5/12/13, "Wider Problems Found at IRS," Wall St. Journal, McKinnon, Hughes, "Sweeping criteria used"...
"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."...
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5/11/13, "Report: Top IRS officials knew in 2011 that conservative groups were targeted," Washington Post, Josh Hicks and Ed O'Keefe
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5/11/13, "Why the IRS Abruptly Apologized to the Tea Party," Atlantic Wire, Connor Simpson
"It came as a surprise when the Internal Revenue Service apologized, seemingly out of the blue, to a number of Tea Party groups for unfairly scrutinizing their tax exempt status on Friday. Now we know why the apology came when it did.
The Associated Press' Stephen Ohlemacher reports
a federal watchdog report coming out this week will show senior IRS
officials knew about the unfair scrutiny as far back as 2011. The report
from the Treasury Department's inspector general shows Lois Lerner, the
head of the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups, was informed
that groups with "Tea Party," ''Patriot" or "9/12 Project" in their
names were being targeted for extra questioning at a meeting on June 29,
2011. During Lerner's apology on Friday,
he [she?] blamed the targeting on lower-level tax agents. The report seems to
show Lerner was telling the truth on Friday. The report shows he told
the agents to change the criteria for flagging groups "immediately."
The focus will now become whether or not IRS commissioner Doug Shulman knew about the questions when he testified that no Tea Party groups were being targeted for unfair scrutiny in front of Congress in 2012. The report doesn't say whether or not Shulman was informed about the Tea Party questioning, but it does show the IRS's chief counsel was. It's standard procedure for the counsel and commissioner to discuss this sort of thing before a Congressional hearing. Shulman's term as head of the IRS ended at the end of last year and he was appointed by President Bush. But Obama has yet to announce a replacement." via Mark Levin twitter
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Ed. note: If anything a Bush appointee would be more aggressive against the Tea Party than a democrat one. The Bush crowd despises the Tea Party with a white hot hatred. The Tea Party was originally formed to stop rampant corruption of our government by both political parties (see below). Obviously such corruption threatens the existence of the country.
The man who sent tea bags to the Beltway says the Tea Party has gone off track:
10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," Karl Denninger, market-ticker.org
(Transcript of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan 10/19/10. Video at link)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
Then look at what's over at TeaParty.Org: you'll find the usual pablum. Guns, gays, God.
Heh, I like talking about Guns, Gays and God too. Let's talk about all of them within the context of The Constitution, which is what the Tea Party was supposed to be about....
"The Tea Party was initiated as a political protest against the unlawful and in fact unconstitutional usurpation of power from the Congress and The People in the form of extortion-led bailouts of enterprises that had engaged in acts that I, and many others, believe were at least civilly actionable and in many cases crossed the line into criminal activity.
This indictment is not limited to the nation's large banks, although it certainly starts there. The corruption of our economic and monetary systems runs the gamut from Fannie and Freddie through their ties to Congress (including literal sexual encounters in some cases), banking interests selling trash securities to everyone from pension funds on down, judges who don't judge but rather protect monied interests on Wall Street,
The Federal Reserve intentionally debasing our currency and monetizing government debt, government spending that is running 40% above revenues and much more.
In short, The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers.
Not one word about throwing judges such as this one:
in the dock - although that, ladies and gentlemen, is a statement of felony judicial corruption. If you as an investor run into trouble with a commodity or futures trade and sue you will not get your day in court - a literal "green light" to rob the people by the big banks with official judicial sanction. And you wonder how Hillary Clinton managed to "win" in her Cattle Futures trades...
Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
the Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!
You want me to support The Tea Party as it is currently constituted?
Do all of the above, do it now, and apologize for attempting to perpetuate the financial******of this nation.
Publicize the following as your LEAD:
STOP THE LOOTING AND START PROSECUTING
And finally, one more:
ALL FIVE OF THE LARGEST BANKS ARE RESOLVED AS OUR FIRST ACT IN CONGRESS.
They caused it, they pay for it. Period."...
.
The focus will now become whether or not IRS commissioner Doug Shulman knew about the questions when he testified that no Tea Party groups were being targeted for unfair scrutiny in front of Congress in 2012. The report doesn't say whether or not Shulman was informed about the Tea Party questioning, but it does show the IRS's chief counsel was. It's standard procedure for the counsel and commissioner to discuss this sort of thing before a Congressional hearing. Shulman's term as head of the IRS ended at the end of last year and he was appointed by President Bush. But Obama has yet to announce a replacement." via Mark Levin twitter
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Ed. note: If anything a Bush appointee would be more aggressive against the Tea Party than a democrat one. The Bush crowd despises the Tea Party with a white hot hatred. The Tea Party was originally formed to stop rampant corruption of our government by both political parties (see below). Obviously such corruption threatens the existence of the country.
The man who sent tea bags to the Beltway says the Tea Party has gone off track:
10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," Karl Denninger, market-ticker.org
(Transcript of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan 10/19/10. Video at link)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
Then look at what's over at TeaParty.Org: you'll find the usual pablum. Guns, gays, God.
Heh, I like talking about Guns, Gays and God too. Let's talk about all of them within the context of The Constitution, which is what the Tea Party was supposed to be about....
"The Tea Party was initiated as a political protest against the unlawful and in fact unconstitutional usurpation of power from the Congress and The People in the form of extortion-led bailouts of enterprises that had engaged in acts that I, and many others, believe were at least civilly actionable and in many cases crossed the line into criminal activity.
This indictment is not limited to the nation's large banks, although it certainly starts there. The corruption of our economic and monetary systems runs the gamut from Fannie and Freddie through their ties to Congress (including literal sexual encounters in some cases), banking interests selling trash securities to everyone from pension funds on down, judges who don't judge but rather protect monied interests on Wall Street,
The Federal Reserve intentionally debasing our currency and monetizing government debt, government spending that is running 40% above revenues and much more.
In short, The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers.
Not one word about throwing judges such as this one:
in the dock - although that, ladies and gentlemen, is a statement of felony judicial corruption. If you as an investor run into trouble with a commodity or futures trade and sue you will not get your day in court - a literal "green light" to rob the people by the big banks with official judicial sanction. And you wonder how Hillary Clinton managed to "win" in her Cattle Futures trades...
Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
the Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!
You want me to support The Tea Party as it is currently constituted?
Do all of the above, do it now, and apologize for attempting to perpetuate the financial******of this nation.
Publicize the following as your LEAD:
STOP THE LOOTING AND START PROSECUTING
And finally, one more:
ALL FIVE OF THE LARGEST BANKS ARE RESOLVED AS OUR FIRST ACT IN CONGRESS.
They caused it, they pay for it. Period."...
.
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