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List Of IRS Political Targets
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Amazingly, this makes the IRS’ claims this was “not driven by partisan motives” look even more absurd.

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– “Tea Party”

– “Patriots”

– “9/12″

– “We the People”

– “Take Back the Country”

– “Political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the constitution and bill of rights, social economic reform/movement”

– “Issues include Government spending, Government debt, or taxes”

– Education via advocacy/lobbying to “make America a better place to live.”

– “Criticiz(ing) how the country is being run.”

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Obama’s Faux Outrage Over IRS Scandal, Calls It “Outrageous”
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So we’re supposed to believe the ultra-thin skinned Chicago Democrat Barack Obama is outraged his opponents were singled out by the IRS? Sorry, not buying it.

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President Barack Obama on Monday called the Internal Revenue Service’s admission that Ohio branch employees singled out conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election “outrageous,” promising to hold officials accountable should an independent review find misconduct.

“If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on, and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that’s outrageous,” Obama said during a joint press conference with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron. “And there’s no place for it. And they have to be held fully accountable. Because the IRS as an independent agency, requires absolute integrity and people have to have confidence that they’re applying it in a nonpartisan way. Applying the laws in a nonpartisan way. And you should feel that way regardless of party. I don’t care whether you’re a Democrat, Independent or a Republican.”

He added: “The [Inspector General's office] is conducting its investigation and I am not going to comment on their specific findings prematurely. But I can tell you that if you’ve got the IRS operating in anything less than a neutral and nonpartisan way, then that is outrageous to our traditions and people have to be held accountable and it needs to be fixed.”

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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FLASHBACK: Romney Donor Vilified By Obama Campaign, Promptly Hit With IRS Audit
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No coincidence.

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Just months after being slimed by President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, Mitt Romney supporter and businessman Frank VanderSloot was informed that he was going to be audited not only by the Internal Revenue Service, but by the Labor Department as well.

VanderSloot’s saga was told by columnist Kimberley Strassel in the Wall Street Journal last July.

In April 2012, VanderSloot, who served as the national co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential finance committee, was one of eight Romney backers to be defamed as ”wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records” in a post on the Obama campaign’s website. The post, entitled “Behind the curtain: a brief history of Romney’s donors,” singled out VanderSloot for being a ”litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”

Two months later, the IRS informed VanderSloot he and his wife were going to be audited, Strassel reported. Two weeks after that, VanderSloot was notified by the Labor Department that it was going to “audit workers he employs on his Idaho-based cattle ranch under the federal visa program for temporary agriculture workers,” reported Strassel.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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White House Dismisses IRS Targeting Conservatives As Only “A Small Number Of IRS Employees,” Says Obama “Concerned”
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WRONG! This went all the way to the top of the agency who knew for at least two years this was going on and denied it was happening to Congress.

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White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement Monday that President Barack Obama is “concerned” that a “small number of Internal Revenue Service employees may have” inappropriately singled out conservative groups for further review during the 2012 election and that he expects “appropriate steps” will be taken should an independent review find that rules were broken. [...]

“Based on recent media reports, he is concerned that the conduct of a small number of Internal Revenue Service employees may have fallen short of that standard. We understand that the matter is currently under review by the Inspector General. If the Inspector General finds that there were any rules broken or that conduct of government officials did not meet the standards required of them, the President expects that swift and appropriate steps will be taken to address any misconduct.”

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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"Obama uses IRS to target political opponents."

It's really a shame deranged conservatives have absolutely no proof of that. So why does Stupid lie?

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WRONG! This went all the way to the top of the agency who knew for at least two years this was going on and denied it was happening to Congress.

Oh you mean IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman, a republican who was appointed by President George W. Bush, right, Stupid?
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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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New GOP Bill Would Jail IRS Agents Who Single Out Groups Based On Their Ideology
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Rather see a bill abolishing the IRS.
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In the wake of an admission by an IRS official that conservative groups had been targeted for additional scrutiny, Rep. Michael Turner will introduce legislation Monday that would increase the penalty for singling out ideological organizations —including the possibility of jail time.

Turner, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said news about the IRS is an example of abuse of government power.

“Across the country, people are appalled to learn the IRS targeted people because of their political beliefs,” the Ohio Republican told POLITICO. “These are issues of basic rights of expression.”

He added, “This is an issue of whether or not authority has been abused in the government. They were doing this for all the wrong reasons.”

Turner’s bill would expressly prohibit an IRS employee from discriminating against a group or individual based on protected statuses. It also expressly states that political speech and expression are protected statuses and protect all political speech from being targeted by the IRS — not just that of conservative groups.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Even MSNBC Is Outraged Over IRS Targeting Conservatives: “This Is Outrageous, No Matter What Political Party You Are”
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It’s that bad.

