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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:30 pm 
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IRS Denied Tax-Exempt Status To Pro-Life Group On Behalf Of Planned Parenthood
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This thing gets more unbelievable by the hour.

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IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last election.

“In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent ‘Ms. Richards’ told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board’s signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” the Thomas More Society announced today. “Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved.”

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:32 pm 
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IRS Executive In Charge Of Unit That Targeted Conservatives Received Over $42K In Bonuses Since 2009
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By all accounts she did a splendid job targeting anti-Obama groups.

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Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the person at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, has been given $42,531 in bonuses since 2009.

That figure was included in data provided by the IRS in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Examiner. Lerner is director of the IRS exempt organizations division, which processes and approves or denies applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status.

Lerner received $17,220 for 2009, $24,691 for 2010 and $10,620 for 2011, the most recent year for which the I(RS said data was available.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Obama’s Chief Lawyer Told IRS Had Been Targeting Conservatives Weeks Ago
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Is anyone stupid enough to really believe Obama had no idea?

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The White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday.

That disclosure has prompted a debate over whether the president should have been notified at that time.

In the week of April 22, the Office of the White House Counsel and its head, Kathryn Ruemmler, were told by Treasury Department attorneys that an inspector general’s report was nearing completion, the White House official said. In that conversation, Ms. Ruemmler learned that “a small number of line IRS employees had improperly scrutinized certain…organizations by using words like ‘tea party’ and ‘patriot,’ ” the official said.

President Barack Obama said last week he learned about the controversy at the same time as the public, on May 10, when an IRS official revealed it to a conference of lawyers. The president’s statement drew criticism, focusing attention on his management style and whether he has kept himself sufficiently informed about the agencies under his authority.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Plurality Believe Obama Regime Involved In IRS Decision To Target Conservative Groups, 42%-31%
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But… but… but… Obama heard about it in the news, or something.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Majority Of Americans Think IRS Targeting Conservatives Was Intentional, Only 31% Believe It Was An “Administrative Mistake”
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Including a majority who say what the IRS did is illegal.

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A new poll finds that a majority of Americans believe the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal was an intentional effort to harass conservative political groups.

In a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Tuesday, 56 percent said the IRS use of higher scrutiny on Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status was a deliberate move, with 31 percent calling it an “administrative mistake.”

A strong majority, 74 percent, said the IRS moves were inappropriate to 20 percent who said they were appropriate. Fifty-one percent also said they believe those actions were illegal to 44 who said they were inappropriate but not against the law.

A plurality also believe the administration is not being forthcoming about the targeting scandal. Forty-five percent said the administration is trying to cover up facts, with 42 percent saying the White House has honestly disclosed what they know.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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IRS Went After 83-Year-Old Tea Party Member, Survived WWII Japanese Internment Camp In Malaysia
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Call her in to testify to Congress. Put a face on the people that were targeted.

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Internal Revenue Service officials not only wanted a wide variety of information from the Albuquerque Tea Party’s application for non-profit status, it also wanted to know what contacts it had with people from other political organizations too.

That included an 83-year-old great-grandmother who was once held in a World War II internment camp, New Mexico Watchdog has discovered.

“I’ve always paid my taxes and everything,” Marianne Chiffelle told New Mexico Watchdog. “What I do think is, it doesn’t surprise me…because of this government we have at the moment.”

According to a review of documents conducted by the online news organization Politico, (in a story headlined “The IRS wants YOU — to share everything”), the IRS asked the Albuquerque Tea Party about connections to other groups, including “Marianne Chiffelle’s Breakfasts.”

That prompted us to do some digging.

It took New Mexico Watchdog less than an hour to learn that “Marianne Chiffelle’s Breakfasts” is not some restaurant chain, but a reference to the volunteer work of Chiffelle, a retiree who helps organize informal 9 a.m. meetings for members of the Bernalillo County Republican Party.

The group meets on Fridays at a Golden Corral restaurant. “We’ve had these meetings for a long time,” Chiffelle said. “It’s not a business.”

Chiffelle is a naturalized American citizen who was born in what was then called the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. Her father was an executive for Shell Oil and when World War II broke out Chiffelle was sent to a Japanese internment camp where she spent four years, from age 12 to 16.

After the war, she moved to the Netherlands and in 1960 she and her late husband immigrated to the United States.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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IRS Chief Tells Senate Committee: “We Were Not Politically Motivated In Targeting Conservative Groups”
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So they rubber stamped liberal groups and made in nearly impossible for conservative groups to get non-profit status and that’s not politically motivated?

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At a hearing Tuesday, Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) went after Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller for failing to recognize or admit that it had targeted conservative groups back when Republicans sent them letters asking as much last year.

