IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groupsit's easier to ask for forgiveness than beg for permission....
Organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications...
Just read it and was going to post it.
I bet the orders came from the big zero himself but they will blame the janitor.
If Democrats were smart, they would run this corrupt administration out on a rail before it kills their party.
They aren't smart.
Between this, Benghazi, and the latest news on Seal Team 6*, Obama is going to be busy at damage control.
*For those unaware, several parents from Seal Team 6 held a press conference yesterday to call out the administration on the deaths of their sons. I watched it and it was heartbreaking.
It's Bush's fault (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/carney-irs-run-bush-political-appointee_722149.html#)Because the Bush administration wanted to hurt their supporters. Riiiiiiight...
So they apologized. OK. Was anyone fired over this? No? Then its not an apology.
Yeah, after Watergate you could not find anyone who admitted to being a republican. OTH, the media was full-on bashing republicans in general at that time.
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If Democrats were smart, they would run this corrupt administration out on a rail before it kills their party.
They aren't smart.
Between this, Benghazi, and the latest news on Seal Team 6*, Obama is going to be busy at damage control.
*For those unaware, several parents from Seal Team 6 held a press conference yesterday to call out the administration on the deaths of their sons. I watched it and it was heartbreaking.
Is this the one where he allowed that Imam to curse them? Has anyone but us heard about it?
Cindie
Yes, the same one Cindie. Did you see where they talked about sending the whole team + others into that valley on a Chinook transport helicopter instead of on a spec ops helicopter they normally use? I cried watching those parents tell the story.Yes they should all burn in hell.
May Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and all the other people involved burn in hell for putting a target on their backs.
How do they square the fact that the whistleblower Hicks, the man in charge after Stevens was killed, is a Democrat?
How do they square the fact that the whistleblower Hicks, the man in charge after Stevens was killed, is a Democrat?
How do they square the fact that demoncrap organizations were not targeted?
Because there is nothing out of the ordinary or off the wall when it comes to demoncrap organizations. (According to the demoncraps.)
Did anyone watch Tim Carney at the WH presser today? First, he had a pre-meeting, termed 'deep understanding' or some crazy name for only certain press corp members. Then he had the regular press briefing. They were hitting him pretty hard on Benghazi and IRS, as well as wondering why he had an invitation only meeting for some. Seems like a bad idea to piss off reporters at this stage of the game, but perhaps he thought they would continue to give him a pass.
After about 10 minutes of that utter and complete travesty, I physically became ill and turned it off. There is only so much lying and obfuscation on the taxpayer's dime I can take before getting sick.
I heard earlier that reports now claim Jewish groups were targeted as well.
If Liberal Jews have any love for Israel, they better wake up. Secular Jews are a lost cause.
An IRS campaign to apply additional scrutiny to conservative groups went beyond targeting "Tea Party" and "patriot" groups to include those focused on government spending, the Constitution and several other broad areas.
The additional guidelines created by the agency were part of a timeline, obtained by Fox News, from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which is looking into the controversial IRS practice. IRS officials apologized Friday for the scrutiny, but new information suggests senior leaders were apprised of the effort as early as 2011 despite public denials from the top.
I thought the liberal Jews were secular.
On another forum a prominent member who is a Jew often said the "Religious" Jews were the only ones who supported Israel.
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I saw that "briefing" -- at least part of it, until I became sick to my stomach.
Carney The ****tard is without a doubt the most glib, smarmy, polarizing, and infuriating Presidential Mouth to ever have set foot on that podium. Even Gibbs, while being a rabid liar, was at least sincere. You could tell he actually believed the shit that spewed out of his mouth. Carney The ****tard not only DOESN'T believe the shit that spews out of his mouth but has the unmitigated gall to expect others to swallow that shit without blinking an eye.
After about 10 minutes of that utter and complete travesty, I physically became ill and turned it off. There is only so much lying and obfuscation on the taxpayer's dime I can take before getting sick.
I think we can safely say we now know how Harry Reid knew about Mitt Romney’s finances and whether he was paying his taxes or not. And how Stephanie Cutter knew he had off shore accounts in the Cayman Islands.
Not to mention how Austan Goolsbee was able to release private supposedly "not for the public" tax info on the Koch Brothers.
