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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/11/extra-irs-scrutiny-on-conservative-applications-shows-corruption-palin-says/?hpt=hp_t2
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
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She looks good. Nice little whore belt she's got on.
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She is hot
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She is hot
I concur.
I would definitely fuck that crazy bitch. Even her detractors can't deny that she's quite sexy for her age. And from what I gather, Wasilla prides itself on the quality of their marijuana. I could never quite picture Sarah with, say, a Marlboro Light; I can, however, very EASILY see her smoking tons of the local ganja. Probably still does.
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I concur.
I would definitely fuck that crazy bitch. Even her detractors can't deny that she's quite sexy for her age. And from what I gather, Wasilla prides itself on the quality of their marijuana. I could never quite picture Sarah with, say, a Marlboro Light; I can, however, very EASILY see her smoking tons of the local ganja. Probably still does.
Yeah, haven't been getting laid much due to relationship issues, I'd think about it. ;D
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
excellent post.
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
a flat tax? are you serious? so someone who makes a billion dollars in a year, should pay the same amount of money as someone who made 50k?
unless you mean a flat percentage I think thats a crappy idea.
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a flat tax? are you serious? so someone who makes a billion dollars in a year, should pay the same amount of money as someone who made 50k?
unless you mean a flat percentage I think thats a crappy idea.
Of course he means flat percentage. That is the only fair method. The rich would pay alot more that they do now, thats why we will never see it pass.
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When Ross P ran for President he said he only pays about 2% taxes because of all his write offs and he makes serious money.
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Would've been a great prez! :-*
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A flat tax would disproportionately affect poorer and lower-end middle class families a lot moreso than the wealthier groups. Let us say that a family makes 20k a year and the flat tax rate is 20%.........their net income would be 18k.....that missing 2k could definitely mean choosing whether to eat or pay the light bell. Whereas a family making 200k would have to end up getting a Chrysler instead of a BMW due to that flat tax rate.
As far as targeting goes, various conservative groups' members are more likely to avoid taxes due to their consistent rhetoric about well, hating the IRS and not funding welfare and other social programs.
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A flat tax would disproportionately affect poorer and lower-end middle class families a lot moreso than the wealthier groups. Let us say that a family makes 20k a year and the flat tax rate is 20%.........their net income would be 18k.....that missing 2k could definitely mean choosing whether to eat or pay the light bell. Whereas a family making 200k would have to end up getting a Chrysler instead of a BMW due to that flat tax rate.
As far as targeting goes, various conservative groups' members are more likely to avoid taxes due to their consistent rhetoric about well, hating the IRS and not funding welfare and other social programs.
You didn't do well in math, so I will help. 20% of 20k is 4k, so the net would be 16k. 20% is a high flat tax. I would like to see 10% flat tax, so if u make 20k u pay 2k, 200k u pay 20k, 2 million u pay 200k, 20 million u pay 2 million, etc.
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Tax-exempt groups organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code are allowed to engage in some political activity, but the primary focus of their efforts must remain promoting social welfare.
The new disclosures are likely to inflame a widening controversy over IRS handling of dozens of applications by tea-party, patriot and other conservative groups for tax-exempt status.
The details emerged from disclosures to congressional investigators by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The findings, which were reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, don't make clear who came up with the idea to give extra scrutiny to the conservative groups.
The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax exempt status. John McKinnon reports on the News Hub.
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The inspector general's office has been conducting an audit of the IRS's handling of the applications process and is expected to release a report this week. The audit follows complaints last year by numerous tea-party and other conservative groups that they had been singled out and subjected to excessive and inappropriate questioning. Many groups say they were asked for lists of their donors and other sensitive information.
On Sunday, a government official said the report will note that IRS officials told investigators that no one outside the IRS was involved in developing the criteria the agency now acknowledges were flawed.
On Friday, Lois Lerner, head of the IRS tax-exempt-organizations division, said the agency was "apologetic" for what she termed "absolutely inappropriate" actions by lower-level workers. She said those workers had selected some conservative groups for extra scrutiny to determine whether their applications should be approved. She said they had picked groups for extra scrutiny according to whether they had "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, among other criteria.
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Ms. Lerner came to the IRS in 2001 from the Federal Election Commission, and assumed her current position in 2006. IRS officials said Sunday that Ms. Lerner wasn't available for comment, and she didn't respond to an emailed request.
