Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Tuesday's I.R.S. Scandal Roundup
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Leaders on the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee are escalating the battle over the investigation into the IRS tea
party targeting scandal. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the panel's top
Democrat, released hundreds of pages of transcripts ...
Hundreds of pages of transcribed interviews reveal that IRS
employees in Washington were involved at an early stage in the improper
targeting of Tea Party groups — but at least so far the trail stops well short
of the White House. Based on interviews with two ...
IRS Official:
Washington Was Not Involved In Targeting Of Conservative Groups
Huffington Post
Republican and Democratic committee staffers interviewed an
IRS official on June 6 about the agency's decision to scrutinize a Tea Party
group's application for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status. The official, who
identified himself as "a conservative Republican" ...
IRS Scandal: Is
Partisanship Overshadowing Facts?
WIBW
Five weeks after the IRS acknowledged that at least one of
its offices put undue scrutiny on conservative groups seeking tax-exempt
status, lawmakers are still sorting out the facts. That, however, hasn't
stopped lawmakers from forming partisan complaints ...
IRS scandal brings
out more charges of political audits
Merced Sun-Star
WASHINGTON — If reports of political targeting of
conservatives by the Internal Revenue Service shocked the nation, they didn't
seem that surprising to many other groups who experienced problems with the tax
agency in the past. Liberal groups such as ...
Moving a Washington
scandal out of town
Washington Times
The left is doing all that it can to keep the focus off
Washington in this scandal. The latest attempt came just days ago when Rep.
Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, one of the top House Democrats leading the
congressional probe of the IRS, made the ...
Kentucky's Sen. Rand
Paul to speak at anti-IRS rally Wednesday
Examiner.com
Kentucky's junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, will
address the assembly, along with Texas Senator Ted Cruz and several other
members of Congress. Glenn Beck and other conservative leaders will also speak;
calling attention to the IRS scandal, where ...
IRS official: Tea
Party groups set aside for consistency's sake
The Hill
... a manager in the Cincinnati office at the center of the
targeting scandal. Shafer also told investigators that there were no political
considerations when the first Tea Party case was brought to him by an IRS
reviewer for a second look, and when he decided to ...
The Real Cincinnati
IRS Scandal
IREHR Update News Site
One of the featured speakers at the Tea Party Patriots
“Audit the IRS” event in Washington DC on June 19 is Justin Binik-Thomas. The
Ohio resident became a sudden celebrity in Tea Party circles after it was
revealed that the IRS had asked a Tea Party group ...
The game Issa loves
to play
MSNBC (blog)
The House Oversight Committee dispatched investigators to
interview IRS employees in Cincinnati several weeks ago as part of the
investigation into agency scrutiny of groups seeking tax-exempt status, and
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has seen the ... Indeed, as the
controversy began to fade, and it became clearer that the political scandal was
evaporating, Issa released carefully edited portions of the transcripts --
parts that Issa liked, without context -- in the hopes of fueling the
controversy. Now, as ...
Republicans Can't Say
That Obama Was Behind the IRS' Tea Party Campaign ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
After four weeks in the news, the IRS scandal is still the
tentpole of the "scandal-plagued Obama administration" story line.
Republicans have failed to prove that the White House ordered the IRS' nosy
questionnaires of Tea Party applicants for nonprofit status, ...
Problem larger than
IRS role
Philly.com
Sadder than that scandal is the realization that the IRS
isn't the only leg of government that is turning campaign finance requirements
into a joke. Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court have all failed to
adequately protect the public from the ...
Don Polson The way I
see it: Justice delayed, denied the right; left sails
Red Bluff Daily News
Writing in "The Real Scandals of the IRS" for the
Daily Beast, Megan McArdle wrote on May 14, "It's true that 501 (c) 4
organizations are supposed to promote social welfare', but these days, most
people have decided that the best way to promote social welfare ...
IRS scandal could
change rules for non-profits
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The scandal involving
non-profit organizations and the Internal Revenue Service could bring clarity
to rules governing non-profits, members of Congress say. Democrats and
Republicans differ on how regulations should be ...
Distrust in
Government Growing
Sunshine State News (blog)
Reports of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea
party and conservative groups have grown in volume and intensity over the past
month, and the number of Americans following stories about the IRS scandal is
now higher than ever. The poll shows ...
WARNING: Tea Party
Patriots DC Rally Aims at Immigration Reform (and the IRS)
IREHR Update News Site
Early into the "Audit the IRS" rally planning
conference call on June 13, Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin quickly
pivoted from the IRS to immigration reform “In addition to thisIRS scandal,
there's one other thing that we need to be paying attention to ...
Poll: 70 Percent
Believe IRS Targeting Started in Washington DC
Town Hall
When senior IRS officials first admitted to unfair and
inappropriate targeting of conservative groups, they claimed the targeting was
carried out by a few rogue agents in a Cincinnati office. Weeks and mounds of
evidence to the contrary later, a new Rasmussen ...
