Thread: IRS Targets Conservatives

This faux scandal hass pretty much run it's course. It's about tax evasion not politics.

IRS conspiracies fall apart as BOLO list targeting ‘progressive’ groups revealed


IRS conspiracies fall apart as BOLO list targeting ‘progressive’ groups revealed | The Raw Story

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Anyone who doesn't consider the IRS targeting Conservative groups for extra scrutiny is an Obamabot to the core...

When you call them "Conservative groups" you are saying that they are political and not just social welfare organisations therefore they should not be eligible for tax-free status and the IRS was right to look at them.

You have just proved that this is not a scandal.

Caught in more lies.

IRS Says They Targeted Progressive & Occupy Groups With The Same Scrutiny as the Tea Party - just more lies.

Check it out:

The Obama IRS Scandal involves:

** Nearly 500 conservative groups targeted
** At least 5 pro-Israel groups targeted
** Constitutional groups targeted
** Groups that criticized Obama administration were targeted
** At least two pro-life groups targeted
** A Texas voting-rights group was targeted
** Conservative activists and businesses were targeted.
** At least 88 IRS agents were involved in the targeting scandal
** At least one conservative Hispanic group was targeted

We also know that although three liberal groups were asked follow-up questions when they applied for tax-exempt status – The IRS DID NOT Give Liberal Groups Same Scrutiny as Conservative Organizations.

But that didn’t stop the chief of the IRS Danny Werfel to tell reporters today that the IRS also targeted “progressive” and “occupy” groups.
These people are lying folks.

"The Internal Revenue Service’s screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday."

Documents show IRS also screened liberal groups

Whenever their lips move...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

We also know that although three liberal groups were asked follow-up questions when they applied for tax-exempt status – The IRS DID NOT Give Liberal Groups Same Scrutiny as Conservative Organizations.

Perhaps that's because the Liberal groups were about environmentalism or marijuana legalization and things like that? Since the teabaggers prime motivation is that they don't want to pay taxes it's pretty inevitable that the agency in charge of tax collection is going to have a look at them.

If you walked through an airport in a t-shirt with the slogan "I wanna blow up a plane" the TSA would probably want to have a little chat with you.

The IRS Scandal, Day 47

• IRS: IRS Charts a Path Forward with Immediate Actions
• IR-2013-62: Report Outlines Changes for IRS to Ensure Accountability, Chart a Path Forward; Immediate Actions, Next Steps Outlined
• Danny Werfel (IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner): Charting a Path Forward at the IRS: Initial Assessment and Plan of Action
• IRS: Exempt Organizations (EO) Recommended Actions
• FS-2013-7: Highlights from the IRS Report
• FS-2013-8: IRS Offers New Streamlined Option to Certain 501(c)(4) Groups Caught in Application Backlog
• House Ways & Means Committee Democrats: New IRS Information Shows “Progressives” Included on BOLO Screening List
• Sander Levin Memorandum: Preliminary IRS Investigation Update — TIGTA’s Failure to Disclose that “Progressives” Were Included on the IRS “ Be On the Look Out ” (BOLO ) Lists
• Accounting Today: IRS Outlines Steps to Fix Problems with Tax-Exempt Applications
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: More Evidence Refuting Democrats' 'Nothing to See Here' IRS Narrative
• The Atlantic: These Liberal Buzzwords 'Targeted' by IRS Debunk the Conservative Conspiracy
• Bloomberg: IRS Employees Used Terms Including ‘Progressive,’ ‘Israel’
• Bloomberg: IRS Look at Progressives Complicates Tale of Tea-Party Scrutiny
• Bloomberg: IRS Offers Faster Tax-Exemption Route to Delayed Groups
• Cartoon: IRS Drone
• Columbia Journalism Review: The IRS Scandal Unwinds
• Forbes: Should You Lawyer Up Against The IRS? You Bet
• The Hill: IRS: Targeting Went on Through May
• Huffington Post: IRS Targeted Progressive Groups, Too, Documents Reveal
• Journal of Accountancy: IRS Controversy Could Cause Tax-Exempt Processing Slowdown
• L.A. Times: IRS Workers Were Told to Flag 'Progressive' Groups, Memos Show
• National Review: A ‘Far Broader’ BOLO List? Some IRS Storytelling Deserves Additional Scrutiny in Washington.
• National Review: ‘Lookout List’ Not Much Broader Than Originally Thought, Contrary to Reports
• New York Daily News: Dems: Liberal Groups Were Also Scrutinized by the IRS
• New York Magazine: The Vast Anti-Conservative IRS Conspiracy Targeted Liberal Groups, Too
• New York Times: Documents Show Liberals in IRS Dragnet
• Politico: IRS: Post-Scandal Criteria Still Inappropriate’
• Politico: Sander Levin: IRS Tea Party Probe ‘Flawed in a Fundamental Way’
• Reason: IRS Apparently Singled Out Groups Not Represented by Attorneys
• Time: IRS Chief Finds Lingering Malpractice In Agency Review
• U.S. News & World Report: Top IRS Official Removed From Job, Not Fired, Likely Still Works at Agency
• USA Today: IRS: Other 'Inappropriate' Screening of Groups Done
• Wall Street Journal: IRS Halts Political Screening of Groups
• Washington Post: Grassley: IRS Paid $42k in Bonuses to Lois Lerner
• Washington Post: IRS to Make It Easier for Groups to Get Tax-Exempt Status, New Chief Says
• Washington Post: New IRS Chief: Improper Screening Was Broader, Lasted Longer Than Previously Revealed
• Washington Times: New IRS Chief Admits More Targeting Cases

