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By Thomas Lifson
July 19, 2013
We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was tied to a political appointee of President Obama. Step-by-step the chain is being followed upward by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa.
Jay Carney's assurances that two rogue agents in a back office in the 27th most populous metropolis of America were the problem has been exposed as a blatant, outrageous lie. Now we know that Obama's hand-picked agent was leading the initiative, as far as the people below him in the federal apparatus knew.
Read more: Blog: IRS scandal is unraveling
As the honorable Mr. Elijah Cummings would say, Keep moving folks, nothing to see here. Don't bother with the lies from the White House. It's those lowly IRS employees. Only the uninformed and easily gullible can believe that this Obama regime has nothing to do with this scandal.
I watched most of the hearing yesterday and the behavior of the Democrats on that committee was absolutely horrible. They went from investigating to accusing and from asking questions to shrieking.
The only thing I can make out of that kind of behavior is that as the investigation keeps coming up with more and more evidence of political motivations they get more and more scared. Nothing is more dangerous than when you have a badger cornered and they are definitely acting like that.
By Thomas Lifson
July 19, 2013
We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was tied to a political appointee of President Obama. Step-by-step the chain is being followed upward by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa.
Jay Carney's assurances that two rogue agents in a back office in the 27th most populous metropolis of America were the problem has been exposed as a blatant, outrageous lie. Now we know that Obama's hand-picked agent was leading the initiative, as far as the people below him in the federal apparatus knew.
Read more: Blog: IRS scandal is unraveling
As the honorable Mr. Elijah Cummings would say, Keep moving folks, nothing to see here. Don't bother with the lies from the White House. It's those lowly IRS employees. Only the uninformed and easily gullible can believe that this Obama regime has nothing to do with this scandal.
By Thomas Lifson
July 19, 2013
We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was tied to a political appointee of President Obama. Step-by-step the chain is being followed upward by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa.
Jay Carney's assurances that two rogue agents in a back office in the 27th most populous metropolis of America were the problem has been exposed as a blatant, outrageous lie. Now we know that Obama's hand-picked agent was leading the initiative, as far as the people below him in the federal apparatus knew.
Read more: Blog: IRS scandal is unraveling
As the honorable Mr. Elijah Cummings would say, Keep moving folks, nothing to see here. Don't bother with the lies from the White House. It's those lowly IRS employees. Only the uninformed and easily gullible can believe that this Obama regime has nothing to do with this scandal.
Come back when the American Stinker has some actionable information.
Nothing at the link fits into that category.
"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
Wehrwolf is in the rightwing echo chamber. Once you enter, you never exit, and you never see reality again.
The Ameican Thinker is crap. They can't even get the title right. The scandal is unraveling, but that's not to their liking. Peggy Noonan's WSJ column. :lamo
Peggy Noonan Discovers IRS "Bombshell" She Wrote About Two Months Ago | Blog | Media Matters for America
I don't understand what it is you're trying to show. A couple months ago she said that the "rogue agent" ploy was not something that stood up to logic. Now she is saying that there is evidence to refute the "rogue agent" lie.
This does not seem like a repetition nor does it seem like a contradiction.
She is simply updating based on the most current information.
Almost two months ago she wrote: "Reuters reported high-level IRS officials, including its chief counsel, knew in August 2011 about the targeting."
Today she wrote: "the chief counsel of the IRS is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire agency."
There is no "Bombshell" as the title of today's column indicates.
Rogue agents is not a lie: IRS: Two 'Rogue' Agents Responsible For 'Overly Agressive' Reviews | TPM LiveWire
The 292 in your signature should be 96. Conservatives Struggle With IRS Scandal Numbers | TPMMuckraker
Yeah, you don't want anybody to question George's obstruction of justice and conspiracy with Issa in preparing a false report.
Too bad -- Issa opened up this can of worms, and now he's the worm in the can.
Read the audit yourself.
Numbers culled from the audit are the result of the use of "statistical samples" of all of the applications.
It is very possible that a number was listed in the audit that is an accurate quote of the work of the auditors, but is not an accurate statement of the exact number of the universe of incidents. They are pretty clear in defining these methods as they go through this report of the audit.
I do recall seeing the number 96 in the audit, but that was not the whole number of affected applications. It was only the affected applications in the representative sample.
It's really too bad that obama is a Democrat. If he were a Republican, a whole generation of wanna be Watergate reporters would be cutting their teeth on this lawless Chicago Machine Politician's violations. As it is, they just have to hold to their party loyalties and watch the transgressions occur waiting for the next political campaign when they can once again wheel out their Reporting skills to cover the Republicans.
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf
Almost two months ago she wrote: "Reuters reported high-level IRS officials, including its chief counsel, knew in August 2011 about the targeting."
Today she wrote: "the chief counsel of the IRS is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire agency."
There is no "Bombshell" as the title of today's column indicates.