WATCHING THE WATCHERS
ABQ Journal
WHY PEOPLE are upset over the IRS scandal is not because of
taxes on the tea party group(s). It is because they give nonprofit status to
left-leaning groups. If people can think that it is OK, who will they target
next? This agency has too much power to bring ...
IRS Fires Another...
American Thinker
The memo does not say if Paz was fired, placed on
administrative leave or moved to another position inside the agency. Paz is
just one of many IRS agents at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal.
Holly Paz is being replaced as director of the rulings ...
Letter: Don't look to
Fox, Daystar for the truth
Gloucester Daily Times
To the editor: “You can listen to Fox and Daystar, and get
the truth.” So says one Gloucester Times reader (Letters, the Times Thursday,
June 13), who goes on to blame president Obama for what happened in Benghazi,
something called the IRS scandal, etc.
Minnesota Poll:
Minnesotans split on IRS scrutiny
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to
grant tax-exempt status to groups, listens on Capitol Hill Wednesday at the
start of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to
investigate the extra scrutiny the IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative
groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite,
Associated ...A majority also say the Obama administration should be more
forthcoming about the targeting scandal. A little more than half say the White
House is ...
Moving a Washington
Scandal Out of Town
American Center for Law and Justice
We have letters from Lois Lerner, director of exempt
organizations, and IRS attorney Carter Hull, and Cincinnati officials have said
they were micromanaged by D.C. officials. Now, there is a new admission from
another top IRS supervisor in Washington ...
Congress Weighs
Revising Nonprofit Rules After IRS Flap
Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) (blog)
... value of charitable deductions. Treasury Secretary Jacob
Lew said Monday that Daniel Werfel, the acting IRS commissioner, will make
recommendations next week on changes in the agency's policies arising from the
scandal, The Wall Street Journal writes.
Source: Google News
Monday, June 3, 2013
Ways and Mean Committee to Hold Tuesday Hearing on I.R.S. Scandal
Mesdames et Messieurs, où est le slush fund's spider hole?
Where & When
Ways and Means is to hold a hearings with organizations targeted by the I.R.S. for Their personal beliefs
1100 Longworth House Office Building at 10:00 AM
Hearing Focus
The hearing will focus on organizations that were targeted
as part of the Internal Revenue Service’s practice of discriminating against
applicants for tax-exempt status based on their personal beliefs.
Witness List
Mr. John Eastman, National Organization for
Marriage
Ms. Diane Belsom, Laurens County Tea Party
Ms. Becky Gerritson. Wetumpka Tea Party
Ms. Karen Kenny,San Fernando Valley Patriots
Mr. Kevin Kookogey,Founder and President, Linchpins of
Liberty
Daniel Werfel's First Personnel Decision as Acting IRS Commissioner
Guess who was the Campus Manager of this Austin, Texas campus of the F.B.I. and I.R.S. when a plane plowed into it three years ago?
It's the same guy Daniel Werfel just chose to replace
Lois Lerner as head of the tax-exempt division, Ken Corbin.
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“In naming Ken Corbin as acting director to replace Lois
Lerner, the administration has taken a strong step to address serious mistakes
made by the IRS Exempt Organization Division,” Representative Sander Levin of
Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a
statement. “This and further corrective action are vital in restoring the
confidence of the American people.”
Golly, I'm not so sure about that now, Senator.
David Plouffe: Obstructionist-in-Chief?
I think David Plouffe knows a lot about how to make money
fast. Plouffe received $100,000 for two speeches in Nigeria. And, he received
$50,000 for a speach in Baku, Azerbaijan. Plouffe certainly knows how to find and hunt for money, too. In 2008, Plouffe was President Obama Presidential Election Campaign Manager. Between 2011-2013, Plouffe was Senior Advisor to the President Obama during the 2012 election.
Dog whistle! Search warrants whistle!
Check out above a member of the sniffing-out money laundering vice squad.
This beagle can find Plouffe's household stash, if he's stupid
enough to have one.
I think Plouffe has got be in on this whole alleged, laundering business. He knows too much, being the closest adviser to the President since 2008. He should also be subpoenaed to appear before the House and Senate committees, to answer IRS scandal related questions.
Let him take the Fifth, if he wants to. We'll get to the truth the hard way or the easy way. It's really up to him. The harder he makes it, the longer he'll get to serve, if convicted of obstruction of justice.
Plouffe and President Obama should also not forget who holds the power of the purse for leverage to obtain "the truth and nothing but the truth" as well.
Follow along with: The David Plouffe Scandal.
let's put this investigation on the fast track, to gather up all the evidence and loose ends by August 1st, so that we can return after the summer break for the first day of trials to begin on September 4th, the day after Labor Day.
Oversight Hearing - Internal Revenue Service
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