ABC News actually dares to write:
The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News.
As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That was when the Cincinnati-based IRS unit responsible for overseeing the applications for tax exempt status starting using the phrases “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12″ to search for applications warranting greater scrutiny.
During this first phase, 10 Tea Party cases were identified. By April of 2010, 18 Tea Party organizations were targeted, including three that had already been approved for tax-exempt status.
By June 2011, the unit had flagged over 100 Tea Party-related applications and the criteria used to scrutinize organizations had grown considerably, flagging not just “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in group names, but also groups that were working on issues like “government debt,” “taxes” and even organizations making statements that “criticize how the country is being run.”
But that’s not all. The UKMailOnline reveals:
The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting – including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers
- Lengthy questionnaire arrived more than two years after the Richmond Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status
- IRS demanded ‘names of the donors, contributors, and grantors‘ and insisted: ‘Please identify your volunteers’
- Tax collectors began in 2012 to scrutinize conservative nonprofits more closely than others
- Documents show senior IRS officials in Washington knew of the practice as early as August 2011, but the White House says it learned last month
The IRS ultimately identified approximately 300 such organizations, many of which were independently organized in 2009 and 2010 under the larger ‘tea party’ banner. Those groups had a decisive impact in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, and became a thorn in the side of the Democratic party, costing it race after race, especially in the House of Representatives, which shifted to Republican control.
Don’t you wonder why, for example, MoveOn.org wasn’t targeted? Or any other Leftist organization? If there is evidence of this, I ask: bring it forward. I am quite satisfied there is no such thing, meaning: this was no mistake. This was no “oopsie” event. This was COORDINATED and it was PURPOSEFUL and it was KNOWN right up to the topmost levels of the IRS, the Treasury and perhaps even Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner — who himself is a known tax cheat.
This wasn’t a mistake, it was a purposeful series of events given permission from the highest of management. Individual IRS case officers don’t, for example, tell their supervisors what they will or will not investigate. Their managers tell them.
And, as with Fast & Furious, a concerted series of investigatory events don’t pass unnoticed or unapproved by upper management in any federal investigatory management system. Up to and including the AUSA and beyond. The federal system doesn’t work off the concept of a “fresh arrest,” which is an alien concept. As with the FBI, there is a pre-investigation and then the investigation itself — but only when approved.
Let there be no confusion: this wasn’t a Mistake. It was a Purpose. People need to not only be fired, but CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED for the violation of USC code sections.
The IRS wants all your personal medical information as well.
Even Tom Brokaw says: “I’m offended by the IRS.”
“I’m offended by it,” Brokaw continued. “This is not a political issue or a conservative or a liberal issue. It really is about trusting your government especially when it comes to one of the most sensitive parts.”
Now:
3) The DOJ is found to have tapped the phone records of Associated Press (AP) reporters for months. From the AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
First thought: only when reporters are personally affected do the American Media Maggots somehow locate the air their lungs require to actually object to the rights-killing abominations of the Obaka Administration. They — reporters — are sacrosanct; everyone else, fodder and grist for the mill.
Final thought about Mr Obama’s Umbrage Central: he objects vocally to the IRS events, which means he has NO skin in that game. He, on the other hand, has MUCH skin in the Benghazi game which results in his vocal and continuing denial of responsibility.
I can only hope that Mr Obama is popping Tums and drinking pink cement in quarts, daily.
That would make me smile widely.
BZ
P.S.
As one USAF general told my father at dinner in our on-base house one evening in the late 60s: “I don’t get ulcers; I give them.”
Obama is classless, tasteless, an empty egomaniacal suit. And I have always believed that Mr Obama has NPD.
