White House Counsel Robert Bauer: Architect of IRS Abuse? (Gov. Palin especially singled out)

PJ Media ^ | June 4, 2013 | J. Christian Adams

[2ndDivisionVet]

When the FBI finally fires up its criminal investigation of the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, there is one person the special agent in charge better be sure to interview — former White House Counsel Robert Bauer. The FBI may discover the whole IRS mess leads through the land of campaign finance “reform” and an obsession with speech regulation, an obsession shared by Bauer.

Any criminal investigation identifies for further scrutiny those with motive, opportunity, and means, and Bauer deserves no quarter from FBI investigators on those three counts.

The Crimes

Without any doubt, crimes were committed by IRS employees, not the least of which was the fact that IRS employees disclosed confidential information from IRS forms to the political enemies of the groups seeking tax-exempt status.

For example, Cindy Thomas, the Cincinnati unit manager for exempt organizations at the IRS, illegally released the tax applications of nine separate conservative organizations to the left-wing group ProPublica. The IRS claims that Thomas’ illegal release of private tax information was an “accident,” but the excuse is absurd.

Thomas wasn’t the only IRS employee leaking the tax information of conservative groups to their enemies. Pro-marriage groups found their confidential information in the hands of gay marriage advocacy organizations.

The FBI can start by finding out whether Thomas and her fellow IRS travelers in fact released the private information.....

[penelopesire]

Dunn’s obsessive lip licking is likely caused by opiate prescription drug abuse...dry mouth. Seen it before in people addicted. Just sayin. Obama and all of his Marxist minions are very dangerous people on so many levels...they are spiritually and morally bankrupt.

[Ann Archy]

They are EVIL and DANGEROUS!!

[bert]

My concern is the FBI. It is still American or has it been Holderized to the point of being ineffective?

I fear there there is no law enforcement because there is no longer any law. The law has been abandoned except as a cudgel to smite enemies.

[ncfool]

Robert Bauer is a dirty team player. His history is exactly the same background it takes to pull off the dismantaling of the Tea Party. many threads on it last week just hit this link and you can see more information on this scum bag.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bobbauer/index

[ncfool]

Keep the name Robert Bauer up front.

It came down thru Bob Bauer the White House General Consul who met with Shulman over 118 times at the Whitehouse.
Then Shulman assigned it to Lerner. This scandal goes all the way back up to the top in the White House.

Read below on Bauer.

I hope that the GOP can tie this goon back to Shulman who visited the White House 122 times but couldn’t remember anything.

Read more about Bauer below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-bauer/gIQAgz4w6O_topic.html

Outgoing White House Counsel (December 2009 to June 2011)

Why He Matters
Bauer is one of the nation’s pre-eminent experts on election and campaign finance law, and his views are enormously influential with Democrats.

Married to Anita Dunn.

Another article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/11/28/democratic-lawyerobama-advisor-bob-bauer-to-teach-at-nyu/

Bauer is returning to New York University Law School this spring to teach a seminar on political reform.
The course will encompass campaign finance, lobbying laws, voting rights and more—topics Mr. Bauer has had ample exposure to during his 30 years of practice as a lawyer, which include stints working for political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee.

It gets better.

Read the end of this paragraph.
During his time on the campaign trail, Mr. Bauer led challenges to new voter laws backed by Republicans—including suing the state of Ohio in July—and lobbied the Federal Election Commission to allow individuals to text in donations (as did his Romney counterpart). Mr. Bauer also sought to compel the well-funded Republican advocacy group Crossroads GPS to disclose the names of its donors, citing millions of dollars the group has spent on campaign ads attacking Democrats.

This is the guy who pulled the chains with the IRS on behalf of the White House.

You can’t make this stuff up. On May 21, 2013 Obama appointed Bob Bauer to A FEC Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/presidential-commission-on-election-administration-launched-208362001.html

LOOKING TO STEAL MORE VOTES IN THE FUTURE.

Commission to identify practical, real-world solutions to long voter lines, access to polls.

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Presidential Commission on Election Administration was officially launched today, following President Barack Obama ‘s State of the Union pledge to identify non-partisan ways to shorten lines at polling places, promote the efficient conduct of elections, and provide better access to the polls for all voters.

The 10-member Commission will submit a final report to the President within six months of its first public meeting, which is expected to be held in Washington in June. Headed by Co-Chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg , the Commissioners are experts in election administration, policy and procedures, or leaders from customer service-oriented businesses and industry.

“The President’s expectation is clear,” said Co-Chair Bob Bauer , who served President Obama as White House counsel from December 2009 until 2011, and as General Counsel to the President’s re-election committee and to the Democratic National Committee. “The Commission is charged with developing recommendations based on the best information available for administrative practices that afford voters the opportunity to cast ballots without undue delay and improve their overall experience.”

