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New IRS bombshell: 'Most audacious power play yet'
WND ^ | 4-27-2014 | Garth Kant

Posted on 04/27/2014 6:30:26 PM PDT by smoothsailing

April 27, 2014

NEW IRS BOMBSHELL: 'MOST AUDACIOUS POWER PLAY YET'

Agency clobbers fierce critic of Obama, Clintons

Garth Kant

WASHINGTON — It was the nearly silent bombshell of the IRS scandal, but it may have been one of the most significant.

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When the IRS stripped the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, or PHC, of its tax-exempt status, it ... may have been the most audacious power play yet by the left in its use of the department to wage war on conservatives.

Additionally, the PHC is unique among the IRS’ recent known victims:

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Unlike the tea-party groups, the PHC did not spring up after the 2008 election of President Obama, but has been around since the 1990s. It was approved in January 1998 as a 501(c)(3). Based in Manassas, Va., the center was founded by former FBI agent and best-selling author, Gary Aldrich, a ferocious critic of Obama and the Clintons.

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As for Aldrich, when news of his targeting broke it didn’t cause the kind of sensational headlines as when America learned the IRS had been demanding tea-party groups report what prayers they had been saying and which books they had been reading.

But this latest development may indicate, somewhere along the way, a turning point had been reached, one in which the IRS went from defense to offense, and instead of just stalling applications, went on the attack.

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Even more ominously, the order to have the IRS dig up information to prosecute conservatives was given to the Justice Department’s director of the Election Crimes Branch of the Public Integrity Section by “someone” higher up in the chain of command.

That means the orders either came from someone in a position of top authority at the Justice Department, or, someone at the White House...

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: garyaldrich; irs; mediamatters; patrickhenrycenter; teaparty
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To: Eska

We are not going to get ‘another Reagan’. That is silly thinking. Moreover, even Reagan got rolled on some things that are still biting us.

it does no good to slow things down any more. We have got to roll things back. We need to get rid of the IRS and get to a flat tax or fair tax. We need to strip congress and the WH of the ability to spend funds. Period. End of story.

Some of the things that O has done are entrenched enough we may never be able to be fully rid of them


21 posted on 04/27/2014 7:29:11 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: vetvetdoug

But didn’t Idi Amin shoot elephants with machine guns?

I don’t see bo doing that ...

oops, what about political, non RINO elephants?


22 posted on 04/27/2014 7:33:22 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You can count my felonies by looking at my FR replies.)
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To: smoothsailing

SILLY CONSERVATIVE....

Inane things like LAWS no longer apply to connected Democrats and their minions.

Just ask anyone at ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/AP/NPR/Reuters/Pacifica/E!/WashPost/Pacifia/NYTIMES/USAToday about this!


23 posted on 04/27/2014 7:39:04 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: Eska

What tape?


24 posted on 04/27/2014 7:42:02 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Eska
Romney was the perhaps the last chance to get a non Rat president....too bad so many threw that chance away....

we can hear all these atrocioius actions of the dicktator but unless the House acts or the Judiciary acts we are sunk....

and TPTB ripping the pub party apart intentionally....divide and conquer...

we could control the Senate and the House and that would be tremendous power and yet here we are, the rinos and the tea party people infighing and the elites laughing their asses off....

25 posted on 04/27/2014 7:49:10 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Menehune56

You got that right - Issa is just playing for the cameras. What more do they need???


26 posted on 04/27/2014 7:56:57 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: smoothsailing

And the Republicans continue to fiddle while Rome burns......


27 posted on 04/27/2014 7:58:10 PM PDT by Ron H. (Impeach, Indict & Imprison the criminal Barak Hussein Obama.)
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To: smoothsailing

“That means the orders either came from someone in a position of top authority at the Justice Department, or, someone at the White House...”

They need to quit beating around the Jeb Bush about this
and just admit it. Obama gave the order and they know it.
And eventually he is going to come out and admit it. And
then he’s going to say “So what”. And you know whats going to
happen to him? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Holder, learner
and all the rest of the criminal gang will be off the hook
to boot.
If no one has had the balls to do anything about it
by now, no one is going to ever. Oh, I here they are going
to vote to hold Learner in contempt again. Well whoopty do.
So What. The Republicans are in on it. They have to be.


28 posted on 04/27/2014 8:01:32 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Fido969

Bump


29 posted on 04/27/2014 8:04:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: smoothsailing
WHEN THE HELL IS SOMEONE GOING TO FILE A FREAKING RICO SUIT AGAINST THE IRS?

Buehler? Buehler?

30 posted on 04/27/2014 8:06:52 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Slambat

My sentiments, exactly.


31 posted on 04/27/2014 8:09:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Menehune56
"Based on their lack of visible outrage, I believe many if not most of the Republicans in congress are perfectly happy for..."

...their FBI files to stay locked in the DNC vault.

32 posted on 04/27/2014 8:09:54 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Slambat

Well, I guess sooner or later someone is going to have to risk their lives, fortunes and sacred honor in the cause of liberty. Apparently, we are still too fat and happy to put it all on the line for the cause just yet.

Until enough of us are ready to make the full commitment, nothing is going to get done.


33 posted on 04/27/2014 8:18:29 PM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: smoothsailing
More "in yo' face" politics from the Obama Gang. They clearly don't believe for a minute that the GOP will do anything to Lerner or anyone else from the IRS, and they are waving that under their noses.
34 posted on 04/27/2014 9:09:32 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Free Vulcan
WHEN THE HELL IS SOMEONE GOING TO FILE A FREAKING RICO SUIT AGAINST THE IRS?

I don't mean to be a killjoy, but the RICO statutes are entirely unconstitutional. They criminalize association, rather than action. But on the bright side, employees of the IRS have committed a whole menu of actual felonies that could probably put thousands of officials away for a long time, and be a nice kickoff for the elimination of the agency and the abolition of the Federal income tax.

35 posted on 04/27/2014 9:16:05 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: smoothsailing

Box #4


36 posted on 04/27/2014 10:17:34 PM PDT by tomkat (3% +1)
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To: Nifster
Some of the things that O has done are entrenched enough we may never
be able to be fully rid of them

Everything Zero has done by Executive order can be reversed by Executive order.
Reversing all of the mess the RATs have done should only take about 30-days tops.

37 posted on 04/27/2014 10:32:03 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: cherry

Romney was nothing less than a false flag/ misdirection op. He was/is a socialist like the rest of the infestation known as DC.


38 posted on 04/27/2014 10:33:21 PM PDT by Don W (Know what you WANT. Know what you NEED. Know the DIFFERENCE!)
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To: smoothsailing

The IRS is coming under my serious focus.


39 posted on 04/27/2014 10:57:17 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: null and void

Yes. SLeeping giant is waking up and he’s waking up on the wrong side of the bed...


40 posted on 04/27/2014 11:41:32 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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