GOP lawmakers stepped up their criticism on Sunday. "The bottom line is [IRS officials] used key words to go after conservatives," Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "There has to be accountability for the people who did it. And, quite frankly…there's got to be accountability for people who were telling lies about it being done."
Some Democrats also voiced criticism. "I'm concerned about that," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), also on NBC. "Somebody made the decision that they would give extra scrutiny to this particular group. And I think we have to understand why."
The IRS said over the weekend it is in the process of independently confirming the dates mentioned on the timeline of events contained in the inspector general report, "but we believe the [inspector general's] timeline is correct." The IRS said the report supports its view that its missteps weren't politically motivated and were limited to lower-level workers.
The IRS also said the report reflects that "IRS senior leadership was not aware of this level of specific details" at the time of a March 2012 hearing where Mr. Shulman denied any targeting of conservative groups. Mr. Shulman, who no longer works for the IRS, declined to comment.
The new details suggest that agency workers were examining statements in applications for tax-exempt status to determine whether groups had political leanings.
Tax-exempt social-welfare groups organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code are allowed to engage in some political activity, but the primary focus of their efforts must remain promoting social welfare. That social-welfare activity can include lobbying and advocating for issues and legislation, but not outright political-campaign activity. But some of the rules leave room for IRS officials to make judgment calls and probe individual groups for further information.
Organizing as such a group is desirable, not just because such entities typically don't have to pay taxes, but also because they generally don't have to identify their donors.
IRS officials said last week that the focused review of conservative groups was initiated by lower-level civil servants in the IRS Cincinnati office, not by political appointees in Washington, and that it wasn't politically motivated. They say it stemmed from a misguided effort to centralize review of a growing number of applications for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status.
But questions continued to swirl about the failure of IRS officials to disclose the problems until the inspector general's report was about to become public.
The timeline contained in the draft report indicates that IRS scrutiny of tea-party and other conservative groups began as early as 2010 and came to the attention of Ms. Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt-organizations division, at least by the following year.
The report's timeline indicates that the criteria were changed to be more neutral in July 2011 after Ms. Lerner "raised concerns." The criteria for heightened scrutiny continued to evolve over the next year or so, even as complaints from tea-party groups—and questions from GOP lawmakers—mounted over IRS inquiries to various groups about their activities.
Letters from Ms. Lerner in April and May 2012 responding to questions by Republican lawmakers made no mention of the problems that had surfaced in the IRS unit.
According to the draft report, on April 24 and 25 of last year, officials in Ms. Lerner's office were reviewing "troubling questions" that had been asked of organizations, including "the names of donors."
Ms. Lerner's April 26 letter to Mr. Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said that "there are instances where donor information may be needed…such as when the application presents possible issues of…private benefit."
The report indicates that in 2010 and 2011, some IRS workers weren't just singling out groups because their names contained certain words, as IRS officials suggested on Friday, but appeared to be probing for indications of political interests or leanings.
According to the report, by June 2011 some IRS specialists were probing applications using the following criteria: "issues include government spending, government debt or taxes; education of the public by advocacy/lobbying to 'make America a better place to live'; statements in the case file criticize how the country is being run."
Write to John D. McKinnon at john.mckinnon@wsj.com and Siobhan Hughes at siobhan.hughes@dowjones.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578478851998004528.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
Republicans would normally be calling for the head of the Commissioner if the IRS over targeting conservatives, except there IS no Commissioner. It is one of the thousands of Presidential appointments that they refuse to allow Obama to appoint. Talk about coming back to bite them in the ass.
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
Then you can surely point at examples during Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and Carter administrations when the IRS targeted liberal or conservative political groups for additional reviews to threaten their tax exempt status.
If you can't, then it's clearly not the same IRS.
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Republicans would normally be calling for the head of the Commissioner if the IRS over targeting conservatives, except there IS no Commissioner. It is one of the thousands of Presidential appointments that they refuse to allow Obama to appoint. Talk about coming back to bite them in the ass.
They knew about this from 2011 and it goes back to March 2010. What did obama know and when did he know it?
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Republicans would normally be calling for the head of the Commissioner if the IRS over targeting conservatives, except there IS no Commissioner. It is one of the thousands of Presidential appointments that they refuse to allow Obama to appoint. Talk about coming back to bite them in the ass.
Is this true?
