Posted on 05/15/2013 11:06:23 PM PDT by GVnana
Documents: IRS letters harassing conservative groups came from Washington, DC headquarters and from California offices, despite Inspector General's focus on Cincinnati employees
Tax agency has admitted targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations for special, politically motivated scrutiny
IRS inspector general focused on wrongdoing in Cincinnati, Ohio office and ignored abusive letters coming from other cities
MailOnline found letters from IRS's Washington, D.C. headquarters, and from IRS offices in two southern California cities
The American Center on Law and Justice is threatening to sue the IRS if 27 tea party groups aren't granted tax-exempt statuses by Friday
Letters from the IRS to tea party-related organizations in Oklahoma City and Albuquerque, New Mexico show that IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and two satellite offices in California, were directly involved with sending harassing letters to conservative organizations that sought tax-exempt status.
The IRS has acknowledged only the involvement of its Exempt Organizations office in Cincinnati, Ohio, which typically makes most decisions about granting or denying tax-exempt status to non-profit organizations.
And Wednesday afternoon, CNN cited a congressional source in reporting that the acting IRS Commissioner – whom President Obama fired later in the day – had identified two 'rogue' employees, both in Cincinnati, whom he thought were responsible for targeting right-wing organizations with tactics that were not applied to left-wing or non-political groups.
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Don't even think for a second that there was also the GOPe in that line as well. I would say the entire thing was hatched on the assumption that the GOPe wouldn't say a thing in protest, which they did not until this thing started to become a club to beat up Democrats with.
When some of the 'rats start to sing, they will also implicate the likes of McCain, Grahmnesty, and their fellow travelers like the ones who dined with Obama during Paul's filibuster.
This IRS crap came from the top.
1. Simultaneous, lone-wolf “investigations” using the same language begs plausibility.
2. If it were underlings acting on their own, they would have been fired, and that would have been announced during the formal apology. Firing them would have shown true action and would have made it possible for the press to ignore the story going forward. The fact that they weren’t fired, means that they can’t be fired. Why? Because people who still have a job have a reason to be quiet, while people who are fired for “just following orders” tend to tell anyone who will listen.
re. the “timeline” in your link
Per wiki, “Strategic communication management could be defined as the systematic planning and realization of information flow, communication, media development and image care in a long-term horizon. It conveys deliberate message(s) through the most suitable media to the designated audience(s) at the appropriate time to contribute to and achieve the desired long-term effect. Communication management is process creation. It has to bring three factors into balance: the message(s), the media channel(s) and the audience(s). . .”
Denis McDonough was the head of Strategic Communications for Zer0 then. This guy, Brennan and Tom Donilon are ALL bad news.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/06/sipsey-street-exclusive-strategic_17.html
It might. But the question is “How will the politics play out if prosecuted?”
And who will file chargers? The DOJ?
We need to have realistic expectations.
When all that you do is lie... you cannot keep one lie straight and the entire house of cards will fall.
LLS
Fall Guys.
Absolutely AGREE with you!
My favorite graphic on the scandal.
Tyranny prevails.
Jail is too lenient.
This goes to the very top of the IRS and pervades every division. A special prosecutor MUST be appointed. The administration cannot fairly investigate itself.
Any federal prosecutor should be able to file charges. Zero will pardon if still In office seems a bigger problem. Statute of limitation?
It’s not just the irs
Guess my dot connecting was heading in the right direction.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3019611/posts?page=19#19
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3019611/posts?page=29#29
*See my additions to timeline.
Timeline Shows Influence of Soros-Funded Groups
*May 13, 2008: IRS closed investigation into a speech made by then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at Chicago’s United Church of Christ. WilmerHale announced it would defend the United Church of Christ on a pro-bono basis. Wilkins and a colleague at the law firm were placed in charge of the high-profile case.
*April 17, 2009: Obama Nominates William J. Wilkins to be IRS Chief Counsel.
March 1-17, 2010: First ten reported cases of targeting by the IRS against groups that had ties to the “tea party or similar organizations.”
Sept. 16, 2010: TIME article “The New GOP Money Stampede” quotes Wertheimer;
Sept. 23, 2010: DISCLOSE act, a campaign finance disclosure act specifically targeting a Tea Party group, in the writing of which the CLC participated, fails in the Senate;
Sept. 28, 2010: Democrat Senator Max Baucus writes a letter to the IRS, citing the TIME article;
Oct. 5, 2010: Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center petition IRS, Wertheimer writes HuffPo article;
Oct. 7, 2010: Legal brief from HoltzmanVogel PLLC against the Democracy 21 petition;
Oct. 14, 2010: Dick Durbin asks IRS to investigate American Crossroads, HuffPo coverage;
June 27, 2011: Second petition to the IRS by CLC and Democracy 21;
June 29, 2011: IRS senior agency official Lois Lerner briefed on efforts to target groups which “criticize how the country is being run”;
*Aug. 4, 2011: Meeting in which the IRS’s chief counsel appears to have conferred with agency officials to discuss the activities of a team in the Cincinnati field office that had been subjecting applications for tax-exempt status from Tea Party and other conservative groups to a greater degree of review than those from other organizations. (Under IRS rules, the agency’s chief counsel, William J. Wilkins, reports to the Treasury Department’s general counsel, and investigators want to determine if Wilkins took the issue out of the independent IRS to other parts of the Obama administration.)
Sept. 28, 2011: CLC and Democracy 21 petition IRS again, this time about four conservative groups;
Oct. 31, 2011: CPI “investigation”;
Nov. 18, 2011: Mother Jones article;
Nov. 21, 2011: Alternet repost of Mother Jones Article;
Dec. 29, 2011: New York Times oped;
Jan. 15, 2012: IRS targeted groups focusing on limiting government or educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights;
February 2012: First articles promoting this issue appear in New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times
$6.1 Million in Soros Funding Since 2000
*July 17, 2012: Lois G. Lerner responded with a three-paragraph letter (to watch dog groups) suggesting that the agency might consider reviewing its rules.
*Summer 2012: George W. Madison, General Counsel, US Department of the Treasury, steps down.
*April 30, 2013: Acting Treasury General Counsel Christopher Meade confirmed. From 2005 to 2010, Meade was a partner with the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Center for Public Integrity: $2,716,328
Campaign Legal Center: $677,000
Media Consortium: $675,000
Mother Jones: $485,000
Democracy 21: $365,000
ProPublica: $300,000
Alternet: $285,000
Human Rights Campaign: $600,000
I know a former US attorney. He talks about cases that no one would touch, because you can't pick up a turd from the clean end. This is one of them.
Let's be careful. It is only the agencies and departments on this list that were involved.
Here's the link:
On the June 29 2011 briefing of Lois L. Who did the briefing? To her or from her? Does she wear orange well?
Any connection to Soros or the union?
Am on cell. Need to get computer up and running to do research ;)
oopsie!
Those low-level Cincinatti employees musta used the wrong address.
Yeah,... that’s the ticket!
There was no there THERE
The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, show that on June 29, 2011, IRS staffers held a briefing with senior agency official Lois G. Lerner...
Holding my breath to read the articles and opeds condemning the IRS in the LA Slimes, Gay Rhonicle, SacBEES, and other left wing Cali fish wraps. (Sarcasm is now off!)
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