

I agree. What street car?


19 posted on 02/05/2014 12:58:29 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: null and void

Did the book show?


20 posted on 02/05/2014 1:03:51 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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