Posted on 11/04/2014 1:39:31 AM PST by taildragger
Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election, according to letters exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not want to publicly release 2012 correspondences exchanged between the IRS and Jeanne Shaheen at her personal Washington office: the agency delayed releasing the information to a major conservative super PAC multiple times, even threatening to see the super PAC in court, according to emails. (RELATED: Lois Lerner And Fellow IRS Official Announced Targeting At 2010 Conference Before Both Of Their Emails Went Missing)
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The memo, obtained by TheDC, briefed the Democratic senator about a coordinated IRS-Treasury Department plot to target political activity by nonprofit 501(c)(4) groups. The plot was operating out of Lois Lerner’s Tax Exempt Government Entities Division. (RELATED: Liens Filed Against Dem Senator Jeanne Shaheen And Her Husband For Failure To Pay Creditors)
“These regulations have been in place since 1959,” Wilkins wrote. “We will consider proposed changes in this area as we work with Tax-Exempt and Government Entities and the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy to identify tax issues that should be addressed” in designing new regulations and “guidance.”
“I hope this information is helpful,” Wilkins wrote. “I am sending a similar response to your colleagues. If you have questions, please contact me or have your staff contact Cathy Barre at (202) 622-3720.”
Shaheen got the inside info from the IRS, making it clear she was the point person in a group composed of six close Democratic colleagues including Chuck Schumer and Al Franken, who joined with Shaheen in quietly writing a letter to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman expressing their concern about new nonprofit groups engaging in political activity in 2012.
The Democratic senators’ publicly available March 9, 2012 letter asked the IRS to “immediately change the administrative framework for enforcement of the tax code as it applies to groups designated as ‘social welfare’ organizations” by introducing a new “bright line test” for how much a tax-exempt group can invest in political activity and by setting a new rule that at least 51 percent of a group’s activity must non-political. The senators called for more elaborate disclosures about finances and “undertakings” in groups’ form 990 submissions and sought new rules about how much donors could write off as business expenses. (RELATED: New Poll: Brown Leads Shaheen By A Point And A Half With One Week To Go)
A Freedom of Information Act request from a major conservative super PAC specifically identified “Jeanne Shaheen” as its Freedom of Information Act search term on the IRS scandal (and in Washington, folks, if YOUR NAME is the search term that the conservative super PAC uses in its bid to get public information, then you just might be involved in something).
Maybe that was the “October surprise” that Bob Beckel of Fox was talking about? /sarcasm off
Prison stripes for all. . . . . . .
Hopefully, he will.
Then, come Wednesday morning, Shaheen can say that Entercom happens. Fifty thousand watts' worth. South of the border.
It amazes me that as soon as the GOP gets on top they want to reach across the isle and all is forgiven instead of frying these bastards a##es
Prison stripes for all. . . . . . .
Best laugh I have had today, they will serve time when hell freezes over
It's not so amazing when you realize they are all in the pool of powerful and elites, and one thing that group does is look out for each other. Who knows, next week the taint could be flying toward a Republican politician. If the Republicans go hard, some day that will come back at them - goes around, comes around and all that.
Well at least I gave you a good laugh. . . . .
I might be missing something here and will stand corrected if someone wants to line me out.
OK, she is running against the same Brown that essentially helped to pass Obamacare. He got booted now is running again to out her.
She gets tied up in this IRS, time to go, right? Brown defeats her and she is basically untouchable. Hell, like the Republicans are going to touch anybody anyway, lol...
Now we got the same truck driving liberal Brown who votes with the Dimorats most of the time anyway.
So just how is this a win?
Texas, time to secede. Most of the nation is changing chairs on a sinking ship....and do not want to FIGHT to keep it afloat.
This WILL help Brown!
I knew of this months ago ... I thought most people here knew that there was this gang of dems who petitioned the IRS to investigate conservative groups, and Shitheen was part of it.
Sadly, too late to help him.
I really hope Brown wins big and is an early call to set the evening.
It will not hurt him though.
He sucks, but he's ten times better than Shaheen.
I guess you have to be from the Northeast to understand how bad it is here.
And he voted against Obamacare. His election should have ended it.
Ok, thanks for the correction. I knew we were counting on him for something and he let us down by voting with the democrats.
Again, thanks for the correction and you are correct, I do not know how bad it is in the Northeast and do not intend on finding out.
One thing for sure though, we are in this together. I feel the pain yawl are feeling everyday. I will stand with yawl to rid our nation of this blight in DC. Until there comes a time when this cannot be done and this dictator over runs the country with his private army (UN and mercs), Texas will batten down it’s hatches and give ‘em hell.
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