Thread: IRS Targets Conservatives

Another faux scandal concocted by Republicans is crumbling like all the others. The alleged motive is that these groups were kept from fully participating in their activities until after the election. The reality is that you don't even need to apply to the IRS for 501(c)4 status. Organizations simply "self declare" as such, proceed with their activities and file their form 990.

The independent Inspector General, a Bush appointee, already found that there was no political bias. The heightened scrutiny of these groups was initiated by a self-described "conservative Republican" civil servant supervised by a Bush appointee while the IRS was being run by a Bush appointee.

The IG investigation and report found that the groups were properly being scrutinized to assess if they crossed the line from issue advocacy to partisan electioneering.

Since these obviously political organizations were trying to pass themselves off as charitable social welfare organizations, the real scandal may be the fact that none of them were rejected for such status.


Jim Ward

Silly Boontard.

Spamming falsehoods over and over does not make them true.

Show us some facts and evidence. Show us some indictments and convictions.

I know you really, really want to believe that this is the most corrupt Administration ever but you have nothing, zero to back up your allegations.

For the record, the most corrupt Administration ever was the Reagan Administration, clocking in with a whopping 138 assorted indictments and convictions.

This "scandal" only exists in the right wing blogosphere. Everyone else knows it's partisan nonsense.

IRS official in D.C. reviewed tea party applications

Closer and closer...drip, drip, drip

Didn't catch Tricky Dick right away either, did we?

Obama Gurl: Holly Paz, Who Donated $4000 to Obama in 2008, Personally Supervised Tea Party Scrutiny

Remember, this is the woman who now claims she thought "Tea Party" could mean "liberal."

$4000 is a lot of money for someone who works for wages and isn't just sitting on a huge pile of wealth.

"A Washington-based IRS supervisor acknowledged she was personally involved in reviewing Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status as far back as 2010, Fox News confirms — a detail that further challenges the agency’s initial claim that the practice of singling out those groups was limited to a handful of employees in Ohio.

Congressional sources confirmed to Fox News that Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status, told congressional investigators she reviewed 20 to 30 applications. Some requests languished for more than a year without action.
The account undercuts the narrative that senior officials only learned of the practice after it had already started in the Cincinnati office."

Holly Paz, a supervisor in the IRS's Washington, DC office that issued rulings on tax-exempt groups, made a $2,000 contribution directly to the Obama for America war chest, and another $2,000 to the separate Obama Victory Fund, both in 2008, according to Federal Election Commission documents. She has also been named as the attorney who monitored interviews conducted with IRS employees by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George, as he investigated what would explode in May 2013 as a major crisis for the White House."

IRS lawyer who donated $4,000 to Obama's 2008 campaign, and hovered over Inspector General interviews with employees, emerges as villain in tea party scandal | Mail Online

And how are the networks reporting this? Simple, they're not.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

And how are the networks reporting this? Simple, they're not.

^ Cuz it isn't news Boontard, it's just another partisan witch hunt.

No evidence of a grand conspiracy, no link to the White House, simply a bunch of Anti-Tax Tea Bagger groups crying because they got busted for lying on their applications.