These round ups don't seem to be getting any shorter. Don't suppose this Scandal is going away anytime soon...

Well, Boon.

We can say that Obama is....very Nixon-esque.

And we have 3 years and 4 months to go. Wish he did not get re-elected, but that is the way it goes.

The fat lady Has sung for Darrell Issa and I'm not talking about Adele. His phony IRS scandal has fallen apart just like all his other partisan witch hunts.

Darrell Issa’s credibility is over - Salon.com

Liberals have naturally never much cared for Darrell Issa, but after he seized on a Treasury Department inspector general report that appeared to show the agency had improperly singled out Tea Party tax-exempt groups for extra scrutiny, even we thought he might be on to something. Jon Stewart practically disowned the president. After a long string of failures, it looked like Issa had finally found something real, even if he was a bit overeager in hyping it.

How wrong we were. Now it’s clear Issa played us this whole time, thanks to new documents that show the IRS also targeted “progressive” and “Occupy” groups, in addition to Tea Party ones. And if it targeted groups on both sides, it wasn’t really singling anyone out (the only group actually denied tax-exempt status was a progressive one, after all) and the whole scandal falls apart.

It’s not that there were no warning signs. In his zeal to implicate the White House, Issa jumped to conclusions unsupported by evidence. Then he selectively disclosed parts of transcripts that supported his narrative, and threw a fit when Democrats wanted to release the rest, which revealed that the IRS official in charge of the program was a conservative Republican. The whole scandal seemed to be falling apart, and now we know for sure.

Did Issa know the IRS targeted progressive groups too? Why didn’t the inspector general’s report mention this critical bit of data? Russell George, Treasury’s IG, told lawmakers that the “inspector general launches audits on topics requested by lawmakers. The targeting audit requested by House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa specifically requested a review of IRS actions related to conservative groups,” Politico reported yesterday.

So it seems this entire scandal exists because Issa skewed the outcome of the IG report by asking to keep it narrowly focused on conservative groups, then trumped up its findings’ charges and tried to keep exculpatory evidence out of the public eye. If this were court, the case would not only be thrown out, but Issa would be scolded for prosecutorial misconduct.

Of course, we probably should have seen this coming from Issa, who has been at best an unimpressive House GOP scandal czar, and at worst, an effective conspiracy theory huckster bolstered by the weight of his lofty office. Even some fellow Republicans have spoken up. “I really am concerned that it could tip this into the political realm rather than a true detailed investigation to get the facts out,” Rep. Charles Boustany, a senior Ways and Means Republican who chairs the panel’s Oversight subcommittee, said of Issa’s propensity to blab about any new details he finds while investigating.

Or take this Republican on Issa’s committee: “Our committee, unfortunately does have a reputation for jumping to the end result.” That Republican, it turns out, was Issa himself, explaining in 2011 why he was backing off on the Fast and Furious scandal.

That habit, along with his colorful personal history of car thefts and accusations of insurance scams, got Issa in trouble even before he took the helm of the Oversight committee. In 2010 he called Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.” He later apologized, telling CNN, “Do I think the president is personally corrupt? No. I should never have implied that.”

Four days after the 2010 election, Issa declared he would hold seven hearings a week on everything from WikiLeaks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to the FDA, to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. None of those went anywhere and the hearings have slowed to a trickle. And some of his investigations have been downright ridiculous, like when he asked the Department of Justice to investigate ACORN more than a year after it ceased to exist, or when he said Joe Sestak’s Senate campaign was “Obama’s Watergate.” Do you even remember Sestak’s name, let alone the “scandal”?

