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Sens. McCain and Levin urged IRS to target Tea Party, conservative groups
examiner.com ^ | April 10, 2015 | Jim Kouri

Posted on 04/11/2015 4:22:02 PM PDT by dontreadthis

Government documents obtained by a top "Inside the Beltway" watchdog group and released on Thursday reveal that Internal Revenue Service's Lois Lerner was strongly urged by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, her assistance in attacking certain non-profit political groups. The organizations they selected for targeting by Lerner were part of the Tea Party and conservative movements.

Newly released documents revealed that Sen. Levin (left) and Sen. McCain both urged the IRS to target conservative groups in the wake of the Citizens United decision.

The group that investigates and exposes government corruption, Judicial Watch, released newly acquired IRS documents, including an email from Ms. Lerner in February 2012 requesting she “put together some training points to help them [IRS staffers] understand the potential pitfalls of revealing too much information to Congress."

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: irsscandal; karllenin; loislerner; mccain; mcpain; rino; taxes; teaparty; unicrats; uniparty
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To: dontreadthis

Isn’t McCain a rotten S.O.B.!!!!!!!!!!!! To think politicians wonder why we hate them.


81 posted on 04/11/2015 5:31:55 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Popman
The Keating fiasco told me all I needed to know. Since '89 I've lost respect for the man.

/johnny

82 posted on 04/11/2015 5:32:00 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Carry me back

Yep. We see the Commie plan: Kerry, McCain, Carter, Clinton, Zero.


83 posted on 04/11/2015 5:32:33 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: dontreadthis

This needs to be breaking....front page news IMHO.


84 posted on 04/11/2015 5:32:39 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the ping!

This part brings back memories of Nixon:

“.... the targeting of Tea Party organizations and other conservative groups may raise questions - regarding what did President Obama know and when did he know it. - ...”

They got Nixon on his —planning— to use the IRS on his enemies

... 0 and this bunch have actually —used— the IRS against their enemies.

IMPEACH!!!!!


85 posted on 04/11/2015 5:32:47 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Hostage

“McCain, just as Cochran in Mississippi, uses democrat voters to crossover and vote in the republican primary assuring him the party nomination. In the general, Arizona’s republicans have no choice but to vote McCain over the democrat, if they vote at all.”

Then the Arizona Repubican Party needs to fix the primary rules. There is simply no excuse (other than I suspect that the AZ Repubican Party is run by the GOPE) for their primary system to allow such behavior. As an Arizonian, I’d be mighty pi$$ed off to have my state’s GOP equated with that of Mississlopy.


86 posted on 04/11/2015 5:33:46 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: txhurl

You leave a lot on the table, McLettuce wanted Lieberman as his vice an Kerry wanted McLettuce as his vice


87 posted on 04/11/2015 5:36:32 PM PDT by advertising guy ( panties - not the best thing on earth, but next to it .)
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To: vette6387

Does anyone realize how many girls and women have
been raped and sold ONLY because of Arizona’s McCain
actively working with Obama-the-Terrorist supporter????


88 posted on 04/11/2015 5:36:56 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Rusty0604

‘You have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency’ while putting his campaign on ‘hold’.


89 posted on 04/11/2015 5:37:14 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: cpdiii

I don’t. As a pilot in Vietnam, I don’t honor McStain. As a pilot he lost 3 aircraft and failed the military training and as an American, he failed to resist the enemy, or as a politician where he has been a failure to conservatives.


90 posted on 04/11/2015 5:39:48 PM PDT by Balata
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love the Solzhenitsyn quote from the Gulag Archipelago.
I think it’s high time for truth or un-intended (or otherwise) consequences.


91 posted on 04/11/2015 5:42:48 PM PDT by semaj
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To: Darksheare
"In a just world, a bunch of those jerks would be wearing tar and feathers while being chased by angry mobs."

No, in a just world they would be dead.

92 posted on 04/11/2015 5:43:53 PM PDT by semaj
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for posting that. Profound words that make you stop in your tracks, and fear that that may be our children and grandchildrens future.


93 posted on 04/11/2015 5:45:43 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: semaj

That’s what the angry mob chasing them is for.
Imagine that Alice Cooper show where he threw the chicken back into the audience.
The audience is the angry mob, the chicken is the politician.


94 posted on 04/11/2015 5:45:54 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: spokeshave; onyx; LucyT

Many thanks for the info!

McSlime was bought.... what was the price of his position?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3278222/posts?page=51#51

Onyx, LucyT

Ping to #51


95 posted on 04/11/2015 5:47:28 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Darksheare
"Imagine that Alice Cooper show where he threw the chicken back into the audience."

Alice for President? I would wager he is more of a patriot than many currently occupying the halls of government.

96 posted on 04/11/2015 5:51:54 PM PDT by semaj
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To: Popman
"No big deal...to McCain we are Hobbits anyway..."


97 posted on 04/11/2015 5:53:35 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: semaj
Alice Cooper: "Elected"
98 posted on 04/11/2015 5:54:14 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: txhurl

Are you nuts? Tea Party happened after Obama was elected. Geesh


99 posted on 04/11/2015 5:56:22 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Because that is the party that Ted Cruz is running on.

Ted Cruz 2016


100 posted on 04/11/2015 5:57:14 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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