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It’s little surprise to see Republicans bashing the Obama administration over reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups during the 2012 election season.

But even the president’s most vocal supporters — the talking heads of liberal cable news channel MSNBC — are unloading on the White House and the Democratic Party as a whole.

“Look at the reaction of the entire Democratic Party. Of course the Republican Party is jumping on this … beating up the IRS is always good politics. But why aren’t more Democrats jumping on this?” asked MSNBC host and White House correspondent Chuck Todd. “This is outrageous, no matter what political party you are.”

Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw also skewered the administration’s response to the scandal, which broke Friday afternoon.

“There’s only spin for the president to make, which is to come out and say that ‘this is outrageous. I have asked the people responsible for this to be removed from their jobs.’” Mr. Brokaw said on “Morning Joe” on Monday morning.

Mr. Obama has yet to directly address the matter, though he’s expected to do so Monday.

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White House Was Told About IRS Targeting Conservatives In April, Claim Obama Heard About It Through News Reports
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Obama not knowing about it until the news broke on Friday reeks of major BS.

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The White House counsel’s office was informed in April of an inspector general’s review of the Internal Revenue Service, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday.

Carney told reporters that the counsel’s office was told of the examination into the targeting of conservative groups during the week of April 22, but not given details about the review’s findings. President Obama, Carney said, was not told about the review and learned of it only after news reports emerged Friday, just what Obama said earlier Monday.

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IRS Boss Of Division Targeting Anti-Obama Groups Investigated Anti-Clinton Organizations In 1990s
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Honest to God...It's like a Sewer Pipe with a revolving door on it.
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Steven T. Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who managed the division that has admitted targeting anti-Obama Tea Party groups, was one of several agents who investigated anti-Clinton organizations including Judicial Watch during that Democrat’s administration, according to court documents and interviews.

Miller, who headed the IRS Services and Enforcement Division from 2009 until the end of last year, is named in court documents as part of a trio of Internal Revenue Service officials who allegedly characterized the 1998-2001 investigation of Judicial Watch as politically motivated.

According to court papers, one agent in the case reportedly told the legal watchdog group, “What do you expect when you sue the president?” Miller reportedly added that the Judicial Watch audit, coming after the group sent the White House a lengthy Freedom of Information Act request, “had created at least the appearance of a problem.”

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IRS Officials In Washington Were Involved In The Targeting Of Conservative Groups
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Time for the GOP to go on the warpath.

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Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea party-affiliated groups.

IRS employees in Cincinnati also told conservatives seeking the status of “social welfare” groups that a task force in Washington was overseeing their applications, according to interviews with the activists.

Lois G. Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt groups for the IRS, told reporters on Friday the “absolutely inappropriate” actions were undertaken by “front-line people” working in Cincinnati to target groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their names.

In one instance, however, Ron Bell, an IRS employee, informed an attorney representing a conservative group focused on voter fraud that the application was under review in Washington. On several other occasions, IRS officials in D.C. and California sent detailed questionaires to conservative groups asking more than a dozen questions about their voter outreach and other activities, according to the documents.

“For the IRS to say it was some low-level group in Cincinnati is simply false,” said Cleta Mitchell, a partner in the law firmFoley & Lardner LLP who sought to communicate with IRS headquarters about the delay in granting tax-exempt status to True the Vote.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Time for the GOP to go on the warpath.

You idiots have been on a warpath since January 20, 2009.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Honest to God...It's like a Sewer Pipe with a revolving door on it.


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Rubio: Fire that nonexistent IRS commissioner!

Based on news that the IRS investigated Republican-friendly 401(k) -- I mean 501(C)4 -- groups, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) is demanding that the IRS commissioner be fired.

Small problem: There is no commissioner.

The old commish, George H. W. Bush appointee Douglas Shulman, resigned in November. Obama hasn't nominated a permanent replacement, probably because the presidential election intervened and also probably because the GOP hasn't been bothering lately to approve most of his nominees anyway.

The acting commissioner, Steven T. Miller, is a long-time IRS employee. The departed Shulman was in charge of the IRS when the controversial investigations were conducted, so, as http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com points out, the commissioner in charge when it happened has already left the arena.

I suppose the Repubs could insist that Shulman be re-appointed just so they could fire him, but they probably wouldn't want to persecute a guy who was originally a Bush pick. Or they could just keep coming after Miller, as Rubio apparently intended (he said a letter demanding the firing of the "commissioner" should have included the word "acting," too).

