Bump
“The report did not find evidence that the actions were motivated by partisan interests. IRS officials told investigators they did not consult anyone outside the agency about the screening.”
Summed up in two words. Bravo Sierra!
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
“not find evidence that the actions were motivated by partisan interests.”
Right, it was just a coincidence. Tell me another. First order of business should be to find out who sent those tax exempt applications to the outside group...that alone is a felony disclosure. Check to see which party they donated money to. I bet my last dollar, they donated to dems or worked directly for people who did.
Lois learner the IRS exempt person in charge is up to her eye balls here too....she was the one who poo pooed this from the get go.
There used to be an Inspection Service in the IRS, it was moved under the treasury IG some years ago. That is the group which should be doing this criminal probe.
“Also Tuesday, a widely anticipated report by the IRS’s watchdog described the agency’s tax-exempt unit — where the screening of conservative groups occurred — as a bureaucratic mess, with some employees ignorant about tax laws, defiant of their supervisors and blind to the appearance of impropriety. “
Like we needed an investigation to find that out.
What a laugh.
The Perps investigate themselves.
Predetermined verdict.
If the screening criteria weren’t motivated by politics, then some Liberal and Progressive groups would have been caught up in this as well. Were they?
The IRS collected the data—more than required by law—and gave the information illegally to leftist groups. The IG report did not cover that aspect of the IRS activities.
DNC on Jim Crow Laws; “Inappropriate criteria used...”
An infinitely bigger issue is the illegal disclosure of the information the IRS coerced from the would-be nonprofits to their ideological and political rivals, and the misuse of that information by those outside organizations to smear the applicant organizations and their donors, large and small. Even though I'm not a lawyer, I can see how that must have broken many - perhaps dozens - of laws.
The Federal Government has hundreds of pages of regulations about the handling of "PII" or "Personally Identifiable Information," and anyone who handles such information is briefed in detail about the great care with which its confidentiality must be protected.
That sort of briefing is given to anyone who works in any capacity in the government. I would imagine that the rules, and the briefings, and the sign-offs, and the CAC certificates, and the qualifications required within the IRS would be much more strict. It is inconceivable that anyone working there - except perhaps custodial people, electricians and plumbers and the like - would not be aware of these laws and regulations.
The only way they would break these laws - and surely they did break them - would be at the express instruction of their superiors.
That's the real problem, as anyone with an above-IQ temperature surely knows. Including the "inspector general."
I wonder if the "inspector general" wears one of those spiffy Joyclyn-Elders-type uniforms at work.
Bush simply used an inappropriate criteria for defining WMDS.
I am sure Holder will be impartial.
hahahahahahaha
lololololololol
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It’s comin’ FReepers. If you ain’t ready it’s your own fault.
with some employees ignorant about tax laws, defiant of their supervisors and blind to the appearance of impropriety.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Tsk, tsk! Who in all hail decided to hire Acorn Community Workers at the IRS???
DHS under Napolitano is the same. Wait until THAT shoe drops.
Impeachment of Obama and half his cabinet is in order as Obama fascism attempts to impose Hopey Changey on the Constitution of the USA.
it’s nobody’s fault, just a misapplication of rules by people who were never trained properly. let’s sink a few million dollars into training on how not to get caught.