Rogue agents is not a lie: IRS: Two 'Rogue' Agents Responsible For 'Overly Agressive' Reviews | TPM LiveWire
The 292 in your signature should be 96. Conservatives Struggle With IRS Scandal Numbers | TPMMuckraker
That's wrong, look on page 3 of the following letter to Rep.Levin from TIGTA. The Washington Examine cherry picked from the report.You are either working with old news or believing the union news later. This is a cut and paste from the letter from the IG that contains those accurate numbers in my sig line.
Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups | WashingtonExaminer.com
<snip>
Democrats had noticed that the word "progressives" was on the so-called Be On The Lookout, or BOLO, list. But the Treasury IG suggested that the list wasn't used.
The operative paragraph from the IG letter:
"Based on the information you flagged regarding the existence of a 'Progressives' entry on BOLO lists, TIGTA performed additional research which determined that six tax-exempt applications filed between May 2010 and May 2012 having the words 'progress' or 'progressive' in their names were included in the 298 cases the IRS identified as potential political cases. We also determined that 14 tax-exempt applications filed between May 2010 and May 2012 using the words 'progress' or 'progressive' in their names were not referred for added scrutiny as potential political cases. In total, 30 percent of the organizations we identified with the words 'progress' or "progressive" in their names were processed as potential political cases. In comparison, our audit found that 100 percent of the tax-exempt applications with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in their names were processed as potential political cases during the timeframe of our audit."
<snip>
Your report states that TIGTA "reviewed all 298 applications that had been identifiedas potential political cases as of May 31, 2012." (See page 10 of your report.) Yourreport includes the following breakdown of the potential political cases byorganization name: (1) 96 were "Tea Party," "9/12," or "Patriots" organizations; and(2) 202 were "Other." Why did your report not identify that liberal organizations werealso included among the 298 applications you reviewed?TIGTA did not make any characterizations
of
any organizations
in
its audit report asconservative or liberal and believes it would be inappropriate for a nonpartisanInspector General to make such judgments. Instead, our audit focused
on
thetesting
of
296
of
the 298 potential political cases (two case files were incomplete) todetermine if they were selected using the actual criteria that should have been usedby the IRS from the beginning to screen potential political cases. Those criteriawere whether the specific applications had indications
of
significant amounts
of
political campaign intervention
(a
term used
in
Treasury's Regulations). For69 percent of the 296 cases, TIGTA found that there were indications of significantpolitical campaign intervention, while
31
percent
of
the cases did not have thatevidence.
We
also reviewed samples of
501
(c)(4) cases that were not identified aspotential political cases to determine if they should have been.
We
estimate thatmore than 175 applications were not appropriately identified as potential politicalcases.TIGTA's audit report determined that certain cases were referred for potentialpolitical review because their names used terms
in
the IRS selection criteria. Wecould not tell why other organizations were selected for additional scrutiny becausethe IRS did not document specifically why the cases were forwarded to a team ofspecialists. TIGTA recommended that the IRS do so
in
the future
By Thomas Lifson
July 19, 2013
We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was tied to a political appointee of President Obama. Step-by-step the chain is being followed upward by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa.
Jay Carney's assurances that two rogue agents in a back office in the 27th most populous metropolis of America were the problem has been exposed as a blatant, outrageous lie. Now we know that Obama's hand-picked agent was leading the initiative, as far as the people below him in the federal apparatus knew.
Read more: Blog: IRS scandal is unraveling
As the honorable Mr. Elijah Cummings would say, Keep moving folks, nothing to see here. Don't bother with the lies from the White House. It's those lowly IRS employees. Only the uninformed and easily gullible can believe that this Obama regime has nothing to do with this scandal.
You're very impressionable, aren't you? and if want to see uninformed and gullible, look in the mirror my friend ... the rest of us want to see concrete evidence, not this circus Issa is running ... he should be out stealing cars which is what he does best, instead of wasting our time with this ...
The Ameican Thinker is crap. They can't even get the title right. The scandal is unraveling, but that's not to their liking. Peggy Noonan's WSJ column. :lamo
Peggy Noonan Discovers IRS "Bombshell" She Wrote About Two Months Ago | Blog | Media Matters for America
Counter American Thinker by mocking its credability and then posting Media Matters...
You've made an allegation regarding "George's" obstruction of Justice and a conspiracy with Issa. Can you show facts. While we are at it, are you claiming that since G.W. Bush supposedly committed a felony, it gives Obama the right to do the same?
That's wrong, look on page 3 of the following letter to Rep.Levin from TIGTA. The Washington Examine cherry picked from the report.
TIGTA Response to Levin
We know the facts: Issa contacted George, a republican operative in the IRS, who produced a false report that purposely held back information that showed the IRS was targeting progressive groups.
Now we need an investigation to see how Issa and George colluded. Suddenly you don't like investigations, I see. Tough luck. I hear Reid is contemplating one.
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