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New Emails: Democratic Senator Pressured IRS To Target Groups
The Daily Caller ^ | 05/14/2014 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 05/14/2014 1:39:50 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike

The IRS’ Washington, D.C. headquarters targeted conservative groups in part due to pressure from Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, according to emails obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch and reviewed by The Daily Caller.

Levin, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ permanent subcommittee on investigations, wrote a March 30, 2012 letter to then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman discussing the “urgency” of the issue of possible political activity by nonprofit applicants. Levin asked if the IRS was sending out additional information requests to applicant groups and citing an IRS rejection letter to a conservative group as an example of how the IRS should be conducting its business.

A top IRS official replied that the agency could send out “individualized questions and requests.”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americans4prosperity; carllevin; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; irs; irsemails; irsteapartyscandal; kochbrothers; levin; mostethicalever; pelosicongress; shulman
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To: Engedi

Exactly! We who have suffered with Levin as our Senator, rejoiced when we heard he would not run again. Now we know why, he knew these documents would be coming out.


41 posted on 05/15/2014 3:59:24 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: MrB

-—They see no ethical barriers as long as their goal of the acquisition of power is advanced.——

Or as Karl Mark said: “The ends justifies means”

I wonder if all these dims understand they are the other side of the same Marxist coin.... ?


42 posted on 05/15/2014 4:05:29 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

It sounds like CONSPIRACY to me. Not only was the White House involved, now there is proof Congress was involved.


43 posted on 05/15/2014 4:43:40 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: tet68
I thought Schumer was one too...

I'm pretty sure Schmucky was neck deep in this crap.

44 posted on 05/15/2014 4:52:28 AM PDT by Marathoner (What are we waiting for? Where are the Articles of Impeachment?)
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To: GOPJ
That’s how democrats always act...

indeed they do! hence i am shocked that they actually handed over the emails... i cannot believe they didn't remove the "telling" ones...

45 posted on 05/15/2014 6:21:20 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: latina4dubya
Democrats were required to hand over the emails... there's nothing moral or ethical about Democrats. They stall, lie, and do what they can to stop the truth from coming out... BUT if they're in the spotlight cornered - and something legal is required of them - they do the least they can get away with. In this case the 'least' was releasing some emails.

Always assume that's the case with them.. The emails were the least they could do and still be functioning within the law... (the spotlight is on them after all...)

46 posted on 05/15/2014 8:17:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
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To: latina4dubya

The only other explanation is it’s helps Hillary. Remember there’s no such thing as a moral or ethical democrat.


47 posted on 05/15/2014 8:18:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
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To: GOPJ
Democrats were required to hand over the emails...

again, that is why i am shocked that they handed over the emails... as i said before, they do not seem to care what is required, what is the law, what is protocol... they do not care if they meet any request... but they did here, and i am surprised...

48 posted on 05/15/2014 8:44:05 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Principled

hey principled, please check your mail


49 posted on 05/16/2014 5:25:47 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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