The IRS Scandal, Day 40

• American Spectator: Keep the IRS Scandal Alive
• American Thinker: IRS Fires Another...
• Bloomberg: IRS Couldn’t Process Groups’ Cases Quickly Enough, Manager Says
• Bloomberg: Lew Sees No Evidence of Political Involvement in IRS Targeting
• CBS News: IRS Scandal: Is Partisanship Overshadowing Facts?
• Cincinnati Enquirer: IRS Scrutinized Pro-Kasich Group
• CNN Poll: Did White House order IRS targeting?
• Daily Beast: D.C. IRS Knew About Targeting
• Daily Mail: IRS Lawyer Who Donated $4,000 to Obama's 2008 Campaign, and Hovered Over Inspector General Interviews with Subordinates, Emerges as Villain in Tea Party Scandal
• Fox News: Former IRS Boss Involved in Decision to Use Planted Question to Address Scandal
• Fox News: Should IRS Remain in Charge of Enforcing ObamaCare?
• The Hill: Glenn Beck to Attend 'Audit the IRS' Rally at Capitol
• The Hill: IRS Official: 'Apolitical' Ohio Staffers Not Sensitive Enough
• Huffington Post: IRS Investigation: Darrell Issa Releases More Partial Transcripts Despite Calls For Full Accounts
• Human Events: IRS Supervisor: “Tea Party” Was Just Our Little Pet Name for Everyone
• National Review: Publicly Evenly Split on Belief in White House Direction of IRS Scandal
• New York Post: IRS Tea(m) No Rogue
• Philadelphia Inquirer editorial: Problem Larger Than IRS Role
• Renew America: Why Does Rep. Cummings Want House Investigation of IRS Scandal to Stop Before Catherine Engelbrecht Testifies?
• Sacramento Bee: Activist Groups: IRS Reviewed Us Under Previous Presidents
• Wall Street Journal: Treasury's Lew: IRS Set to Recommend Changes
• Wall Street Journal: Where's the FBI? Targeted Conservative Groups Have Not Been Contacted
• Washington Post: What Did Holly Paz Tell IRS Investigators?
• Washington Times: IRS Supervisor in D.C. Reviewed Tea Party Cases

You know, if the FBI was 'all over' these investigations into the criminal acts the IRS perpetrated how come no Tea Party Groups have been interviewed as yet?

Stick a fork in him, he's done

Darrell Issa Furious After Democrat Releases IRS Transcript That Blows Up His Investigation

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, released more than 200 pages of interview transcripts Tuesday afternoon after the committee's Chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), refused to do so.
Cummings is seeking to dispel any notion that targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service was ordered from Washington.
Cummings released transcripts with an IRS screening group manager described as a "conservative Republican," who said that the targeting of the Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status started with low-level workers in Cincinnati. The witness also said that there was no communication on the targeting with any senior IRS officials or with anyone in Washington or the Obama administration.


From Page 141 of the transcripts:

The release of the transcripts came after two weeks of back-and-forth squabbling between Cummings and Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who Cummings accused of selectively releasing portions of the transcripts.
Cummings called on Issa to release the entire transcripts, which Issa said would harm the investigation. Cummings asked him for specific reasons, and demanded he respond by Monday. When Issa didn't respond, Cummings released the entirety of the transcripts.


Darrell Issa Furious After Democrat Releases IRS Transcript That Blows Up His Investigation - seattlepi.com

Ain't that the truth...

^ Funny, the only guy caught lying so far is that car thief Issa...

as far the possibility of WH involvement is concerned, this is well and truly over....by releasing the full transcripts, rep. cummings has exposed "issa the cherry picker"....yet another manufactured GOP scandal which results in no there being there.

if the mood strikes me, i'm going to go back and pull up some of the breathless quotes from about a months ago..a few of the phrases that spring to mind:

"enemies list"
"impeachment"
"nixonian"
" ten times worse than watergate"
" of course obama knew"
"obama was complicit"



as predicted, you can stack this faux scandal right up there with the others: solyndra, fast and furious, benghazi, etc...

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Cummings called on Issa to release the entire transcripts, which Issa said would harm the investigation.

Issa was kinda right about that, it harmed his investigation by showing there was nothing to really investigate and what there was had fuck all to do with the White House.

from what i've heard and read about issa, he's got a weird complex about people not giving him the 'respect he deserves". apparently he's very bothered by the fact that no one takes him seriously despite the powerful position he holds.

cummings releasing all the documents probably caused issa to have a conniption fit of epic proportions.