Issa’s biggest successes — and also failures — have been when dramatically overplaying his hand. Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Benghazi and now the IRS all followed the same format. In every case, instead of conducting a sober investigation, Issa picked a conclusion (the White House was involved!) and then desperately tried to find evidence to support it. In all cases, he came up way short.

But while other scandals fizzled out after months, the IRS controversy’s collapse has been more dramatic. Just a month ago, it was dominating news coverage. Last week, it was reviving the zombie Tea Party. Now, it’s a flaming ruin. At some point, this has to weigh on Issa’s credibility. James O’Keefe may have more scalps than Issa, who has so far failed to land any body blows on the Obama administration, but both have been caught in one distortion and exaggeration after another. There was no singling out of Tea Party groups and it’s hard to imagine Issa didn’t know this earlier.

As Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan has said, it takes two to scandal. Issa can’t do it alone. He needs credulous media coverage to make his work ginning up controversy successful. The media has spent almost two months on a story that has proved to be essentially a fiction. How many important stories didn’t get covered because we were debating something that never happened? How many times does Issa have to cry wolf before the mainstream media will realize he has no credibility left

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Yes, well, that's far-left Salon, isn't it?

Want me to pull up a quote or two from WND or say Michael Savage or maybe even Rush?

Anyhow, these IRS Scandals just seem to be multiplying:

"Americans were so distracted by that other IRS scandal that they almost missed out on this one: an inspector general’s report released June 20 found that IRS employees used credit cards to make some dubious purchases. While the expert accountants at the IRS have a catch-all category called “team-building supplies” that apparently covers just about anything, charging wine, romance novels and online pornography really seems to abuse the concept."

Team-building supplies? IRS credit cards used to purchase wine, porn | Twitchy

^Hey, let's clean up all the abuses by Federal employees. No one is opposed to that. But Issa claimed the IRS targeting originated in the White House and POTUS was culpable. It's always a case of smear first with the rethugs then backtrack and try to claim that their real objective was reform.

Originally Posted by Humbert

^Hey, let's clean up all the abuses by Federal employees. No one is opposed to that. But Issa claimed the IRS targeting originated in the White House and POTUS was culpable. It's always a case of smear first with the rethugs then backtrack and try to claim that their real objective was reform.

Short memory loss again, Humbert?

Who essentially gave the IRS their marching orders?

That's right. 'He' stated at the outset he could use the IRS against his enemies...as a joke don't you know...

^Surprising Issa didn't bring that into evidence. His stupidity really is boundless.

Originally Posted by Humbert

^Surprising Issa didn't bring that into evidence. His stupidity really is boundless.

Unfortunately, the 'stupidity' factor runs rampant with the likes of Weepy Boehner, John Rino McCain etc at the helm...

^that's the third post of yours I liked today.

The IRS Scandal, Day 48

• ABC News: IRS Says It Screened Groups Based on ‘Questionable Criteria’ Until June
• American Prospect: IRS Scandal Ends With a Whimper
• American Thinker: Werfel's Chaff Obscures Tea Party Targeting
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Another Democratic IRS 'Revelation' Where Facts Don't Match the Hype
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: GOP's Much-Beloved IRS Scandal Descends Into Farce
• The Atlantic: The New Front in the IRS Scandal: The Inspector General's Office
• The Blaze: Did the IRS Sway the Election for Obama?
• Daily Caller: Tea Party IRS Witness Calls for Other Whistleblowers to Step Forward
• Daily Caller: Twelve Different IRS Units Nationwide Targeted Conservatives
• Esquire: The IRS Scandal Evaporates Again
• Fiscal Times: Progressive Groups Were in IRS Sightlines, Too
• Forbes: The Timeline of IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups
• The Hill: IG: Audit of IRS Actions Limited to Tea Party Groups at GOP Request
• Human Events: Did the IRS Target Progressive Groups, Too?
• Jay Leno: "IRS Has Ruled Obama Can Write Off First Half of His Second Term as a Total Loss"
• Maddow Blog: Stick a Fork in the IRS Controversy; It's Done
• Mediaite: Scarborough Spars With Sam Stein Over IRS Targeting ‘Progressive’ Groups: Doesn’t Take ‘Legs Off’ Scandal
• Mother Jones: Poof! The IRS Scandal Evaporates
• MSNBC: IRS Targeted Groups on Left As Well As Right
• National Journal: Why the IRS Scandal Needs a Special Prosecutor
• News Busters: NBC's Todd Claims 'Republicans Overplaying Their Hand' on IRS 'Quote/Unquote Scandal'
• New York Times: Revisiting the IRS ‘Scandal’
• PJ Media: Did IRS Chief Danny Werfel Intentionally Mislead on the BOLO Lists?
• Politico: Big Spending at IRS Back in the Spotlight
• Politico: IRS Watchdog J. Russell George Finds Himself Under Scrutiny
• USA Today: House Panel to Vote on Recall for IRS' Lerner
• U.S. News & World Report: The IRS-Tea Party Scandal Fizzles
• Volokh Conspiracy: IRS Scandal Still a Scandal (But Still Not “Watergate”), by Jonathan Adler (Case Western)
• Wall Street Journal: In IRS Scandal, Spat Over Level of Scrutiny: Democrats Release Documents Showing Liberal Groups Also Were Flagged, but Republicans Question if Treatment Was Equal
• Washington Free Beacon: An Eye on Pro-Israel Groups; IRS Flagged Terms Related to Israeli Settlements for Special Scrutiny
• Washington Post: House Panel to Vote on Whether IRS Worker's Right Not to Testify
• Washington Post: IRS Scandal Puts Investigators Under Investigation
• Washington Post: Was the IRS Report 'Flawed in a Fundamental Way'?
• Washington Times: ACLJ Suit Against IRS Grows to 41 Groups