They cant do anything right these people.
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Is this true?
They cant do anything right these people.
Let's see what the peanut gallery says. ;D
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Let's see what the peanut gallery says. ;D
Are you even following what happened?
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Still no word on why there is no Commissioner in that spot? This must sound crazy to idiots, but if you are worried about how well a particular agency is functioning, it MIGHT be a good idea to allow someone to run it. Ya think?
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, ABOLISHED then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
Corrected.
Countries can operate just fine without any system of taxation, ...just as the US did pre 1913, and as many do today.
Taxes are nothing more than the legislated theft of your wealth & labour. They are unnecessary.
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The IRS Targeting Scandal Could Disrupt Obamacare
Josh Boak and Eric Planin, The Fiscal Times|57 minutes ago|270|3
The Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting of Tea Party-themed and other conservative groups could severely damage President Obama – but it’s not necessarily because anyone close to the White House sanctioned the allegedly independent actions by the tax collection agency.
In fact, the president was quick on Monday to condemn the actions exposed in an inspector general's report being released later this week.
The real fallout could be that it will impede Obamacare, which passed in 2010 under the official title of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The IRS will largely administer this attempt at providing near-universal health insurance. It is responsible for overseeing the tax credits and tax increases in the law, and—most critically—ensuring that businesses and individuals comply with the individual mandate and other major provisions.
Prominent Republicans are already connecting the unpopular insurance program to the questions swirling around the IRS targeting of non-profits that grew out of the Tea Party movement.
For them, the scandal is just what the doctor ordered, a chance to attack the IRS--a perennial punching bag--as politically tainted while linking the scandal back to a massive implementation challenge confronting the administration. The House plans a symbolic vote this week to repeal Obamacare, the 37th time it has done so.
Former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich declared Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," "How can you put Obamacare under the Internal Revenue Service?
“Why would you trust the bureaucracy with your health if you can’t trust the bureaucracy with your politics?" he said. "There are bureaucrats in the IRS who are capable of ruining your life while lying about it.”
"Americans should remember that this same corrupt IRS will be in charge of enforcing Obamacare," Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page Friday. "Forgive me for not trusting these big government promises any more than I trust the White House’s latest Benghazi spin or the IRS’ fairness."
Ahead of a House Ways and Means Committee hearing this Friday about the IRS scandal, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., said the IRS has no business monitoring anyone's health insurance information. "I will not rest until the full scope of the IRS’ corruption is uncovered, the guilty parties are held accountable, and actions are taken to ensure this never happens again," Black, a member of the committee, told Newsmax.
The IRS has undermined its own credibility on the issue. It initially claimed before a congressional committee that conservative groups were not under a special microscope. The agency then apologized last week for targeting that supposedly occurred out of a Cincinnati field office. But a new report by the Washington Post on Monday says that IRS officials in Washington and California also queried conservative groups, who were told at the time that a Washington-based task force was overseeing their applications.
But long before the current uproar over the IRS scrutiny of these politically motivated groups seeking non-profit status, Republicans were challenging budget and staffing levels at the IRS and demanding to know how much the agency intended to spend to implement Obama’s health care reform law.
The agency has been saddled with an expanding workload and relatively flat funding levels for years that have left the IRS unable to adequately perform its primary duties – collecting taxes, overseeing audits, and providing the public with reasonable service.
As a result, the agency has struggled to collect the hundreds of billions of dollars a year that the government is owed but not paid, Nina E. Olson, the national taxpayer advocate, said in her annual report to Congress last year.
Last June, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report estimated that the IRS would spend $881 million of taxpayers’ money to implement the first four years of Obamacare, including about $500 million that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) diverted to the agency.
The Administration has requested $440 million as part of its 2014 budget proposal to help the IRS prepare for implementing the health care law. And the IRS has estimated that it would need to assign a total of 2,195 employees to deal with health care reform by the end of this year.
Some Republicans believe that the IRS and administration are intentionally low-balling the actual cost and manpower needs. In March, Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., the chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, called on the acting IRS commissioner Steven T. Miller to provide a detailed accounting on the costs of administering Obamacare.
Now with House Republican leaders furious about how the IRS treated conservative groups—despite their past denials— several analysts say it is possible the controversy could be used as another excuse to cut agency funding and manpower to further thwart implementing Obamacare.