” The Commission was created by Executive Order 13644, Establishment of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. Commissioners were appointed by the President.:

Robert F. Bauer , Co-Chair and Member – Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Both the FBI and IRS were thought to be trustworthy, dependable, fair and of the highest integrity. That is, they were until the Obama Administration took over.

I can't speak to the IRS, but as to the FBI?

H. Paul Rico & Zip Connolly say hello - Rico from beyond the grave and Connolly from the clink.

And that was well before Obama.

Read up on Whitey Bulger if you think the FBI was "trustworthy, dependable, fair, and of the highest integrity" . . .

[opentalk]

Obama Aims at Election Laws thread 2011, wsj

… The effort,led by former White House counsel Robert Bauer,prompted the suspension of an Ohio law limiting early voting. Campaign officials produced educational materials to counter a Wisconsin law that requires voters to produce photo I.D.s—but disallows those used by Wisconsin colleges.

By this spring,the Obama re-election campaign will mount what Mr. Bauer called an unprecedented "voter protection" effort,fielding thousands of volunteers in battleground states

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Glenn Beck today talked about one of the Tea Party groups targeted by IRS. (great witness in yesterdays hearing). They were focusing on trying to get dead people off the voter lists.

[opentalk]

Robert Bauer, the chief of the political law group at Perkins Coie, the Seattle law firm hired by the White House to defend Obama in court cases challenging his "natural born" citizenship status in the United States and thus, his eligibility under the U.S. Constitution to be president

A biography for Bauer posted on the Perkins Coie website indicates he was general counsel to the Democratic National Committee during the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry and that he served as counsel to Sen. Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader in the impeachment trial proceedings of President Bill Clinton.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Bauer functioned as an "attack lawyer," threatening with FEC complaints groups wanting to run anti-Obama television ads

Bauer is Obama's chief "birther" lawyer. His job is to keep Obama's personal artifacts hidden from the American People. He has demonstrated that he will use all available means to do this.

Mr. Bauer’s wife is none other than Anita Dunn, Obama's Communication’s Director, whose affection for Chairman Mao is documented …link

[Ann Archy]

Sooooo, HE’S the BIRTHER Lawyer!!! Obama DONORS have paid him MILLIONS!! He AND his wife are EVIL PIT BULLS!

[hal ogen]

nobama (and his commie minions) hate you, hate your Freedom, hate your success, hate your individual initiative, hate your family, hates ethics and morals, hate Free & Constitutional America, hate Americans, hate the Constitution and hate the Bill of Rights. nobama is a hate crime foisted upon America. nobama is the Destroyer . Everything nobama does is intentional. God help us all.

[Ann Archy]

Hate for God, especially Christianity and JEALOUSY is what Democrats THRIVE on!

[brydic1]

We have a government that uses the IRS to begin the persecution of American citizens who are opposed to policies of the government. The IRS then refers this unreconstructed conservative to other agencies which proceeds with visits to the taxpayer by agents of the FBI to investigate the conservative taxpayer for possible terrorist activity, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agency to check on the taxpayers firearms, then the EPA for possible violations of some environmental regulation and then OSHA for possible violations of workplace regulations. The IRS has become the Grand Inquisition, the Gestapo, the NKVD and the Stasi all combined. Any one believing that we live in a free country should better reconsider the facts.

[Kaslin]

[wastoute]

I agree with Anita Dunn on this much, “All power comes from the barrel of a gun.” MolonLabe.

[meadsjn]

Romanian Revolution of 1989

The Revolution marked the end of the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Street protests and violence in several Romanian cities over the course of roughly a week led the Romanian dictator to abandon power and flee Bucharest with his wife, Deputy Prime Minister Elena Ceauşescu. Captured in Târgovişte, they were tried in a show trial by a military tribunal on charges of genocide, damage to the national economy and abuse of power to execute military actions against the Romanian people. They were found guilty of all charges, and immediately executed on Christmas Day 1989, becoming the last persons ever to be condemned to death and executed in Romania.

Trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu

[Seizethecarp]

Robert Bauer, Perkins Coie eligibility-related ping?

I believe that orchestration of both IRS suppression of the Tea Party called out by Adams and court suppression of BC challenges were likely led by Bauer at the White House.

[M Kehoe]

Valerie Jarrett.

5.56mm

[devolve]

defcon 2

blue glasers

[Mamzelle]

How about a photo of the despicable Cindy?

[PatriotLady77]

More so or equal to Billy & Hilly Clinton. If they are worse than those 2, THAT’S FREAKING SCARY!!!