Posted on 05/17/2013 8:53:55 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
As Congressional Democrats scurry for cover in the wake of the growing scandal surrounding IRS harassment of tea party and conservative groups, President Obama announced on Wednesday that acting IRS chief, Steven T. Miller would resign. As with Benghazi and seemingly everything else these days, Obama claims to have known nothing about it. Too much time at the golf course no doubt.
But the dam is bursting on this story. Every day the number of affected groups grows as more and more is uncovered. Today it was revealed for example that the decades-old Leadership Institute was audited in 2011. To defend itself, the institute had to shell out over $50,000 in legal fees. Run by stalwart Reagan friend Morton Blackwell, the LI has an impeccable reputation. Of course the IRS found nothing.
During the recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker in 2012, a group called “Verify the Recall” hastily formed to check the 1 million recall petitions turned in at the last minute by union organizers. Working with True the Vote, this organization evaluated every one of those petitions in little more than a month. Other groups, including this writer, publicized their herculean efforts.
The IRS apparently didn’t like this. The North East Tarrant Texas Tea Party (NETTTP) never told the IRS they were working on the recall, yet IRS questioned them about their relationship with VTR. True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrect said, “There is no explaining this away. It is a reprehensible abuse of power by the IRS to ask one organization for information about the activities of a separate organization while holding their non-profit status hostage.”
(Excerpt) Read more at trevorloudon.com ...
Woops! “incovered” should be “uncovered”
OUTSTANDING article by Trevor! Thanks for posting.
TREASON - “acting”/appointed/entrenched unaccountable bureaucrats (socialists) elevating to TOTALITARIAN tactics for the powers that be when the time is right.
TREASON - continuous, PRE-MEDITATED, agenda-driven, in-your-face, media-complicit, AGENCY-ABETTED, REPRESENTATIVE-DIRECTED, ongoing...
TREASON like this republic has never seen before.
This guy resigned as “Acting Commissioner”, but in his testimony today, he also held a dual hat as “Deputy Commissioner”. It isn’t clear to me whether or not, he will still be there as “Deputy Commissioner”. Judging from his lack of memory today, I suspect he is trying to protect his “Deputy Job”.
Outstanding article linking and outlining connections between IRS scandal and attempts to intimidate the groups attempting to Verify the Recall against Scott Walker last year.
We always knew something was fishy. My question still stands: why did the GOPe try to discourage the efforts of the VTR and True the Vote? Ignorance? Jelousy? Cold Feet? I worked on both efforts. The GOPe effort was a joke.
Even though we did not prove that the recall petitions were invalid to the satisfaction of the GAB, the information gleaned has proven invaluable. We replaced a partisan judge in Ozaukee County, for insance.
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