The over-reaching power of the IRS and why it needs to be GUTTED

Posted on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 by BZ

This is one chilling video, and John Eastman nails it precisely:

Following that testimony, it was revealed that, concurrently, the IRS pisses away your money:

IRS Audit Details $4.1 Million Conference

By SIOBHAN HUGHES

WASHINGTON—The 2010 Internal Revenue Service employee conference that has drawn criticism paid $17,000 to a keynote speaker who drew pictures of the singer Bono and the physicist Albert Einstein to inspire IRS employees to free up their thought process and find creative solutions to challenges, according to a report released Tuesday.

The conference for 2,609 employees in Anaheim, Calif., cost $4.1 million. Lawmakers had recently released some details of the conference—including videos of IRS workers engaged in a “Star Trek” parody and a line dance—but the full report wasn’t publicly available until Tuesday.

Republican Darrell Issa weighs in with logic:

“The wasteful Anaheim conference is one example of a culture of excess that plagues the IRS and many federal agencies,” said Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, (R., Calif.) in a statement released Tuesday. “Taxpayer money meant to pay for a core agency mission, the hiring of more enforcement personnel, was instead spent on a lavish party. Perhaps most disturbingly, there appears to have been little or no effort by the IRS to hold those responsible for this wasteful spending accountable.”

And watch the testimony of Becky Gerritson:

Further:

Rep. Jim McDermott (D., Wash.) gave the hearing a jolt when he questioned whether the conservatives were being unreasonable by claiming that they were entitled to a tax-advantaged status on a fast-track basis for political work. “Each of your groups is highly political,” Mr. McDermott said. “You are all entrenched in some of the most controversial political issues in the country, and with your applications you were asking the American public to pay for that work,” Mr. McDermott said.

That prompted a strong reaction from Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.).

“We have not heard any testimony that this is happening to groups that have the opposing views,” Mr. Ryan said, looking at Mr. McDermott. “So to suggest that these citizens are to blame for applying—I don’t understand how anyone can make that conclusion,” Mr. Ryan said.

These weren’t accidents. They were acts of overt intimidation. These acts were condoned by their administrations. The Obama Administration.

What about Organizing For Action? What about MoveOn.org?

There are rules for those supporting Obama. There are separate rules for those opposing Obama. Who knew? Who gave the orders? When did they know it?

Yes. Your loving IRS.

BREAKING: Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

Posted on Friday, May 24, 2013 by BZ

From, oddly enough, NBC News:

By Michael Isikoff
National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News

Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his counterterrorism policy, said Holder had agreed to review Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve journalists.

Holder previously said he recused himself from the AP subpoena because he had been questioned as a witness in the underlying investigation into a leak about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen. His role in personally approving the Rosen search warrant had not been previously reported.

Ladies and gentlemen, the fingerprints may finally be on the knife.

The fingerprints belonging to a major player in the OBAMA Cabinet.

James Rosen’s warrant was signed by Eric Holder.

And so: WHY isn’t this splayed all over the national media?

Oh yeah; right.

Obama is so duplicitous. He mentions the case; he purposely does not mention Eric Holder and does not call for the resignation or firing or prosecution of Eric Holder.

Ben Stein — who worked in the Nixon Administration, just said on O’Reilly: “This is Richard Nixon all over again, minus all the foreign policy achievements.”

IRS Lois Lerner: “I take the Fifth”

Posted on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by BZ

As predicted, Lois Lerner took the Fifth during her alleged “testimony.”

Except that, first, she made a self-serving statement, then refused to testify.

The arrogance of the IRS and this administration, by extension, is phenomenal.

“I have not done anything wrong.”

Really?

Except be an obstructionist.

When people think you’re guilty because you plead the Fifth — they’re correct.

IRS: taking the Fifth

Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 by BZ

Seized phone records? White House staffers? Fox News reporters — plural?

And now the IRS is taking the Fifth?

Because you know, when people start taking the Fifth, you are ON the proper track.

