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 ...
“FAIR TAX”
If the lapdog media had an ounce of integrity, they would be demanding that Obama step down.
You and I both know that "not a smidgen of corruption" was a lie; remember though, the 'pubs are in charge next year, this could get interesting.
So if the Republicans had just asked the right questions the would have fessed up. yeah, right.
This is so much worse than anything Nixon did, yet the left simply does not care.
No and no. If I am not mistaken, I think only shithead Holder can prosecute these EVIL scum bags, and if the next predident is a RINO, out of professional courtesy, they will not pursue it any further. And these EVIL scum bags wonder why we think a civil war is inevitable.
Nixon was threatened with impeachment for less than this with the IRS, so how about it eGOP? *chirp* *chirp*
This is why the eGOP will never see my vote again.
Does DiFi have any more torture reports she can release? Tomorrow would be the day to do it.
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Patrick Howley, Political Reporter can expect a call from the IRS sometime soon.
Repeal the 16th and abolish the IRS. Yes!!!
I agree —”BOMBSHELL” has been so overused that for me it brings on an almost totally opposite effect than the one intended.
It’s so embittering, as I see the IRS scandals as some of the most important in the country.
They give 8-year-olds a bad name.
Indeed. I think it’s likely the GOP was/is secretly cheering on the IRS.
Politicization is inherent to the IRS. It’s the size of the Russian army after Stalingrad and as intrusive as the KGB and very expensive to operate. Let’s get rid of this turkey and go to a fair tax or a value added tax and free up IRS employees to pursue employment working at a real job..
Big Deal. I wish that someone would be held responsible but law only works against the voter.
Once again, the public will be shown the corruption and the people in charge of it will just forget about it because another pile of feces shows up.
Only one way to fix the people running our government......
In the past, corruption on this scale would bring down an entire administration.
If it weren’t for this, America would have been spared the last four years of Obamunist destruction.
Well, for that, I think I am going to wipe a booger on the next IRS agent I see.
10 years in prison, loss of pension and the right to vote removed.
Anyone who didn’t have his/her head up their nether regions back in 2008 knew this is exactly what would happen if Obama got elected.
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