The IRS Scandal, Day 41

• American Thinker: What the IRS Has Become
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Democrats' IRS Testimony 'Bombshell' Is a Big Nothingburger
• The Atlantic: The Great Battle Over the IRS Scandal Enters the Please-Let-It-End Phase
• Bloomberg: How IRS Says One Tea Party Application Goaded Controversy
• Business Insider: Darrell Issa Furious After Democrat Releases IRS Transcript That Blows Up His Investigation
• CNN: Shifting IRS polls Contradict Key Deposition
• Commentary: The “Apolitical” Fantasy and the IRS
• Fiscal Times: Investigators Coming Up Short on IRS 'Conspiracy'
• The Hill: Cummings Releases IRS Interview Transcripts
• The Hill: IRS Official Denies Politics Were Behind Tea Party Targeting
• The Hill: 47 Percent Think White House Involved in IRS Targeting
• Houston Chronicle: Darrell Issa Furious After Democrat Releases IRS Transcript That Blows Up His Investigation
• Houston Chronicle: IRS Official Contradicts Claims About Reviews
• Huffington Post: Holly Paz, IRS Supervisor, Admits Scrutinizing Applications From Tea Party Groups
• Huffington Post: IRS Officials: Washington Was Not Involved In Targeting Of Conservative Groups
• Huffington Post: Juan Williams Flips Out at Bill O'Reilly Over IRS Scandal
• Huffington Post: Tea Party: 'Audit The IRS' Rally Will Be Movement's 'Largest Demonstration' Since 2010
• L.A. Times: IRS Manager Says Tea Party Groups Not Politically Targeted
• McClatchy: IRS Cases Were Referred to ‘Group 7822’
• MSNBC: Bucking Issa, Cummings Releases IRS Transcript
• MSNBC: IRS ‘Scandal’: Issa’s Case Crumbles After Release of Transcripts
• MSNBC: Issa’s Hypocritical ‘Selective’ Information
• MSNBC: Will Releasing the IRS Transcripts Kill the Conspiracy Theories?
• NPR: Liberal Groups Say They Received IRS Scrutiny Too
• NPR: Six Surprising Things About the IRS Scandal
• Politico: Dems Release Their Own IRS Transcripts
• Reason: Democrats Downplay D.C. Role in IRS Targeting of Conservatives
• Salon: War Against Issa Heats Up, as Cummings Releases IRS Transcript
• Slate: Republicans Can't Say That Obama Was Behind the IRS' Tea Party Campaign, but Pollsters Can
• Town Hall: Poll: 70 Percent Believe IRS Targeting Started in Washington D.C.
• USA Today: Republican at Cincinnati IRS: Scrutiny Was 'Normal'
• Wall Street Journal: Issa, Cummings Fight Publicly Over Interview Transcript
• Wall Street Journal: New IRS Interview: More Blip Than Bombshell
• Washington Post Fact Checker: The Claim That the White House Was ‘Aware’ of the IRS Behavior: Three Pinocchios
• Washington Post: Full House Committee Transcripts Shed New Light on Genesis of IRS Targeting
• Washington Post: How the IRS Keeps the $4.3 Trillion Nonprofit World Secret
• Washington Post: Rep. Elijah Cummings Releases a Full IRS Interview Transcript
• Washington Times op-ed: Moving a Washington Scandal Out of Town: The Left’s Outrage Over the IRS Turns to a Plea to ‘Move On’, by Jay Sekulow
• Washington Times: Cummings: Full IRS Interview Shows White House Didn’t Direct Tea Party Targeting
• Washington Times: Sen. Chuck Grassley: IRS Poised to Pay $70M in Employee Bonuses
• The Week: The House's Cold War Over the IRS Scandal Just Turned Hot

Instead of withering away as a so-called 'non-scandal', these issues are becoming more and more pronounced. And the folks want answers.

IRS TO HAND OUT 70 MILLION DOLLARS IN BONUSES:

"Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses. The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it’s merely following legal obligations under a union contract.

The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.

Grassley says his office has learned that the IRS was to execute an agreement with the employees’ union Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office."

IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses
Even after all the Scandal they shove this in our faces...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

IRS TO HAND OUT 70 MILLION DOLLARS IN BONUSES:

"Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses. The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it’s merely following legal obligations under a union contract.

The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.

Grassley says his office has learned that the IRS was to execute an agreement with the employees’ union Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office."

IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses
Even after all the Scandal they shove this in our faces...

What part of "legal obligations under a union contract" don't you understand Boontard?

Suck on it old man. This Rethuglican faux-scandal is done.

The IRS Scandal, Day 42

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: More GOP Deception on IRS Investigation
• Bloomberg: IRS Employee Used Politics Test an Executive Said Didn’t Exist
• CNN: Conservative Activists Rip IRS at Rally
• Daily Beast: IRS "Scandal" Is Over, Public Thinks It's Growing
• Esquire: Darrell Issa Gets Played
• Fiscal Times: IRS Defies Obama Directive, Awards $70M in Bonuses
• Heritage Foundation: Tea Party Protests IRS at U.S. Capitol Rally
• The Hill: Camp Promises Tea Party Activists to Pursue IRS Leads
• The Hill: Grassley Questions IRS Bonuses
• The Hill: Paul: Fire IRS Agents Responsible for Health Law Implementation
• Mother Jones: Darrell Issa Wins Yet Another Chutzpah Award, by Kevin Drum
• MSNBC: Bachmann’s Last IRS Stand: Targeting ‘Worst Form of Tyranny’
• MSNBC: Tea Party Sees ‘Barack O’Nixon’ Behind IRS Targeting
• National Review: IRS Abuse -- More Widespread Than the Media Comprehend
• National Review: IRS to Pay $70 Million in Bonuses?
• Politico: Glenn Beck Tea Party Rally Hears From Dave Camp
• PolitiFact: Rep. Mike Rogers Says the IRS Scandal "Clearly Showed Some criminal Behavior": Mostly False
• Roll Call: Coburn: Treasury’s Still Stonewalling IRS Conference Spending Inquiry
• Salon: Dem Congressman to Sue IRS Over “Social Welfare” Rules
• Slate: Scandal 2.0: How the Tea Party and its Backers Are Making Sure the IRS Scandal Will Live On
• Town Hall: Thousands of Tea Partiers Pack Capitol For "Audit the IRS" Rally
• U.S. News & World Report: Tea Party 'Audit the IRS' Rally About a Lot More Than the Tax Man
• Wall Street Journal: GOP Lawmakers Press FBI on IRS Probe
• Wall Stret Journal: Tea Party Protesters Rally Against IRS, Government
• Washington Post: At Tea Party Rally, the IRS Is a Useful Villain
• Washington Post: Grassley: IRS About to Pay $70 Million in Bonuses
• Washington Post: IRS Draws New Criticism Over $70M in Employee Bonuses, Says It's Bound by Union Contract
• Washington Times: Thousands Rally as Tea Party Groups Stage Major IRS Protest Outside Capitol

Lies and more lies, from lying liars. These Scandals just keep getting more & more revealing...

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666

That pretty much proves a obama isn't the devil.

Now here's a real Shocker!

IRS Office Let Union Group Escape Tax Exempt Scrutiny

"The Restaurant Opportunities Center has slipped IRS scrutiny, and critics of the nonprofit are asking why.

A complaint filed by a coalition of restaurant owners with the federal tax authority alleges the 501(c)(3) labor nonprofit has received special treatment.
Florida Watchdog has obtained a copy of ROC’s tax exempt acceptance letter, dated June 1, 2010, and approved by Robert Choi, director of exempt organizations at the Cincinnati office of the Internal Revenue Service.
The Cincinnati office is blamed for much of the harassment and delay tactics incurred by conservative groups applying for similar tax exempt treatment, which is no fault of ROC.

What is of concern, according to a coalition of restaurant owners and workers calling itself the Restaurant Opportunities Center Exposed, is the multi-state “union front” continues to slip by the watchful eye of the IRS.

