IRS Admits To A Smidgeon Of A Felony

Investor's Business Daily ^ | June 27, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Scandal: The Internal Revenue Service admits it broke the law after an organization whose private tax data are illegally shared with an ideological competitor wins its lawsuit. So who is going to prison for this federal crime?

If IRS Commissioner John Koskinen wants to know which criminal statutes have been broken, he might try reading about one in the morning newspapers, the same place President Obama gets his information about the "phony scandal" du jour.

The National Organization for Marriage has been awarded a $50,000 settlement from the IRS after the agency admitted wrongdoing in leaking the organization's 2008 tax return and the names and contact information of major donors. The information was forwarded from the IRS to the pro-gay marriage group Human Rights Campaign. That group then posted the data on its website during the 2012 presidential campaign. Unauthorized dissemination of such information is a felony.

[raptor22]

IRS SCANDAL PING

[BenLurkin]

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

— Louis D. Brandeis

[EagleUSA]

A Smidgeon of a felony? That is like being ‘partially pregnant’...

[Tzimisce]

When you see that the law no longer protects you from the corrupt but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.

-Ann Rand

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Didn’t Speaker Boner announce that the House would not be arresting Lois Lerner.. (just to give her peace of mind so she could sleep better)

[Army Air Corps]

It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny felony...

[Telepathic Intruder]

So either this scandal is phony or Obama is. It would be nice if just for once he takes responsibility for lying to the people he’s supposed to be serving.

[MUDDOG]

A Smidgeon of a felony? That is like being ‘partially pregnant’...

With Obamary's baby.

[kearnyirish2]

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

I always thought the Khmer Rouge and Vietcong killed government employees (cops, teachers, mayors) because they were symbols of a repressive regime; now I understand that they killed them because they WERE the repressive regime (from the Reds’ point of view).

[raptor22]

IRS SCANDAL PING

[windsorknot]

Get rid of the IRS. These are the same thugs that will be the enforcers of 0bamacare.

[LucyT]

Article and # 3.

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[Norm Lenhart]

Well it’s just a lesser evil. A smidgen of evil as it were.

[dalereed]

Put them in prison, a gross one or a smidgen one carries the same penalty!

[lepton]

A Smidgeon of a felony? That is like being ‘partially pregnant’...

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...With ten year old octuplets.

[raptor22]

IRS SCANDAL PING

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[JohnBovenmyer]

By any chance were there any State tax return information passed along that might give state prosecutors jurisdiction to step in where Holder refuses to tread?

[Popman]

I wonder at what point does the Obama administration punts and starts throwing people under the bus...