And why Frank VanderSloot, Co-Chair of Romney’s national campaign was audited by not only the IRS but the Labor Department as well.
Also just as an aside, if I were a 1st Sergeant and two of my platoon sergeants were involved in shady activity and I tried to claim “I don’t have any control over what they’re doingâ€â€¦like someone has been doing lately with people that work for him…I’d be fired on the spot.
More webs that connect (adding to Dori's info above):
Sorry to go all Glenn Beck blackboard on ya, but maybe someone will find this interesting.
Larry Connors, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted with President Obama -- a fact that he dismissed as coincidence until the recent reports about the IRS targeting conservative groups.
I think we can safely say we now know how Harry Reid knew about Mitt Romney’s finances and whether he was paying his taxes or not. And how Stephanie Cutter knew he had off shore accounts in the Cayman Islands.
Not to mention how Austan Goolsbee was able to release private supposedly "not for the public" tax info on the Koch Brothers.
And why Frank VanderSloot, Co-Chair of Romney’s national campaign was audited by not only the IRS but the Labor Department as well.
It can be quite disturbing to see how connected all of these Marxist/Communist groups are. And how much influence they have on policy and how this country is run.
What are the conservative networks? It sure seems like we are so far behind that we'll never be able to catch-up in time.
KMOV anchor: The IRS is targeting me
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/kmov-anchor-the-irs-is-targeting-me-163945.html
Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years.
According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than three years, in some cases, for approval.
Lerner also appears to have broken with the norms of tax-exemption approval by granting retroactive tax-exempt status to Malik Obama’s organization.
The Internal Revenue Service developed “inappropriate criteria†focused on conservative groups that stalled work on most of the organizations’ applications for nearly 13 months, according to a report issued by the Treasury Inspector General on Tuesday.
The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.
Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family’s international humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse, said that the IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a “review†of their activities for tax year 2010.
With the IRS admitting it gave extra scrutiny to conservative political organizations, Graham says he now believes that the review was part of an Obama administration effort of “targeting and attempting to intimidate us.â€
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/franklin-graham-irs-targeting-91362.html#ixzz2TJPp6UCI
FLASHBACK 2012: Democrat Senators Demand IRS Scrutinize Tea Party GroupsGateway Pundit (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/flashback-2012-dem-senators-demand-irs-audit-tea-party-groups/)
A group of seven Senate Democrats urged the Internal Revenue Service on Monday to impose a strict cap on the amount of political spending by tax-exempt, nonprofit groups.
The senators said the lack of clarity in the IRS rules has allowed political groups to improperly claim 501(c)4 status and may even be allowing donors to these groups to wrongly claim tax deductions for their contributions. The senators promised legislation if the IRS failed to act to fix these problems.
“We urge the IRS to take these steps immediately to prevent abuse of the tax code by political groups focused on federal election activities. But if the IRS is unable to issue administrative guidance in this area then we plan to introduce legislation to accomplish these important changes,†the senators wrote.
The letter was signed by Senators Charles E. Schumer, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken. It follows an earlier letter, sent to the IRS by the same of group of senators last month, that also urged the IRS to better enforce rules pertaining to 501(c)4 organizations.
Gateway Pundit (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/flashback-2012-dem-senators-demand-irs-audit-tea-party-groups/)
Low-level employees, my ass.
Democratic senator pressured IRS to investigate nonprofitsWashington Free Beacon (http://freebeacon.com/under-pressure-2/)
Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) repeatedly pressed the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of specific conservative nonprofit organizations in letters to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and director Lois Lerner in 2012.
Levin said he was concerned nonprofit organizations were abusing their tax-exempt status and engaging in partisan politics and requested information from the IRS on 12 organizations.
“Organizations are using Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(4) to gain tax exempt status while engaging in partisan political campaigns,†wrote Levin in one letter on July 27, 2012. “Making the problem worse is that the IRS knows there is a problem because of the public nature of the activity but has failed to address it.â€
Federal government demanded a list of everyone a Tennessee organization had ever trained, or planned to train
Linchpins of Liberty mentors high school and college students and teaches them conservative political philosophy, but is not tea-party-linked
'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' asked the group's founder
IRS Inspector General report listed seven questions the agency should never have asked, but this wasn't one of them
I wonder if there could be non-conservatives who were audited as well, like Rev. Kevin Johnson.