“That’s a lie by omission,” Hatch said. “There’s no question about that in my mind. It’s a lie by omission. … Why did you mislead me and my colleagues?”

“Mr. Hatch, I did not lie,” Miller responded.

“Frankly,” Miller said, “the concept of political motivation here — I did not agree with that in May. I do not agree with that now. We were not politically motivated in targeting conservative groups.”

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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Carney: White House And IRS Talked About How To Spin Scandal
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Conspiracy.

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Discussions between the White House and the Treasury Department on the investigation into the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups focused on the possibility of public remarks from agency officials, White House press secretary Jay Carney confirmed Tuesday.

There was “discussion about the possibility of a speech” by Lois Lerner, who oversaw the IRS’s work on tax-exempt groups, Carney said, and conservation about testimony by the acting commissioner of the agency and “what he would say” if asked about the issue.

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First Tea Party Lawsuit Against IRS Filed
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We can expect a flood of these to follow.

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A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday, the first lawsuit in the wake of revelations the agency singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, according to a report.

The NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, according to Reuters, arguing its constitutional rights were violated when the IRS targeted its application for nonprofit status. The lawsuit seeks class-action status, meaning it could become the major suit between conservative groups and the IRS.

“The IRS engaged in a tactic of suffocating NorCal Tea Party Patriots and other similarly situated groups with requests that were so searching and extensive that they would have presented a serious challenge even for sophisticated businesses,” the Colfax, Calif.-based group wrote in its complaint.

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IRS Chief Tells Senate: Conservatives Targeted To Be “More Efficient”
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Funny how the only time in history the federal government cared about efficiency is when conservatives are being targeted.

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Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told a Senate committee Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups was not partisan, but merely “foolish mistakes” made by employees trying to be “more efficient.”

“I do not believe that partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the practices described in the Treasury Inspector General’s report,” Miller said in his opening statement before the Senate Finance Committee. “I reviewed the Treasury Inspector General’s report and I believe its conclusions are consistent with that.”

“I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection,” he said.

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White House Blames Press For Obama’s Shifting Narrative On IRS Scandal
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At some point the lapdogs are gonna snap… right?

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President Obama’s spokesman, to the irritation of the White House press corps, accounted for the shifting narrative about the White House team’s knowledge of the IRS scandal by pointing the finger back at the media for failing to ask the right questions to get more information.

“I answered the questions that were asked of me,” Carney said during Tuesday’s press briefing when asked why he waited until Monday to reveal that White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough learned of the IRS scandal in April but decided not to tell the president.

“We have been extremely transparent in providing information,” he added. Carney explained that he revealed the McDonough information Monday because of errant reporting about the IRS scandal.

Otherwise, he maintained, “I gave you the information in response to the questions [asked] and we have provided an enormous amount of information.”

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 Post subject: Re: Obama uses IRS to target political opponents.
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IRS Official Says Agency Knew About Conservative Targeting One Year Before Inspector General Report
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All of these excuses that they just found out about it are just that, excuses.

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At a hearing Wednesday, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said his committee has hearned that IRS official Holly Paz was aware of the agency’s political targeting one year ago.

“Just yesterday the committee interviewed Holly Paz, the director of exempt organizations, rulings and agreements, division of the IRS,” Issa said in his opening statement. “While a tremendous amount of attention is centered about the inspector general’s report, or investigation, the committee has learned from Ms. Paz that she in fact participated in an IRS internal investigation that concluded in May of 2012, May 3rd of 2012, and found essentially the same thing that Mr. George found more than a year later.”

“Think about it,” he said. “For more than a year, the irs knew that it had inappropriately targeted groups of americans based on their political beliefs, and without mentioning it, and in fact without honestly answering questions that were the result of this internal investigation.”

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Issa Says Lerner Gave Up Her Fifth Amendment Rights When She Gave Opening Statement Professing Her Innocence, Will Haul Her Back To Testify Before Congress
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This will wipe that snarky little smug smirk off her mug. Now she'll have to answer four hours of questions with "I don't know".

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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel again.

The California Republican said Lerner’s Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination was voided when she gave an opening statement this morning denying any wrongdoing and professing pride in her government service.

“When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement,” Issa told POLITICO. “She chose not to do so — so she waived.”

Lerner’s decision to speak at all immediately triggered a dust-up among lawmakers who were confused about whether she gave up her Fifth Amendment protections when she made an opening statement.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), a former federal prosecutor, said Lerner lost her rights the minute she started proclaiming her innocence, and that lawmakers therefore were entitled to question her. But Ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland said hearing rules were not like those of a courtroom.

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