According to a partial transcript released by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and House Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) This went so well last time he tried it.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Cinci IRS official Elizabeth Hofrace, in her prepared remarks, says she was tasked with reviewing tea party applications...</p>— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/statuses/357876080448765954">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hofrace: occasionally liberal groups would be flagged. "I would send those apps to general inventory" b/c they were outside Tea Party scope.</p>— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/statuses/357876287139872768">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Reading over the prepared statement of retiring IRS official Carter Hull, who implicates numerous DC IRS officials in tea party targeting.</p>— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/statuses/357874858572513280">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hull: Lois Lerner "instructed everyone that the applications should be referred to as 'advocacy' applications, not 'Tea Party' applications"</p>— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/statuses/357875067570487298">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IRS&src=hash">#IRS</a> witness Hofacre says she believes DC officials blaming Cincinnati officials for <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IRS&src=hash">#IRS</a> targeting were deliberately misleading the public.</p>— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenfhayes/statuses/357900840117346304">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IRS&src=hash">#IRS</a> employee: I was deeply offended when DC supervisors blamed people like me as "rogue" employees. We were following their orders.</p>— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/statuses/357889200516898821">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
well, got dayum. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>WSJ: IRS chief counsel William Wilkins represented Jeremiah Wright's church pro bono during 2008 inquiry. <a href="http://t.co/2hrBRZGxiK">http://t.co/2hrBRZGxiK</a></p>— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenfhayes/statuses/357921597476179968">July 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
"political targeting" the simple truth is that as long as a a preponderance of Republicans are hiding political activities within 501(c) organizations, the higher a proportion will be caught to a list that includes ALL political persuasions, as we have found out.
of course, one can always ignore the political targeting of a group that looks at "targeting" at one group by well, removing the other (LOL)
Hilarious that this is still going on, despite zero evidence this came from the white house. Issa has really taken some people for a ride.
well now: White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller. Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information. Ingram attempted to counsel the White House on a lawsuit from religious organizations opposing Obamacare’s contraception mandate. Email exchanges involving Ingram and White House officials — including White House health policy advisor Ellen Montz and deputy assistant to the president for health policy Jeanne Lambrew — contained confidential taxpayer information, according to Oversight. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/09/w...ged-confidential-taxpayer-info/#ixzz2hFf0Fuyn
Representative Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), as usual doing the unpleasant work of trying to figure out what exactly it is our so-called public servants are up to all day, requested a series of e-mail exchanges between IRS staffers and White House political personnel regarding provisions of the new health-care law requiring religious organizations to violate their consciences and pay for contraceptives and abortifacients. The e-mail transcripts came back partly redacted, and the IRS labeled those redactions “6103.” And those four digits are a serious problem for the IRS and the Obama administration. The number 6103 is the IRS’s notation for information that is being redacted because it contains confidential taxpayer information. There are relatively few people authorized to view 6103 information, mostly nonpolitical staff at the IRS (i.e., the guy performing your audit) and, in a few narrow circumstances, particular members of Congress — not including Darrell Issa, apparently. But the content of those 6103 redactions is in e-mails sent by IRS professional staff, who have access to all manner of private taxpayer information, to White House political staff, who are barred by law from receiving 6103 information. There are two possibilities here: Either the IRS is attempting to stonewall Issa’s investigation by improperly and illegally redacting documents he has requested, or the IRS improperly and illegally shared confidential taxpayer information with White House political staff. The latter is the more likely outcome. http://nationalreview.com/article/361007/irs-vs-privacy-editors
This election cycle Obama wants to codify his ability to use the IRS to shutdown the activities of Tea Party groups going into the midterms. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304603704579324783339931114?mod=trending_now_1
Getting the Obama administration to do the right thing is even more of a challenge. If the Republicans use this type of illegal behavior on Democrats in 2016, I am going to howl with laughter every time you complain.
what redistricting/voter ID laws/supreme court miscarriages/Bush aide that mysteriously dies after threatening to reveal vote fraud in key swing states howl with laughter indeed. yay dirty politics.