Darrell Issa might not be the sharpest pencil in the drawer but that doesn't mean that these IRS Scandals are going away anytime soon. In fact, they seem to be building steam.


We see now that a Second IRS Employee Pleads The Fifth At Oversight Hearing.

Here's a copy of that IRS letter confirming that conservative, not liberal, groups were targeted.

Also, a reminder Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies in 2009.

The IRS Scandal, Day 49

• Accounting Today: IRS Deputy Won’t Testify Before Congress on Awards to Friend
• Atlanta Journal Constitution: You Want to Know the Truth About the IRS Scandal?
• CBS News: Duckworth Shames IRS Contractor for Questionable Disability Status
• CNN: Acting IRS Chief to Face Grilling Thursday
• CNN: Taxpayer Advocate: IRS Needs More Money. Seriously.
• Daily Caller: Don’t Politicize the IRS, End It
• Fiscal Times: Incompetence and Abuse Call for a Clean Sweep of the IRS
• Fiscal Times: Scandal-Ridden IRS Puts Wine, Porn on Taxpayers’ Tab
• The Hill: House Republicans Deny Asking Treasury IG to Limit IRS Audit
• The Hill: Taxpayer Advocate: Groups Seeking Tax-Exempt Status Don't Have Enough Rights
• The Hill: Ways and Means Republican Has 'Real Problem' With IRS Chief
• National Review: A Far Broader 'BOLA List'? Some IRS Storytelling Deserves Additional Scrutiny in Washington
• National Review: As IRS Chief Heads to Capitol Hill, GOP Rep. Introduces ‘Taxpayer Bill of Rights’
• Politico: Panel Poised to Haul IRS's Lois Lerner Back to Congress
• Politico: Spending at IRS Back in the Spotlight
• Power Line: The IRS Scandal Rolls On
• Power Line: Understanding the IRS Scandal
• Tax Analysts Blog: So the IRS Hounded Liberals Too – But We’ve Still Got a Problem, by Joseph J. Thorndike
• USA Today: IRS Taxpayer Advocate Suggests 'Apology Payments'
• Wall Street Journal: Taxpayer Advocate Cites Difficulty With IRS Division
• Washington Examiner: Another IRS Official Invokes the Fifth Amendment
• Washington Examiner: As IRS Scandal Grows, Democrats and Media Rush in to Change the Subject
• Washington Post: Darrell Issa Backtracks on IRS Scandal
• Washington Post: Hearing Will Examine IRS's Internal Review of Screening Practices
• Washington Post: IRS Chief to Capitol for First Testimony Since Documents Showed Screening for Progressives
• Washington Post: IRS Official Declines to Testify During House Hearing on Government Contracts
• Washington Post: IRS Taxpayer Advocate Suggests 'Apology Payments' for Targeted Groups
• Washington Post: Progressive Groups Also Faced Long Delays in Getting IRS to Approve Tax-Exempt Status
• Washington Post: Taxpayer Advocate Says IRS Crisis Is Financial One

These IRS Scandals are not closed no matter how much libs want to slam 'em shut...

Another excuse bites the dust.

Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups.

Can't the mods have a talk with the moonbat? Copy & paste endless lists of shit from obscure blogs, five, ten posts back to back sucks.

Originally Posted by Rainfall

Can't the mods have a talk with the moonbat?

See that little badge under his repo that says "Donor!"? You have your answer.

Originally Posted by Rainfall

Can't the mods have a talk with the moonbat? Copy & paste endless lists of shit from obscure blogs, five, ten posts back to back sucks.

