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Federal government demanded a list of everyone a Tennessee organization had ever trained, or planned to trainLinchpins 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 founderIRS 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 ceremonieshttp://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.
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 groupThis 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.
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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 Scandalhttp://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. Paul Ryan also got Miller to admit that liberal groups with progressive names were not targeted by the IRS.
