Posted on 12/22/2014 6:14:58 PM PST by PROCON
Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.
The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed “icky.” (That’s right. “Icky.”)
“The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS’s targeting of conservative applicants,” the Oversight report states. “Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS’s targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.”
Here are six major takeaways from the report:
1. The IRS admitted that the front office was “spinning” about the targeting rumors as early as 2012, after IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman denied the tea party targeting to Congress.
“This is what the front office and [IRS Chief of Communications and Liaison] Frank [Keith] are spinning about now,” an IRS legislative affairs office employee wrote in an email to co-workers, referring to a news article on Shulman’s dishonest testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, in which he denied rumors of improper targeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Mainstream media picking this up in 3...2...1...
I guess that this means there are un-icky conservative groups? Like to have that list. ;-)
Icky? What are they, eight years old?
“Bombshell” has been overused to the extent of now being meaningless.
No, I’m afraid to a lib we’re all “Icky”.
Ickey Woods?
whereas obama is pure scum
You're right and it actually denotes violence.
I'll self-censure next time :-)
LOL! So true, so true.
I think Icky Woods is much older.
Another bombshell that will go *poof*
“Icky” to me means a lice laden, filthy black braid gov’t employee that hasn’t washed in months!
But, of course don't expect anything until after the 1st of the year, when, if the 'pubs have any balls, things could get ugly for Obama and the IRS.
Releasing this report two days before Christmas shows Issa wasn’t serious about this investigation. Those who lied to Congress need to go to jail. Scooter Libby gave an incorrect date in his testimony to the FBI in the Valerie Plame fiasco and was jailed for over 3 Years. These partisans told bald-faced lies in the testimony. That should be good for at least 10 years.
Really. They sound like Sony executives.
A report released Christmas week a “bombshell” ?
This scandal alone is so much worse than Nixon every did. Yet Obama will likely never be held accountable because too many powerful people are complicit.
Why would the GOP act on the IRS’s targeting of conservatives? Conservatives are the enemy of both of the liberal parties, not just the Democrats.
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