“When people look at funding the IRS they’re going to take into account everything that’s out there,” said Floyd Williams, a former legislative affairs director for the IRS who is now with a private Washington public policy strategies firm. “It’s no secret some in Congress have been trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, let alone limit IRS funding for enforcement . . . . [The] IRS has already suffered the past three years with a status quo budget, which basically is a reduction, especially if you look at people who retired and haven’t been able to be replaced. Now, you have sequestration coming up. All of that added together spells trouble for the IRS and tax law enforcement.”
Paul Van de Water, a health care policy expert with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, cautioned that “it’s hard to tell at this point” what -- if any -- effect the flap over the IRS’s dealing with conservative groups will have on funding for Affordable Care Act enforcement.
“It seems to me that Republicans haven’t lacked for reasons not to provide enough funding for the IRS in the past, so it’s not as if they need a new reason to do so, but who knows? When you get into the realm of politics, all sorts of strange things can happen.”
Under the legislation, the IRS will provide insurance premium tax credits to help low and moderate income people purchase health coverage. It also will impose penalties on employers that fail to provide insurance and individuals who decline to purchase the coverage made available to them.
But even without Obamacare, this week’s scandal does have some legs of its own.
The investigative journalism non-profit ProPublica reported Monday that it had received at the end of last year from the IRS Cincinnati office the confidential and pending applications for tax exemption from nine conservative groups.
While many organizations bearing the Tea Party name are small players, the applications provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request included forms submitted by the Karl Rove-linked Crossroads GPS and Americans for Responsible Leadership, an Arizona-based group that supported Republican presidential candidate with more than $5.2 million in expenditures.
More from The Fiscal Times:
Diamonds: A Better Safe Haven Than Gold?
Detroit Needs a Miracle As It Sinks Deeper in Debt
Has Obama Taken a Page Out of Nixon’s Playbook?
This story was originally published by The Fiscal Times.
Read more: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/05/14/Why-the-IRS-Scandal-Could-Bring-Down-Obamacare.aspx#page1#ixzz2TGZpthY9
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This just in: non-existent IRS Commissioner refuses to step down!
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More scandal coming. Progressive groups were fed confidential docs by IRS in lead up to he election.
Hope and change suckers.
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Posted on May 14, 2013, 11:40:00 AM EDT by Perdogg
The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Time to fire that commissioner huh?
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Time to fire that commissioner huh?
It wasn't funny the first time 5 times you said it.
Are you actually going to discuss the topic of the thread or continue on like the creepy douche you are?
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Still no word on why there is no Commissioner in that spot? This must sound crazy to idiots, but if you are worried about how well a particular agency is functioning, it MIGHT be a good idea to allow someone to run it. Ya think?
Something to think about, yep. Should make a person look hard at a situation like that.
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Who gives a fuck about the commissioner? Has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.
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Who gives a fuck about the commissioner? Has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.
That may be the idea.
Not a big follower of mainstream news anymore, so may be out there on this one, but is there some argument to say that a lack of leadership isn't by convenient design?
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That may be the idea.
Not a big follower of mainstream news anymore, so may be out there on this one, but is there some argument to say that a lack of leadership isn't by convenient design?
This was all started as far as we know out of the division for not for profits. And even worse it looks like it goes way beyond that now into the audit division.
Obama is running a mafia govt like Papa Doc or Mugabe
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This was all started as far as we know out of the division for not for profits. And even worse it looks like it goes way beyond that now into the audit division.
Obama is running a mafia govt like Papa Doc or Mugabe
What of the argument that this was simply a method by which to seek evidence to show the groups weren't what they were representing themselves to be?
Again, haven't been following...just wondering about it.
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What of the argument that this was simply a method by which to seek evidence to show the groups weren't what they were representing themselves to be?
Again, haven't been following...just wondering about it.
Because they only did this to tea party people exlusively.
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Because they only did this to tea party people exlusively.
Is this for certain?
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Is this for certain?
Yes - they admitted it
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Attorney General Eric Holder Says He Has Ordered A Criminal Investigation Into IRS Scandal
Brett LoGiurato|13 minutes ago|347|1
NBC News
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he recused himself from a case involving a Department of Justice decision to subpoena phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors.
Holder also said that the Justice Department has ordered a criminal investigation into the IRS' targeting of different conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. Holder called it "outrageous and unacceptable."
