Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general’s report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner.
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The agency blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware.
But on June 29, 2011, Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog’s report. At the meeting, she was told that groups with “Tea Party,” `’Patriot” or “9/12 Project” in their names were being flagged for additional and often burdensome scrutiny, the report says.
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The Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration is expected to release the results of a nearly yearlong investigation in the coming week. The AP obtained part of the draft report, which has been shared with congressional aides.
Among the other revelations, on Aug. 4, 2011, staffers in the IRS’ Rulings and Agreements office “held a meeting with chief counsel so that everyone would have the latest information on the issue.”
On Jan, 25, 2012, the criteria for flagging suspect groups was changed to, “political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement,” the report says.
The Democrats and media demonized the Tea Party and Homeland Security painted smaller government groups as potential threats, and guess who gets targeted by the IRS.
will they do something about it is another matter see: obamacare
Cantor: House Will Investigate IRS for Targeting Tea Party Groups
” I mean, if we found out Karl Rove was behind all this, would we be terribly shocked at this point?”
Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. His 6-year term ended in November. President Barack Obama has yet to nominate a successor. The agency is now run by an acting commissioner, Steven Miller.
One might draw lines of comparison with Korematsu in this case.
But indeed, it simply does not matter what party anyone found to be applying the instrumentalities of government to hound a non-treasonous political entity may happen to hold to: those persons need to be prosecuted with the full weight of the law here, be they Democrat or Republican makes no matter.
“Shulman has also worked in government, first as Senior Policy Advisor and later as Chief of Staff for the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 1996 to 1997. Co-chaired by Congressman Rob Portman (R-Oh.) and Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Ne.), the bi-partisan commission was instituted to conduct a major restructuring of the IRS, and Shulman led the analysis of all the major components of the restructuring effort. He also directed the House and Senate legislative strategy, which culminated in the passage of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act in July 1998.”
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mr shulman gave $200 to rob portman and $500 to the dnc
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mr shulman has very good “ruining” class bona fides
Article 2
Using the powers of the office of President of the United States,
Richard M. NixonBarack H Obama, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.This conduct has included one or more of the following:
1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
You mean this IRS?
In communications to my congresspersons lately I’ve rediscovered the utility of the word outrage.
As in I demand illegalities be redressed, especially those involving agencies impinging my rights so as to render me their subservient and various of my property no longer mine.
That is all.
Ways and Means Committee to IRS: “You’re fucked!” For starters.
*** The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight has thrown down an investigative gauntlet to the Internal Revenue Service, demanding that the agency hand over by next Wednesday every communication in its records that includes the words “tea party,” “patriot” or “conservative.”
The committee is also demanding of the IRS that by next Wednesday it provide the committee with the names and titles of all individuals who were involved in targeting conservative non-profit groups for more intensive review of their applications for non-profit status. ***
3/8/12 The I.R.S. Does Its Job
“That Emmanuel Goldstein is a rat bastard…”
You know who this benefits?
Mitt RomneyNeil Boortz!the rove stuff is right as far as bushtards are concerned. a hey to rob portman
funny how mr shulman got an ok from mr reid
*** The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight has thrown down an investigative gauntlet to the Internal Revenue Service, demanding that the agency hand over by next Wednesday every communication in its records that includes the words “tea party,” “patriot” or “conservative.”
The House GOP is just pissed that the IRS is stepping on their turf. Crushing the TEA Party? That’s Boehner’s job!
“rob us” portman sucks rove’s “ruining class” member. tar, feathers no. let down on “american idol” yes. for the liv vote
rob portman did the gayz recently like rovester
Karl Rove On Gay Marriage: ‘I Could’ See A GOP Candidate Supporting It In 2016 (VIDEO)
I heard about this! Let’s see, where was it…?
Oh yeah.
Of course, give a government bureaucracy something, and the results are predictable.
Happy Saturday evening, all.
