Media Can't Ignore New Developments In IRS Scandal

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 7/31/13 | IBD editor

[Lakeshark]

IRS-Gate: From stonewalling Congress to Federal Election Commission collusion to harassment of already-tax-exempt conservative groups, the IRS scandal metastasizes. Someone high-up was clearly giving orders.

'Phony scandals," to use President Obama's term, should not generate near-daily news coverage from a media that would like nothing better than to see its dream president let off the hook. Yet everywhere you look comes another bolt of lightning keeping this Frankenstein monster "alive!":

• In addition to conservative organizations being ultra-scrutinized in applying for tax-exempt status, existing conservative groups like Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, around since 1979, and the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute, founded in 1993, were slammed with costly audits by Obama's IRS in the months before the 2012 election. **snip**

• National Review reports that on-leave IRS tax-exempt division head Lois Lerner was in e-mail contact with at least one attorney at the Federal Election Commission — where she used to work — to whom she apparently gave tax status information of a conservative group, the American Future Fund, before the FEC lawyer recommended "that the commission prosecute it for violations of campaign-finance law." The FEC also asked about the conservative American Issues Project.

• A House Ways and Means Committee analysis found conservative groups were asked three times as many questions by the IRS and had longer delays than left-wing groups seeking tax-exempt status.

• A June 26 letter made public last Thursday from the IRS inspector general to House Ways and Means Ranking Democrat Sander Levin of Michigan "makes it clear the inspector general believes Tea Party groups did have it worse than progressives," the left-leaning National Public Radio conceded.

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[Lakeshark]

Let's just say a looooong prison sentence for her and about a dozen others at the center of this scandal might be pretty effective.

Without people being punished for this, no one who isn't a radical leftie will ever be confident in the application of Bambicare.

[bert]

President Clinton will pardon them and they will be realeased.

There is no pardon or release if they are dead and no longer a societal threat

[I want the USA back]

In a sane country we would not have a marxist jihadi-sympathizing person in the white house.

[Lakeshark]

Bambi might do that, since he owes his election to them, if Clinton is ever elected, which I doubt, she wouldn't waste her political capital on that until she was leaving.

Asking for the death penalty in this issue is folly. Heck, we can't even kill mass murderers in most states.

[Lakeshark]

What would happen if EVERY GOP CongressCritter and Senator agreed to raise these subjects on EVERY appearance on EVERY show on EVERY channel of the MSM? Second question; what would be the top ten GOP excuses for NOT DOING THIS?

Most excellent points.

[livius]

I think death is a little extreme - although it’s true that because they didn’t put Hugo Chavez to death the first time - or even the second time - he tried to take over the VZ government, he came back again and was finally successful.

But the minions probably don’t need death, since a minion without his leader is pretty harmless. They need to hide behind power.

So I think Lerner could get off with, say, 30 years, by which time I believe she’ll be in her 90s. But you’re right: everybody involved in this was committing a crime, and if they get away unpunished or with a slap on the wrist, they’ll just try it again.

[The Public Eye]

Can’t. They accept your challenge.

[John 3_19-21]

[aimhigh]

Media Can't Ignore New Developments In IRS Scandal

Is the author too young to remember the rape charges against Clinton, or the Vince Foster murder? The media buried both stories.

[GeronL]

of course the media can ignore it, how naive can someone be?

[JaguarXKE]

Media Can't Ignore New Developments In IRS Scandal

Can and will.

[itsahoot]

In a sane country there would be demands for trials,

You mean waving around bunch of blacked out papers and whining about people refusing to testify aren't working? Who Knew?

Maybe a letter voicing their displeasure will get someones attention.

[OneWingedShark]

You mean waving around bunch of blacked out papers and whining about people refusing to testify aren't working?

Maybe a letter voicing their displeasure will get someones attention.

A strongly worded letter written on extra-large paper!
Maybe sent by Hans Blix? link.

[itsahoot]

Maybe sent by Hans Blix? link.