On the AP phone probe, Holder said that the leak being investigated was one of the "top two or three" leaks he has ever seen, claiming it put the American people at risk.
"That is not hyperbole. It put the American people at risk," Holder said, emphasizing his earlier comments.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-phone-records-doj-justice-dept-eric-holder-2013-5#ixzz2TI9TmQIS
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Attorney General Eric Holder Says He Has Ordered A Criminal Investigation Into IRS Scandal
Brett LoGiurato|13 minutes ago|347|1
NBC News
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he recused himself from a case involving a Department of Justice decision to subpoena phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors.
Holder also said that the Justice Department has ordered a criminal investigation into the IRS' targeting of different conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. Holder called it "outrageous and unacceptable."
On the AP phone probe, Holder said that the leak being investigated was one of the "top two or three" leaks he has ever seen, claiming it put the American people at risk.
"That is not hyperbole. It put the American people at risk," Holder said, emphasizing his earlier comments.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-phone-records-doj-justice-dept-eric-holder-2013-5#ixzz2TI9TmQIS
Does anyone else laugh whenever they hear that Holder is going to do a criminal investigation into a situation involving the current white house or that may somehow be linked to the current administration?
Lol, I'm sure he's going to take this so seriously and that he's really going to loom for wrongdoing, with absolutley zero chance that he would cover it up or overlook evidence.
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Does anyone else laugh whenever they hear that Holder is going to do a criminal investigation into a situation involving the current white house or that may somehow be linked to the current administration?
Lol, I'm sure he's going to take this so seriously and that he's really going to loom for wrongdoing, with absolutley zero chance that he would cover it up or overlook evidence.
I'm still waiting for the results of the fast and furious mess, lol
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It wasn't funny the first time 5 times you said it.
Are you actually going to discuss the topic of the thread or continue on like the creepy douche you are?
If repeating something ad nauseum was a problem for you, you would be all over your hero's ovaries due to his continuous repetitive drivel in every thread. Oh wait... you are already all over those ovaries.
But for different reasons. Carry on pissant.
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Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs
by Wynton Hall
14 May 2013, 7:59 AM PDT
The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.
The commendable admission lends further evidence to the lengths the IRS went during an election cycle to silence tea party and limited government voices.
ProPublica says the documents the IRS gave them were “not supposed to be made public”:
The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year... In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six of those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)
The group says that "no unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica.”
According to Media Research Center Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor, ProPublica’s financial backers include top progressive donors:
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 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.
On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to hold a formal hearing on the IRS conservative targeting scandal. IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George are slated to testify.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/Progressive-Group-Says-IRS-Gave-Them-Confidential-Docs-On-Conservative-Groups
Jesus - corruption at its worst
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Who gives a fuck about the commissioner? Has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.
Worth repeating for the mentally impaired.
Still no word on why there is no Commissioner in that spot? This must sound crazy to idiots, but if you are worried about how well a particular agency is functioning, it MIGHT be a good idea to allow someone to run it. Ya think?
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Worth repeating for the mentally impaired.
This started back in 2010 dipshit and the then commissioner knew about it in 2011 and never said anything
Try to keep up.
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Why is it still empty? What year it happened doesn't matter or have any relative bearing on why the position is empty.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/israel-related-groups-also-pointed-to-irs-scrutiny-91298.html
WTF!!!
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To be fair, this is the same IRS that operated under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter....etc etc
People can point out corruption in the government till they are blue in the face, they can rant and rave on the politics threads about how much better the Republicans are to the Democrats and visa versa and swear all it will take to straighten out his country is if ____ wins the Presidential race and ______ is the majority in the house and sentate. However, until the current tax system is overhauled and replaced with a flat tax and loopholes are closed across the board, then I will never believe the citizens have the power to see any positive changes no matter who is in power at the time...
Doesn't matter which administration it operated under, the order to target conservatives was giving under this administration. That being said, who gave the order?
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Gee straw...ur defending the IRS on this. I swear you'll actually volunteer for the FEMA camps. You'd have made a great Jew....many did the same kinda thing until it was to late.
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I'm still waiting for the results of the fast and furious mess, lol
Who was immediately in charge of ATF when that happened?
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BARRY OBAMA........if this was the military....as a commander you are ultimately responsible for everything that does or does not happen in your command. The Navy has fired a ton of commanders of the last 18 months....Barry should join them.