Email Shows IRS Official Was Pretty Happy About Obama Publicly Singling Out Conservative...

Townhall ^ | june 23, 2014 | Katie Pavlich

[maggief]

An email recently released by the House Oversight Committee shows IRS official Sarah Ingram was pretty excited about President Obama publicly speaking out against conservative groups with "secret donors." The email was sent from Ingram to Lois Lerner and others inside the tax agency after a glowing piece was published in the New York Times about the IRS and the trouble it was having with new tax exempt applicants and groups in light of the 2010 Citizen's United ruling.

"The 'secret donor' theme will continue -- see Obama salvo and today's Diane Reeham (sp). At least SS started the idea that we don't have the law to do something," the email reads.

[TigersEye]

I didn’t know they had color photography in Benjamin Franklin’s day.

[GeronL]

was that official promoted since then?

[BenLurkin]

Diane Rehm (born Diane Aed on September 21, 1936) is an American public radio talk show host. Her program, The Diane Rehm Show, is distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio. It is produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, D.C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Rehm

[longtermmemmory]

when SHALL they (meaning IRS personel) be going to jail?

When is the IRS official(s) going to be doing a perp walk?

[maggief]

One of the six is Nikole Flax.

[Cap Huff]

Well, Pavlich and Preston seem to have different information about her status.

[Fido969]

Diane Rehm, finally shown to be the hack we always knew her to be. Your tax dollars at work supporting PBS.

[JoeVet]

Yep .... with a baseball bat!

[Bogey78O]

“Will no one rid me of these turbulent conservatives?”

[Jacquerie]

Quite right.

What to do about it?

[maggief]

http://thedianerehmshow.org/topic/politics/shows/2012-10-19?page=91

Campaign Spending
September 21, 2010
Campaign spending for this year’s midterm elections is breaking records, but recent Supreme Court and Federal Election Commission decisions mean we know less about where the money is coming from. Diane and guests explore campaign finance...

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-09-21/campaign-spending/transcript

Campaign Spending
Transcript for: Campaign Spending

[sgtyork]

‘We don’t need the law to do something’…

So why isn’t this a smoking gun?

[GeronL]

short of a total reset? I dunno.

[smoothsailing]

The New York Times article referred to in the email is linked below. The "SS" in the email is Stephanie Strom, a co-writer of the Times article. Also mentioned in the email is "Marcus" who is referred to in the article:

The I.R.S. division with oversight of tax-exempt organizations “is understaffed, underfunded and operating under a tax system designed to collect taxes, not as a regulatory mechanism,” said Marcus S. Owens, a lawyer who once led that unit and now works for Caplin & Drysdale, a law firm popular with liberals seeking to set up nonprofit groups.

Donor Names Remain Secret as Rules Shift

The email clearly shows the IRS had a real cozy relationship with the leftist media and liberal political activists.

[tflabo]

GIGO UIUO instead. Ugaly in, ugaly out. (Mispelled for dramatics).

[alrea]

Every federal and government employee should be considered a part of the Democrat Party campaign apparatus

ping

[ken5050]

That’s Ben Franklin..

[Cowman]

What to do now? I'm not sure but I think a repeal of the 16th amendment would be the ultimate goal.

BTW This sort of thing was predicted when Wm J Bryan was pushing the 16th through

“A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man's counting house . . . The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hailed into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state . . . Who of us who have had knowledge of the doings of the Federal officials in the Internal Revenue service can be blind to what will follow?”

Virginia House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting what would happen if a federal income tax became law.

[Carriage Hill]

Looks like Karl Rove’s sister. LOL.

[maggief]

https://news.yahoo.com/two-key-irs-executives-obamacare-rollout-retire-memo-221638650—sector.html

Two key IRS executives in Obamacare rollout to retire: memo
Reuters
April 25, 2014 6:16 PM

(Reuters) - Two senior Internal Revenue Service executives who were instrumental in the rollout of President Barack Obama’s new healthcare law are retiring, according to an internal IRS memorandum obtained by Reuters on Friday.

Sarah Hall Ingram will step down at the end of April and James Taylor by the end of May, said the memo sent to IRS staff on behalf of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.