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Internal IRS Mandate: ‘Be on Lookout’ for ‘Organizations…Educating on Constitution, Bill of Rights’
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 12, 2013 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 05/13/2013 3:51:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A timeline of Internal Revenue Service activities that was developed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and provided to congressional staff indicates that early last year—as the nation was headed toward a presidential election—the IRS issued a “be on the lookout order” (BOLO) for officials in its “Determinations Unit” to ferret out for heightened scrutiny organizations applying for tax exempt status that were involved in educating Americans “on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

The inspector general’s timeline indicates that as early as March 2010 the IRS’ “Determinations Unit” had begun targeting for special scrutiny organizations that used in their tax-exempt applications the words “Tea Party” or “Patriots.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


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To: unixfox; Jim Robinson; onyx; DJ MacWoW

Probably why we are not tax exempt. To avoid some of that risk.


41 posted on 05/13/2013 5:46:09 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: dead

You got that right. The Lewinsky stuff was stupid.


42 posted on 05/13/2013 5:49:40 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Olog-hai

c. 1775, From the Office of His Majesty’s Exchequer:

‘Be on the Lookout for Organisations and Persons in the Colonies Involved In Educating the Publick on Taxation and their Rights as Free Subjects to the Crown’


43 posted on 05/13/2013 5:51:02 AM PDT by mikrofon (Patriot BUMP)
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To: Fishtalk
If you really want to get inside Hillary's head and discover how she thinks, check out Barbara Olsen's 2001 book, "Hell To Pay".

"The Final Days" is another book by Olsen, published just after she died on 9/11/01. Both books are hard hitting.

Hillary is way more evil than nobama, simply because she's been at it for much longer.

44 posted on 05/13/2013 5:55:51 AM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: RayChuang88

Obama even publicly joked about auditing people. Given it was happening at the time, was this a threat instead of a joke?


45 posted on 05/13/2013 5:59:53 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Olog-hai
I don't know about others here, but I can walk and chew gum at the same time. Benghazi and IRS should keep the flames fanned.

As for Obama’s complicity, it may just be a case of a Thomas Becket replay: “Will no one rid me of this pesky priest” or something like that. I don't really know and see no point in wild speculation. Of course, that makes it the “safe” scandal for the MSM.

46 posted on 05/13/2013 6:00:24 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Mouton

I’m mainly saying don’t expect your government to do it for you. This will tale protests court case etc to truly get it in the light of day!


47 posted on 05/13/2013 6:00:49 AM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: Big Giant Head

Ping

“by the beginning of the 2012 election year, the IRS had adjusted its “be on the lookout order” to more generally target groups that were involved in teaching people about the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

On Jan. 25, 2012, according to the inspector general’s timeline: “The criteria was revised as ‘political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement.’”


48 posted on 05/13/2013 6:01:16 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Candor7
FLASHBACK 2009: Obama Jokes About IRS Auditing Political Enemies

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/10/Flashback-2009-auditing-political-enemies

49 posted on 05/13/2013 6:01:46 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: listenhillary

The inherent admission is that the present government is an enemy of the Constitution,

and the Constitution is an enemy of the present government.


50 posted on 05/13/2013 6:03:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Olog-hai
Amazingly, Washington Post is covering it:

IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

(hat tip to Drudge)

51 posted on 05/13/2013 6:04:01 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Olog-hai

The government is watching us.

Mystery Aircraft Frightens Quincy Residents

By Bill Shields, WBZ-TV
May 9, 2013 11:59 PM

“Every night for nearly the last two weeks, residents have spotted a low-flying aircraft

“It’s frustrating, it really is,” says City Councillor Brian Palmucci. “I specifically asked, ‘Is it a law enforcement flight? Can we tell people that?’ He said, ‘No, we can’t tell you that.’ Then I asked that when folks call me can I at least tell them that it is something that they shouldn’t worry about, it’s something they shouldn’t be concerned with? He said, ‘I can’t tell you that.’”

Sources tell WBZ that the aircraft is not a drone, that it is manned. FAA spokesman Jim Peters would only say, “We have to be very careful this time” concerning information.”

Obviously when the federal government wants to keep something quiet, they keep it very quiet. In this case, they wouldn’t even say how long it would continue flying for. “

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/09/mystery-aircraft-frightens-quincy-residents/


52 posted on 05/13/2013 6:07:44 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: shalom aleichem
Using the IRS improperly was an article of impeachment for Nixon ...

From President Nixon's articles of impeachment:

1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.

53 posted on 05/13/2013 6:10:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Fishtalk
...why on earth would the IRS come out and admit this...voluntarily? Between this and Benghazi...

Michelle Bachmann is right on this: Lambasting the IRS gives the culpable media a big reason to deflect some of the public's attention away from Benghazi, which is what is happening. Overall so far, FReepers seem to be in some agreement that this tactic, which has worked many times in the past, won't work as well this time. Enough people are on the look-out for dog-wagging now.
54 posted on 05/13/2013 6:10:12 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Olog-hai

Anyone who thinks that this didn’t come from Obastard is a fool. This is EXACTLY the kind of dirty politics that he is used to in Chicago.


55 posted on 05/13/2013 6:14:26 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: PghBaldy

THATS a great article. Everyone should be reading it.

Obama is basically a little fascist peckerwood bully.He also is a coward, as proven by his conduct on Benghazi.

Obama has committed hate crimes by using the IRS to violate citizens Civil Rights, and he should be tried and punished by Congress.

Back in May 2009, Professor Glenn Reynolds:

“Just a joke about the power of the presidency. Made by Jay Leno it might have been funny. But as told by Mr. Obama, the actual president of the United States, it’s hard to see the humor. Surely he’s aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents. But that abuse generated a powerful backlash and with good reason. Should the IRS come to be seen as just a bunch of enforcers for whoever is in political power, the result would be an enormous loss of legitimacy for the tax system.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/10/Flashback-2009-auditing-political-enemies


56 posted on 05/13/2013 6:14:49 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Olog-hai

It is amazing how much this regime hates America..


57 posted on 05/13/2013 6:15:36 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Constitution? What Constitution?)
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To: Resettozero
No doubt that this was a part of the Friday bad news 'dump' to distract from Benghazi ...

However .... this was already going to come out this week in a report by the Treasury Dept.'s IG so they were preempting it too: The Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration is expected to release the results of a nearly yearlong investigation in the coming week. The AP obtained part of the draft report, which has been shared with congressional aides.

58 posted on 05/13/2013 6:16:57 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Olog-hai

0bamaNazis.


59 posted on 05/13/2013 6:17:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mandatory BB Guns for 10 Year Old Boys would solve most of America's problems.)
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To: MrB

And just wait until these corrupt political scumbags are in charge of our health care! I am so scared of what has happened to our country. I feel like we are living in the soon-to-be Soviet States of America. I struggle not to hate every person I know who voted for this Soviet administration. Hope they feel good.


60 posted on 05/13/2013 6:18:00 AM PDT by Phillyred
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