Obama critic disinvited from Morehouse graduation ceremonies
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,86744.0
An educational Jewish group was targeted because they were pro-Israel.
The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls.
It asked for printouts of Facebook posts.
And it asked what books people were reading.
A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.
The long-awaited Treasury Department inspector general report released Tuesday says the agency itself decided some of its questions to conservative groups were way over the line — especially the one about donors.
"David, it's a lot, especially when you begin with Benghazi, move on into the IRS, and now AP/FBI," said anchor Brian Williams.
What does he mean about the FBI?
Didn't they do the phone thing with the AP?
(CNN) -- Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller has said his agency has pinpointed two "rogue" employees in the agency's Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for "overly aggressive" handling of Tea Party requests for tax-exempt status over the past two years, a congressional source told CNN on Wednesday.http://www.wyff4.com/news/politics/URGENT-IRS-Rogue-Employees/-/9324082/20159778/-/xh0ed5/-/index.html?absolute=true
It turns out that it’s not just Tea Party groups, but Jewish organizations and even some groups that study and discuss the U.S. Constitution were targeted.
First, the scandal was hardly localized with rogue agents in Cincinnati. At the ACLJ alone, we’ve also dealt with offices in Washington, D.C., Laguna Niguel, California, and El Monte, California.
The IRS targeting of conservative groups is far broader than first reported, with nearly 500 organizations singled out for additional scrutiny, according to two lawmakers briefed by the agency.
IRS officials claimed on Friday that roughly 300 groups received additional scrutiny. Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the number has actually risen to 471. Further, they said it is "unclear" whether Tea Party and other conservative groups are being targeted to this day.
In the midst of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, individuals and groups, alike, are continuing to come forward with ever-startling allegations. On Wednesday, Dr. Anne Hendershott, a devout Catholic and a noted sociologist, professor and author, exclusively told TheBlaze that she believes she may have been one of the IRS’s targets.
According to Hendershott, the IRS audited her in 2010 and demanded to know who was paying her and “what their politics were.â€
It all started with a phone call she received at her home in May of that year — a call during which Hendershott was told she would be audited. A letter that followed on May 19, 2010 solidified the IRS’s request to meet her in person two months later in July. While IRS investigations are certainly not uncommon occurrences, the professor believes that the situation surrounding hers was more-than-curious.
Lois Lerner's name on IRS letter to conservative group (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/lerners-name-on-irs-letter-to-conservative-group-91373.html)
This is another head that needs to roll.
I wonder if they're snooping around this place.
Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’
In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group.
He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a research site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a "non-partisan investigative watchdog dedicated to promoting accountability in the media and government." Although the site has investigated Republicans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the site's organizers are unapologetically conservative.
"One thing we don't hide is: 'Yeah, we're conservative—free-market, free-enterprise, full-spectrum conservative,'" Ryun told Mother Jones magazine last year.
Eight months passed without word from the agency about the group's application, Ryun said. In February 2012, Ryun's attorney contacted the IRS to ask if it needed more information to secure its nonprofit status as a 501(c)3 organization. According to Ryun, the IRS told him that the application was being processed by the agency's office in Cincinnati, Ohio—the same one currently facing scrutiny for targeting conservative groups—and to check back in two months.
As directed, Ryun followed up with the IRS in April 2012, and was told that Media Trackers' application was still under review.
When September 2012 arrived with still no word from the IRS, Ryun determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone nonprofit status, and he tried a new approach: He applied for permanent nonprofit status for a separate group called Greenhouse Solutions, a pre-existing organization that was reaching the end of its determination period.
The IRS approved Greenhouse Solutions' request for permanent nonprofit status in three weeks.
Yahoo news (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/conservative-activist-green-name-gets-irs-stamp-approval-193457897.html)
The Internal Revenue Service scandal involving the apparently unjustified targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has also hit home with the Hispanic community.
George Rodriguez, former president of the San Antonio Tea Party, said that when the organization applied for non-profit status, leaders were intimidated by IRS workers with excessive paperwork and meddling questions.