“It does raise the question of whether they’re receiving a pass because they’re ideologically in line with the administration. But we’ll have to see if the IRS will now investigate. We’ve presented them with some pretty strong documentation of lobbying and we’ve juxtaposed that with filings the IRS already has in their possession,” said Mike Paranzino, communications director for ROC Exposed."

Union-tied group slips IRS scrutiny | Fox News

Imagine that!

Originally Posted by sabang

The real shocker is that you obsessively pursue these floating hulks, long dead...

Long dead?

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: More GOP Deception on IRS Investigation
• Bloomberg: IRS Employee Used Politics Test an Executive Said Didn’t Exist
• CNN: Conservative Activists Rip IRS at Rally
• Daily Beast: IRS "Scandal" Is Over, Public Thinks It's Growing
• Esquire: Darrell Issa Gets Played
• Fiscal Times: IRS Defies Obama Directive, Awards $70M in Bonuses
• Heritage Foundation: Tea Party Protests IRS at U.S. Capitol Rally
• The Hill: Camp Promises Tea Party Activists to Pursue IRS Leads
• The Hill: Grassley Questions IRS Bonuses
• The Hill: Paul: Fire IRS Agents Responsible for Health Law Implementation
• Mother Jones: Darrell Issa Wins Yet Another Chutzpah Award, by Kevin Drum
• MSNBC: Bachmann’s Last IRS Stand: Targeting ‘Worst Form of Tyranny’
• MSNBC: Tea Party Sees ‘Barack O’Nixon’ Behind IRS Targeting
• National Review: IRS Abuse -- More Widespread Than the Media Comprehend
• National Review: IRS to Pay $70 Million in Bonuses?
• Politico: Glenn Beck Tea Party Rally Hears From Dave Camp
• PolitiFact: Rep. Mike Rogers Says the IRS Scandal "Clearly Showed Some criminal Behavior": Mostly False
• Roll Call: Coburn: Treasury’s Still Stonewalling IRS Conference Spending Inquiry
• Salon: Dem Congressman to Sue IRS Over “Social Welfare” Rules
• Slate: Scandal 2.0: How the Tea Party and its Backers Are Making Sure the IRS Scandal Will Live On
• Town Hall: Thousands of Tea Partiers Pack Capitol For "Audit the IRS" Rally
• U.S. News & World Report: Tea Party 'Audit the IRS' Rally About a Lot More Than the Tax Man
• Wall Street Journal: GOP Lawmakers Press FBI on IRS Probe
• Wall Stret Journal: Tea Party Protesters Rally Against IRS, Government
• Washington Post: At Tea Party Rally, the IRS Is a Useful Villain
• Washington Post: Grassley: IRS About to Pay $70 Million in Bonuses
• Washington Post: IRS Draws New Criticism Over $70M in Employee Bonuses, Says It's Bound by Union Contract
• Washington Times: Thousands Rally as Tea Party Groups Stage Major IRS Protest Outside Capitol

It ain't just me but there's a few others out there that want to resolve the 'issues' and to do that, we can't continually brush them under the rug...