Heh...attempts to stifle the truth have always been one of the Hallmarks of the far-left liberal.

Washington Post, The Hill etc are 'obscure blogs'?

Oh, btw, you are aware that there have been at last count 292 Tea Party groups targeted and just 6, count 'em 6 Progressive groups focused on?

And, when only six organizations were looked at, they may be be being targeted, but they're being targeted for the easy treatment, not the rough treatment.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Rainfall

Can't the mods have a talk with the moonbat?

See that little badge under his repo that says "Donor!"? You have your answer.

Good point. I reckon he's being paid as well, nobody can frenetically spread lies like this just for fun.

Originally Posted by Rainfall

I reckon he's being paid as well

If he's getting paid it must be by the Democratic party because he does absolutely nothing to further the GOP or Conservatism.

He does, however, do an excellent job of reminding everybody how out of touch, delusional, hate-filled, desperate and ignorant the GOP base has become.

The IRS Scandal, Day 50

• American Thinker: Treasury Audit: IRS Targeted 292 Tea Party Groups; 6 Progressive Groups
• The Atlantic: The IRS Scandal Will Never, Ever Die
• Daily Caller: Democrats Say IRS Targeting Report Is Unfair
• The Hill: The IRS’s Latest Misstep on the 501(c)(4) Front
• Huffington Post: IRS Scandal Becomes Republican Party's Zombie
• Huffington Post: J. Russell George: No Sign Progressives Were Mistreated by IRS
• Human Events: So Much for the “IRS Hassled Progressives Too” Excuse
• Human Events: Top Ten Most Ridiculous Items Purchased with IRS Credit Cards
• MSNBC: IRS Chief Challenged by Ways and Means Committee
• National Review: GOP Congressman to IRS Chief: ‘This is Junk!’
• National Review: IG: ‘Progressive’ Groups Not Targeted by IRS
• National Review: IRS Hearing: Dem Blames GOP for ‘Culture of Intimidation’
• National Review: Krauthammer’s Take: IRS Tactics Are ‘Stonewalling 101’
• New York Post: The ‘Progressive’ IRS
• Politico: Daniel Werfel Slammed for ‘Incomplete’ Report
• Politico: IRS Debate Shifts Again
• Politico: IRS Throws a Monkey Wrench Into Tax Reform Plans
• Reason: Under Questioning, Werfel Concedes Liberal Groups Received Less IRS Scrutiny Than Conservative Groups
• Tax Analysts Blog: Get to the Bottom of It, by Christopher Bergin
• Tax Analysts Blog: Revelations Show Lois Lerner Blew It, by David Cay Johnston (Syracuse)
• Town Hall: IRS Inspector General: Liberal Groups Weren't Inappropriately Targeted
• Town Hall: The Only Real Question for the IRS: Where Are the Lefty Victims?
• USA Today: IRS: Liberal Groups Got Less Scrutiny Than Tea Party
• Wall Street Journal op-ed: What's in a Name?, by Angela Hunt
• Wall Street Journal op-ed: Cover the IRS, Don't Cover For It: Apologists in the Media and Elsewhere Falsely Claim the Scandal Was Just a Bungle, by Peggy Noonan
• Wall Street Journal: IRS Inspector Firm on One-Sided Targeting: Small Number Faced Extra Scrutiny, While All Tea-Party Applications Were Reviewed
• Washington Examiner: Treasury: IRS Targeted 292 Tea Party Groups, Just 6 Progressive Groups
• Washington Post: Dems Have More Questions for IRS Audit Author Russell George
• Washington Post: House Panel Voting on Pressing IRS Figure Who Refused to Testify to Return for More Questions
• Washington Post: Treasury Investigator Says IRS Screened Only a Few Progressive Groups for Political Activity
• Washington Post: Watchdog Defends IRS Report in Letter
• Washington Times editorial: A Ship of Fools: The Out-of-Control IRS Needs an Out-of-Town Audit
• Washington Times: Audit Confirms IRS Targeted 292 Conservative Groups – Just 6 Liberal Groups
• Washington Times: IRS Auditor Reaffirms That Conservatives, Not Liberals, Were Targeted
• Washington Times: Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Double Amputee, Slams IRS Worker on Disability
• Weekly Standard: Dem Congressman Calls for Continued IRS Use of 'BOLO Lists'
• Weekly Standard: IRS's National Taxpayer Advocate: Exempt Organizations Division May Have Violated the Law

For being a 'non-scandal', the IRS sure is in the news a lot lately...

Originally Posted by Rainfall

Can't the mods have a talk with the moonbat?

click the red and white triangle next to the reputation scale.