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."
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No you’re wrong. Do not blame Arizona’s republicans.
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.
PROOF he hates the TEA Party.
There was no Tea Party when she was chosen.
The top brass of the GOPe are in cahoots with the Dems. I’m not surprised at all.
Agreed! As a Vietnam Vet, McStain needs to go back to the black box and remain in a holding pattern for many years.
Sad, but true!
There are many criminal scum in both parties. They are beltway-addicted scumbags who will do anything to anyone in order to retain their power. May Justice find them.
He thinks his North Vietnamese captors won't punish him anymore. Sad stuff.
It’s a threat to him, because it involves large numbers of citizens who are taking back the power that he and others like him have always believed was rightfully theirs.
I would love to see Gowdy humiliate McStain. If anyone could bring him to tears I believe it would be Trey.
McCain is going to be running for office again. A commercial that exposes this "bipartisan deal" might actually get rid of this hater of all that is good once and for all.
On a side note, doesn't it seem queer (word chosen on purpose) how close he and Lindsey Graham are? I mean, they seem a little too close to just be friends or coworkers if you ask me. Something just doesn't seem right there.
The pressure from the families and Vietnam veterans finally forced the creation, in late 1991, of a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. The chairman was John Kerry. McCain, as a former POW, was its most pivotal member. In the end, the committee became part of the debunking machine.
One of the sharpest critics of the Pentagon’s performance was an insider, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe, who headed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during the 1970s. He openly challenged the Pentagon’s position that no live prisoners existed, saying that the evidence proved otherwise. McCain was a bitter opponent of Tighe, who was eventually pushed into retirement.
Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese general’s briefing of the Hanoi politburo, discovered in Soviet archives by an American scholar in 1993. The briefing took place only four months before the 1973 peace accords. The general, Tran Van Quang, told the politburo members that Hanoi was holding 1,205 American prisoners but would keep many of them at war’s end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington.
I am not a military person....but have a long memory.
to sniff/flush out the Proto-Tea Party
Trust me, as a Vietnam vet, we all knew where McCain was coming from, but it was hard to accept.
Your husband knew.
I understand.
Yes, I’d like to agree with you.
I had a number of heated discussion with people here on the forum who informed me McCain was the better candidate because the other guy had made an idiotic commercial and one other mis-step. So this can’t all be laid off at the feat of the Democrats.
McCain also had one high profile endorser that flat out lied to the Tea Party telling them McCain was one with them. This person made a radio spot endorsing McCain that played in several markets for months in Arizona.
I offered to go to Arizona and walk door to door to help get information out for McCain’s primary opponent. I did this a number of times on the forum. Not one person from Arizona made a favorable comment.
I told them specifically that John McCain would spend the next six years working against us. I said that we would see him cross Conservatives countless times.
It just didn’t matter. You get the big RNC GOPe folks pushing the party line, and you might just as well be talking to the DNC hotline. After all, that’s were McCain seems to get his talking points time after time after time.
His views on the Tea Party are well known. Not one peep from the people who championed his most visible endorser. Hey, they were repaying a favor. To heck with the nation, favors are so much more important.
Sen. McCain and Sen. Levin urged IRS to target Tea Party, conservative groups
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."
One of the released documents is a Lerner email from 2013 that she was willing to 'take a bullet" for Obama and his White House for the IRS scandal and that she understood why 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. - Obama had told the press that he first read about the IRS targeting of conservatives in the newspaper.
Check out article and comments.
I have had that opinion for years. At first, I thought something had happened while a POW but it goes deeper than that. He is just a dem with an R. I do not trust him one little bit.
Well, it certainly backfired on the SOB.
Keep it comin, Judicial Watch, you are our only true journalists in these dark times.
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