What an act, indeed. Rubio and too many of his colleagues are merely acting like serious people.

It's true that, as the GOP has complained, Miller didn't inform Congress about the apparently botched investigation (which allegations, remember, are themselves still under investigation) after he first learned of it about a year ago. It's also true, as Miller has said, that congressional cuts in the IRS budget have hampered its ability to operate efficiently and by the rules -- just, in fact, like Republican budget cuts affected diplomatic security leading up to the Benghazi incident.

Hey, GOP, remember the Colin Powell "Pottery Barn" rule: You break it, you bought it.

If they can't calm down, maybe Republicans will just have to confirm a new commissioner, then fire him or her. Meanwhile, perhaps, they'll use this incident as an excuse to further cut IRS general staff. Sacrificial rites are so lovely in the spring, don't you think? Besides, you simply can't have the IRS actually struggling to do what Congress required of it, and in contradictory fashion. Learn about that conundrum by watching a short news segment from Monday's PBS Newshour, in which Duke University Law Professor Richard Schmalbeck lays out the problem:
http://www.pbs.org/...

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Four IRS Offices Targeted Conservative Groups
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Now that the regime’s excuse of this being isolated to only The IRS’ Cincinnati office is blown out of the water I wonder what they will go with?

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WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) – Internal Revenue Service Tea Party targeting went beyond an Ohio office, and the current and ex-IRS heads knew about the practice a year ago, records indicate.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters and at offices in El Monte, Calif., east of Los Angeles and Laguna Niguel in California’s southern Orange County sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other facets of their operations, documents obtained by The Washington Post indicate.

The IRS originally said the alleged anti-conservative usurpation was limited to its Cincinnati branch. The Cincinnati IRS employees told conservatives seeking the non-profit status of “social welfare” groups a Washington task force was overseeing their applications, activists from those groups told the Post.

Lois Lerner, head of the IRS tax-exempt-organizations division, told reporters Friday the “absolutely inappropriate” actions were done by “front-line people” working in Cincinnati to target groups with “Tea Party,” “patriot” or “9/12″ in their names.

Her office had no immediate comment to the Post report.

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IRS Commissioner Lied In Response To GOP Letter Asking If Tea Party Was Being Singled Out
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Over/under on IRS Commissioner Steve Miller losing his job: 24 hours.

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Republicans are training their attacks on acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller amid new revelations that he and the agency’s former top official knew employees were targeting conservative groups but failed to notify Congress despite repeated requests.

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, and 10 other GOP lawmakers wrote to then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman on June 18, 2012 demanding answers about why the agency requested donor information from groups seeking nonprofit status.

By the time this letter was sent, Shulman and Miller, who was the deputy IRS commissioner at the time, were aware of the extent of the targeting program for about a month.

Still, in a Sept. 11, 2012 response to the letter, Miller offered a broad interpretation of the law allowing the request for donor information and said nothing about the targeting practice.

Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS division the oversees tax exempt groups, acknowledged that groups seeking nonprofit status were flagged for additional review if their applications included phrases like “tea party” or “patriot.” She told reporters that requests for donor information isn’t standard practice at the IRS.

But Miller’s reply gave no hint that he did, in fact, have knowledge about what Hatch was seeking.

“The applicable regulations are authorized by Section 7805 of the Internal Revenue Code, which provides general authority to prescribe all needed regulations for the enforcement of tax rules,” he wrote.

His responses to the GOP letter — and others like it — along with his new job as the acting IRS commissioner put him squarely in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers.

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Reporter Reveals IRS Harassed Him After Tough Obama Interview
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Hmm, anyone else noticing a pattern here?

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St. Louis Reporter Larry Conners revealed via Facebook yesterday that he has been “hammered” by the IRS since his much-discussed interview with President Obama. Conners, a veteran reporter, asked tough, but fair question during the interview which was slammed by progressives in media. Conners says:

Shortly after I did my April 2012 interview with President Obama, my wife, friends and some viewers suggested that I might need to watch out for the IRS.

I don’t accept “conspiracy theories”, but I do know that almost immediately after the interview, the IRS started hammering me.

At the time, I dismissed the “co-incidence”, but now, I have concerns … after revelations about the IRS targeting various groups and their members.

Originally, the IRS apologized for red-flagging conservative groups and their members if they had “Tea Party” or “patriot” in their name.

Today, there are allegations that the IRS focused on various groups and/or individuals questioning or criticizing government spending, taxes, debt or how the government is run … any involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the constitution and bill of rights, or social economic reform/movement.

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