“They asked us all sorts of things that were out of the norm,†Rodriguez, now head of the conservative South Texas Alliance, told Fox News Latino. “We knew these questions were not the norm and we had our suspicions about them.â€
Conservative Hispanic Groups Targeted In IRS Scandal
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/05/16/irs-allegedly-targeted-latino-run-conservative-group/
I think we can safely say we now know how Harry Reid knew about Mitt Romney’s finances and whether he was paying his taxes or not. And how Stephanie Cutter knew he had off shore accounts in the Cayman Islands.
Not to mention how Austan Goolsbee was able to release private supposedly "not for the public" tax info on the Koch Brothers.
And why Frank VanderSloot, Co-Chair of Romney’s national campaign was audited by not only the IRS but the Labor Department as well.
Also just as an aside, if I were a 1st Sergeant and two of my platoon sergeants were involved in shady activity and I tried to claim “I don’t have any control over what they’re doingâ€â€¦like someone has been doing lately with people that work for him…I’d be fired on the spot.
Rep. Paul Ryan blasted acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller today during testimony at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing. Ryan pointed out the commissioner’s previous inaccurate statements to the committee.Gateway Pundit (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/paul-ryan-nails-irs-commissioner-who-admits-progressive-groups-were-not-targeted-by-irs-video/)
Paul Ryan also got Miller to admit that liberal groups with progressive names were not targeted by the IRS.
Did Obama’s IRS also harass pro-life groups?Illinois Review (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2013/05/irs-harassment-of-pro-life-groups/)
Chicago’s Thomas More Society reported first dealing with IRS concerns from pro-life groups as early as 2009.
When the Coalition for Life of Iowa sought tax exemption status in 2009, the IRS sought details about the content of members’ prayers at a Planned Parenthood facility. They also demanded that the group refrain both from activities that could be construed as protesting or picketing by police, and to cease activities that could be seen as confrontational or harassing by abortion-seeking clients.
Thomas More Society said the IRS insisted that “every member of the board of directors of the Coalition sign a statement, under penalty of perjury, that they will not picket or protest or organize others to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood.”
Soon after the unprecedented demands were made, the Chicago-based public interest law firm made the legal challenge on behalf of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based group. Shortly thereafter, the IRS backed off and the group was granted 501(c)3 status.
When was this testimony taken? Or more precisely, when is Miller's resignation as acting commissioner of IRS effective?
At this point, Miller has nothing to lose by stonewalling and otherwise making Ryan's job difficult. Yet he does attempt to do so. Why do these bureaucrat ****sticks -- from EITHER side of the ****ing aisle -- refuse to answer questions without deflection, obfuscation, and flat-out lies when they can get away with it?
"I answered the question truthfully," Miller said.
**** you, Miller. You wouldn't recognize the truth if it crawled up your ass and died. :rant: :banghead: :mad: :censored:
IRS Says Release Of Groups’ Materials To ProPublica Was ‘Inadvertent And Unintentional'
ERIC LACH 6:27 PM EDT, FRIDAY MAY 17, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued a statement to ProPublica saying that the agency's release of pending confidential tax-exempt applications from conservative groups last year had been found to be "inadvertent and unintentional disclosures by the employees involved.â€
In the statement, the IRS said the cases had been referred to and reviewed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Uh oh... (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/breaking-obama-met-with-irs-union-chief-the-day-before-agency-started-targeting-conservatives)
Obama Met With IRS Union Chief the Day Before Agency Started Targeting Conservatives
Pure coincidence, nothing to see here, move along.Just like all those White House visits by Bill Ayers and all the other characters they didn't want us to see.
Just to whom or what entity did all of the stolen information go?
Not sure what you mean by stolen? There is a report about Romney donor names being given to a liberal political org. who published their names, which was against the law.
Not sure what you mean by stolen? There is a report about Romney donor names being given to a liberal political org. who published their names, which was against the law.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA.) drew the ire of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) when he argued that the targeting by the IRS was not based on politics, but was an effort to make sure that a status meant for charities was not being abused by political organizations.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/06/04/shame-dem-congressman-blames-conservatives-bringing-irs-scrutiny-themselves