The IRS Scandal, Day 43

• American Enterprise Institute: Did the IRS’s Tea Party Suppression Get Obama Reelected?, by James Pethokoukis
• American Spectator: The IRS Scandal Isn’t Resolved, Despite Cummings’ Transcript Release
• American Spectator: Speech Laws and the IRS
• Bloomberg: IRS Inquiry Focus Turns Away From Origins Toward Delays
• Bloomberg: Todd Grams, the IRS's New Mr. Cleanup
• Neil H. Buchanan (George Washington), The IRS Non-Scandal Scandal Collapses on Itself (Dorf on Law)
• Neil H. Buchanan (George Washington), What Should We Think Now About the IRS? (Verdict)
• Daily Beast: A Simple Fix to the IRS?
• Fox News: IRS Scandal Makes the Case Against Big Government and the Intrusive Obama 'Regime,' Revitalizes Tea Party
• Fox News: Union-Tied Group Slips IRS Scrutiny
• Mother Jones: Conspiracy Theory Update: The IRS Stole the Election From Mitt Romney, by Kevin Drum
• National Review: McConnell on White House Culture of Intimidation and the IRS: ‘I Told You So’
• Politico: Five Takeaways From the IRS Scandal
• Slate: The IRS Scandal Is Ultron
• U.S. News & World Report: Conservatives on IRS Threats: 'Be Very Afraid'
• USA Today: 1959 IRS Rule Is At the Center of Tea Party Scandal
• Wall Street Journal op-ed: Case Closed? Far From It. The FBI Seems Blasé About the IRS Investigation, So It's Crucial Congress Make It a Priority, by Peggy Noonan
• Wall Street Journal: IRS to Get Chance to Sell Turnaround Story
• Washington Post: Amid IRS Investigation of Groups, Conservatives Conference Highlights Murky Tax Laws
• Washington Post: Using the IRS ‘Scandal’ to (Try to) Kill Obamacare

And you gotta wonder why the : IRS Commissioner Shulman’s Top PoliticalAide Visited White House Over 300 Times.

Don't suppose it was a coordinated attack on Conservatives do you?

...of course it was.

The IRS Scandal, Day 44

• American Spectator: Another IRS Outrage
• American Spectator: Exit the IRS Stage Left
• Cincinnati Enquirer: IRS Less Prone to Pry If Lawyers Were on Case
• CNN: IRS Chief to Submit 30-Day Report on Agency Next Week
• Daily Caller: Proposed Bill Would Fire Federal Employees Who Invoke the Fifth
• The Hill: GOP Lawmaker Proposes Lerner Rule
• Huffington Post: It's Not Just the IRS: States Target Taxpayers Too!
• Investor's Business Daily: The President's League of Liars Is Disabling Democracy
• MSNBC: GOP Rep Proposes Bill to Fire Federal Employees Who Refuse to Testify
• New York Magazine: Mitch McConnell Realizes IRS Scandal Is Over
• News Busters: Networks Ignore 'Audit the IRS' Rally; Minimize Coverage of $70 Million in IRS Bonuses
• NPR: Did IRS Targeting Harm Tea Party Groups?
• Tax Analysts Blog: Another Bad Day for the IRS, by Christopher Bergin
• Town Hall: Post-Transcript, Even More Questions for the IRS
• Wall Street Journal: McConnell Sees Campaign to Intimidate Conservatives
• Wall Street Journal: Where Was the Tea Party?, by Peggy Noonan
• Washington Examiner: Top Shulman aide Frequent White House Visitor
• Washington Examiner: IRS Scandal Puts Dave Camp at Center Stage
• Washington Post: McConnell: Obama Probably Didn’t Order IRS Targeting, but Still Bears Responsibility
• Washington Post: The Obama IRS Scandal Retreats to the Fever Swamps
• Washington Times: Fast and Furious, IRS Show Obama Officials Above the Law?
• Weekly Standard: McConnell: IRS 'Thumbing Its Nose at the American People'

The American Spectator articles are particularly interesting.

The IRS Scandal, Day 45

• Fall River Herald News editorial: IRS Scandal Was the Ultimate Betrayal
• Fox News: IRS Sparked 'Second Coming' of Tea Party
• Fox News: Proposed Bill Would Fire Federal Employees Who Refuse to Testify
• The Hill: Price: 'Nobody Trusts the IRS' to Enforce Obama's Signature Healthcare Law
• New Orleans Public Radio: 4 Facts You Might Not Have Known About The IRS Scandal
• USA Today: IRS Less Prone to Pry If Lawyers Were on Case
• Washington Examiner: Immigration Reform Is Pointless Without Tax Reform
• Washington Examiner: Top Shulman Aide Frequent White House Visitor

Slow news day. The weekend we suppose...