Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption apps

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 2:31 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... teers.html

IRS admits viewpoint-selective enforcement of tax exempt status -- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 71208.html

This is pretty bad.

First step - blame Bush. Second step, blame it on a lackey in Cincinnati, and claim that it was low level people with no political bias at all clumsily targeting only one political persuasion.

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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by pErvinalia » Tue May 14, 2013 2:44 pm

What's going on?
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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 14, 2013 2:51 pm

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 3:26 pm

rEvolutionist wrote:What's going on?
Our taxing authority, the IRS, has admitted to selecting conservative leaning groups -- specifically those with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, and also groups that purport to advocate educating people about the US Constitution, and singling them out for special scrutiny of their tax exemption filings. This is something the IRS has admitted doing, although they have offered excuses, like "it was someone in the IRS Cincinnati office who took it upon himself/herself to do this..." and "lower level IRS officials did this in a clumsy, but good faith attempt to enforce the law, but no political bias was actually involved..."

This is a big deal, and we will likely be hearing more of it. When guys like Piers Morgan are going on about it, as he was on his program last night, there just may be some legs involved. http://twitchy.com/2013/05/13/even-pier ... ansparent/

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/piers-morgan ... its-worst/
Piers Morgan Tears Into Obama’s ‘Crumbling’ Promises Of Transparency: America ‘At Its Worst’
This will be the death of Morgan's career, though. He was getting slammed by the right on the gun control stuff, and now he's taking up a position against the Obama Administration. The US left leaning wing will run him over. He'll be stuck in the middle of the road with tire tracks in both directions right over him.


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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 4:31 pm

(AP) IRS chief: Agency lacked sensitivity in screenings
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The acting commissioner of the IRS says the agency was guilty of a "lack of sensitivity" in screenings of political groups seeking tax-exempt status.

Steven Miller said in an opinion piece in Tuesday's USA Today that there was _ in his words _ "a shortcut taken in our processes" for determining which groups needed special screening. He said the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity to the implications of some of the decisions that were made."

Miller has emerged as a key figure in the controversy over the IRS' singling out of conservative political groups for extra scrutiny. President Barack Obama said Monday that if the agency intentionally targeted conservative groups, "that's outrageous and there's no place for it."
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA693HEO0

Correct response from Obama.

However, the acting IRS commissioner is talking nonsense. Lack of "sensitivity?" A "shortcut?" Uhh...yeah -- we have to screen organizations, so lets just focus on the ones that say they want to educate people on the Constitution, or have "patriot" in their name. LOL. What could go wrong? Who could blame them for that?

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Post by Warren Dew » Tue May 14, 2013 5:42 pm

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(AP) IRS chief: Agency lacked sensitivity in screenings
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The acting commissioner of the IRS says the agency was guilty of a "lack of sensitivity" in screenings of political groups seeking tax-exempt status.

Steven Miller said in an opinion piece in Tuesday's USA Today that there was _ in his words _ "a shortcut taken in our processes" for determining which groups needed special screening. He said the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity to the implications of some of the decisions that were made."

Miller has emerged as a key figure in the controversy over the IRS' singling out of conservative political groups for extra scrutiny. President Barack Obama said Monday that if the agency intentionally targeted conservative groups, "that's outrageous and there's no place for it."
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA693HEO0

Correct response from Obama.
And yet, it was almost certainly the White House that pressured them into it.

Honestly, if we'd had a weaker constitution, he would have just passed an enabling act and dismissed the Reichstag Congress by now.

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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Tyrannical » Tue May 14, 2013 5:50 pm

I've heard that this may be Obama's "Nixon moment".

Nixon's downfall was in the coverup of illegal activity. If Obama knew or now knows the smart thing to do would be for him to prosecute those IRS agents responsible.

Rand Paul looks like he has Presidential aspirations, and he already was not a fan of the IRS. This could go on for years if not settled soon.
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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Seth » Tue May 14, 2013 6:08 pm

Tyrannical wrote:I've heard that this may be Obama's "Nixon moment".

Nixon's downfall was in the coverup of illegal activity. If Obama knew or now knows the smart thing to do would be for him to prosecute those IRS agents responsible.

Rand Paul looks like he has Presidential aspirations, and he already was not a fan of the IRS. This could go on for years if not settled soon.
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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 7:41 pm

A liberal group, Propublica, has come out today and said that the Internal Revenue Service disclosed to them confidential information about some or many of the targeted conservative groups -- the purpose being, of course, so that the conservative groups could be targeted and smeared.

Propublica is a Progressive organization:
ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure”–“progressive” being the code word for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is http://www.soros.org. It is a network of more than 30 international foundations, mostly funded by Soros, who has contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... ive-Groups

It too is a tax exempt organization, despite being openly promoting of progressive rather than conservative views.

There is nothing wrong with them, of course, being tax exempt and promoting Progressive views. There is also nothing wrong with tax exempt tea party or conservative groups. That's the point. The conservative groups were specifically targeted by the IRS, the IRS collected data on the organizations, and that included in some cases DONOR LISTS and funding sources. Then the IRS also gave out confidential information that it gleaned to at least one outside entity -- a progressive entity -- Propublica.

And, we're expected to believe this was a lackey in Cincinnati who just went off half-cocked and did this with no direction and no partisan bias.

Be careful not to step in the bull shit, folks!

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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 8:01 pm

White House Spokesman Carney -- Just because the IRS apologized doesn't mean they did anything wrong.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/car ... 24451.html :bored:

This may well be the time when some great mass of middle America finally gets tired of being asked to buy this Administration's bullshit. The double-talk is getting downright sickening.

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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 8:04 pm

Jewish group accusing IRS of having a "special unit" to investigate pro-Israel Jewish groups: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/i ... 91298.html

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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Robert_S » Tue May 14, 2013 8:18 pm

It is a secret Democrat false flag operation aimed at destroying Hillary Clinton. Hillary is much loved by a good portion the party rank and file, but is too polarising to win a general election.

Either that or it's a Republican seeking to weaken the extremists so that next time around the party will nominate someone more palatable to the mainstream.

Or it could be both,
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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue May 14, 2013 8:48 pm

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013 ... 63936.html :funny:

This is hysterical.

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Re: Obama IRS selectively investigates opposition exemption

Post by Collector1337 » Tue May 14, 2013 8:59 pm

Great example of why anyone who trusts the government is a moron.
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