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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The Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,” meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule.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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: impeachnow; irs; irsoutofcontrol; irsscandals; lerner; loislerner; obama; obamacrimefamily; rico; scandals; smidgen
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They sued Nixon and won. The NTEU is same same as AFGE.


41 posted on 02/05/2014 9:35:35 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has made some Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: M Kehoe

These unions want more control. The NRTW is going to have to spend some serious money to stop pro union legislation.


42 posted on 02/05/2014 9:38:41 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has made some Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Nachum

43 posted on 02/07/2014 7:15:33 AM PST by TexasCajun
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