From the UKDailyMail (a foreign news source that I trust):

Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program

By David Martosko

PUBLISHED: 16:14 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:51 EST, 21 May 2013

The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.

The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.

Lerner’s defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III, wrote to the committee on Tuesday that his client would refuse to answer questions related to what she knew about the extra levels of scrutiny applied to conservative nonprofit organizations that applied for tax-exempt status beginning in 2010.

This just seems to be getting worse. The IRS, the AP angle, Benghazi, And I find it very difficult not to smile widely at the news, and at the fact that Mr Obama’s tailfeathers seem to find themselves on fire.

The Obama DOJ is doing more to oppress the freedom of the press than the Nixon IRS every dreamed of, or was thought to have done. More ass-covering over Benghazi than Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia.

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But did these hacks stop with Rosen and Fox News? Apparently not. Now a CBS News reporter weighs in, targeted because of Fast & Furious:

Sharyl Attkisson’s computers compromised

By DYLAN BYERS |

5/21/13 11:18 AM EDT

Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.

“I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public.”

Yes, folks, “way back” at Fast & Furious, the Obama Administration was seeking to stem the information that the American public — American Taxpayers — deserve, as an accounting, of where and how our tax money is spent. Because, make no mistake: these fucktards in DC do what they do only because we fund them. We pay their salaries, we pay them to create laws to oppress us, we pay them to obfuscate and lie and prevaricate and deflect. We pay them to work against the best interests of us: American Taxpayers. Try to wrap your brain around that concept.

The IRS doing what it does best under Obama: oppressing Conservatives and singling them out for . It’s a culture that shows a complete lack of moral fiber — mirroring nothing more than Mr Obama himself. It is a Culture of Intimidation.

Freedom of the Press? Freedom of American Taxpayers whose blood, sweat and tears are funneled to DC?

Sorry maggots, that just doesn’t happen in this administration. Harder work and more of it, taxpayers. Then shut the hell up.

Obama the Imperial and his minions have decreed it so.

P.S.
More: The liberal union behind the IRS funded any and all anti-TEA Party candidates.

Obama and the IRS: the smoking gun?

As Dennis Prager said yesterday “The idea of diversity to the Left is to subvert the idea of merit.”

It just gets better: “Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups’ Confidential Docs”

Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by BZ

From Breitbart.com:

by Wynton Hall 14 May 2013, 7:59 AM PDT 1226 post a comment

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.

You mean to say that Leftists went after Conservatives under a Leftist government? Shocking, I tell you! Shocking!

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.”

Isn’t it criminal to steal the tax information of others?

And, isn’t it — as Obama says — just another “side-show.”

Except that this so-called “side-show,” Mr Obama, is a show entirely of your creation, helmed by you, abetted by you, rubber-stamped by you.

This is the new Obama:

Barack Milhous Obama

Though this will be swept aside to a major degree by Obama-fellating American Media Maggots, there are still a handful of true journalists who will cover the information, though they clearly number in the minority.

For an administration that sold itself as the “most transparent in history,” it would seem that unprecedented opacity is the actual norm.

I am so incredibly tired that the American Media Maggots continuously portray these abrogations, these heinous abuses of power, as “mistakes.” They are not mistakes; they were made with great purpose and, as a result, there should be criminal investigations and resulting convictions. People should be put into prison.

And there needs to be a Special Prosecutor. We need to know what went on in these events — Benghazi, the IRS, the AP taps — and, absent a Special Counsel, this illegal conduct will simply be whitewashed. Someone needs to be INDEPENDENT of the DOJ and the White House.

The investigation needs to be comprehensive, thorough, honest and truly independent. There is no room for any kind of “committee;” our government’s veracity is being undermined by Barack Hussein Obama on a scale that grows with each passing week. It is, to quote Hugh Hewitt, “serial lawbreaking” on the part of the Obama Administration — and Mr Obama is responsible. It is his cabinet, his employees, taking place on his Watch.

The coercive powers of government were used for partisan politics, plain and simple.

Bloviating Zeppelin

Right thinking from a Left brain.

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