Is this the greatest punk ska cover of them all? I’m going with a tentative yes.
And here we find a version somewhere between 311 and a lounge band. Kinda like it, to be honest.
Hey BH, how are ya? Back to clutter flooding?
I got a new backyard toy to play with today. So far I’ve only made tasty beef kabobs on it. I was going to make tasty chicken bacon ranch Quesadeas like you used to see on TV ads for Chilis, but I saw the kabobs while I was looking for chicken and they looked like they would be tastier. And besides, Chilis might find out that I deconstructed their recipe and use their corporate leverage to pass a law preventing home “chef’s” from saying shit, I could make that after seeing a TV commercial for tasty prepackaged reheated food served in a family friendly atmosphere. Perhaps by requiring everybody to get a cooking certificate from a government certified school.
Or would that be giving them ideas?
A new grill? Sweet.
Hmmm… these are tricky questions you raise.
After going through the 2005 food code, I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to cook regardless. I’m also fairly certain I’m also in violation by letting you know this. May I recommend pretending that you’re creating transgressive art instead?
God knows, in the theater of the absurd that is today’s United States of America, it won’t be long before some agency starts running PSAs telling people that they should join their children for breakfast lunch and supper at the public schools —because the food is better for you.
But yeah, the grill is sweet. Discontinued model on clearance. Needed a new charcoal kettle anyways. My old one is 15 years old and needed a rebuild –new legs, new grates, that sort of thing. The cart should be a more stable, and the wife will appreciate me not stealing all her outdoor tables off the patio every time I decide to go charcoal instead of propane.
Because I like to organize horizontally instead of vertically.
Maybe I should organize and host a neighborhood cookout as an act of disobedience.
Or would that get the FDA sturmtruppen called out?
Did IRS commissioner Doug Shulman, a Bush appointee, know about the targeting of Tea Party groups ? It has been reported that IRS chief counsel, William J. Wilkins, an Obama appointee, not only knew, but met with the group performing the inquiry. Are we to believe that these guys never talked, or that the chief counsel wasrunning his own “game on the side” ?
If Shulman didn’t know, then this scandal will take on a partisan quality, if he knew it takes a diabolic quality.
Followup:
While Shulman was a Bush appointee, according to the FEC has given to just the DNC. Bush made a truly “non-political” decision to appoint someone to a non-political post which IRS appointees are supposed to be, but your true politics is where you spend your dimes. Schulman is a Democrat donor.
There is no such thing as non-political decisionmaking in government. When you (I’m using the impersonal “you,” in case anyone wonders) demand more and bigger government you get more politics in your everyday life.
And then you biiiiiitch and whiiiiiine about politics, as if you had nothing to do with inflicting this plague on yourself. “There is no justice” is heard all across the land, in clear contradiction of the observable reality.
But then, the demand for more and bigger government is itself in direct contradiction of observable reality.
Did anyone else catch this from the post?
he was told that groups with “Tea Party,” `’Patriot” or “9/12 Project”
So the IRS was going after Glen Beck & friends, too.
I wonder if they would have flagged “outlaw.”
“Armadillo” would have been too obvious though.
I’m watching FNS and Dennis Kucinich is a guest. He looks remarkably like Renfield.
rino roaring
Collins Demands Public Apology From Obama for IRS Scandal
“It is absolutely chilling that the IRS was singling out conservative groups for extra review and I think that it’s very disappointing that the president hasn’t personally condemned this and spoken out,” she told CNN’s Candy Crowley.
lobsterpot bimbo is *easily* the leastest self-aware senatewhore this side of meghan’s coward daddy
Ways and Means to IRS: ‘Provide All Communications Containing Words ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Patriot,’ or ‘Conservative’—By Wednesday
Collins is retiring isn’t she? Her speech is kind of impaired, like she has Parkinson’s.
she been there an obscenely long time
wasted her whole goddamn life being a senatewhore practically
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