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Connecting the Dots in the IRS Scandal
Wall Street Journal ^ | 02/26/2014 | Bradley A. Smith

Posted on 02/27/2014 10:31:16 AM PST by safetysign

The mainstream press has justified its lack of coverage over the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups because there's been no "smoking gun" tying President Obama to the scandal. This betrays a remarkable, if not willful, failure to understand abuse of power. The political pressure on the IRS to delay or deny tax-exempt status for conservative groups has been obvious to anyone who cares to open his eyes. It did not come from a direct order from the White House, but it didn't have to.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bradleysmith; conservatives; irs; irsscandals; irsteapartyscandal; targeting; teaparty
We need to see the Republicans get a set of balls and put some creeps in the slammer.
1 posted on 02/27/2014 10:31:16 AM PST by safetysign
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To: safetysign

This betrays a remarkable, if not willful, failure to understand abuse of power.


yeh- remember when the criminal liberal media chased the non-existent “Downing Street Memo” and pushed it as true, though its yet to be found???


2 posted on 02/27/2014 10:35:29 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: safetysign

G.O.P. = Give Obama Power


3 posted on 02/27/2014 10:39:32 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: safetysign

The mainstream press justify their lack of coverage of the Democrats by looking out the window at that BMW the Democrats bought for them.


4 posted on 02/27/2014 10:43:09 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: safetysign
The mainstream press has justified its lack of coverage over the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups because there's been no "smoking gun" tying President Obama to the scandal.

There is no "smoking gun" because the MSM doesn't want to look for one.

These things don't just pop up out of thin air. The smoking gun is always being hidden. It used to be that a reporter investigated these things, and through diligent pursuit of the story they find the smoking gun.

But not today. Today's MSM buries the smoking gun. They don't expose it.

-PJ

5 posted on 02/27/2014 10:44:40 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I really am inclined to go with the thesis that Obama is a figurehead. The same boss or bosses that are telling him what to do, are behind these IRS shenanigans. That’s why Slow Joe was acceptable to the Democrats as a veep. Should Obama bid this mortal coil farewell prematurely, or get impeached and convicted, Slow Joe would do just as well as Barack Obama to be said figurehead.


6 posted on 02/27/2014 10:47:05 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: safetysign

Lois Lerner wants immunity.
Lois Lerner wants immunity.
Lois Lerner wants immunity.
Lois Lerner wants immunity.
Lois Lerner wants immunity.

WHY??????????????????????????????????

Give it to her. Put her in Witness Protection before they find her in Marcy Park.


7 posted on 02/27/2014 10:48:54 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: safetysign
 photo LOISLERNERcopy_zps0e4fc06e.jpg

“Pssst, Lois. You don't haf to tell zeez swine anything. Chust remember zot Herr Obama und I haf your beck.” But if you screw up, bitte remember zot ve know vere you lif!”


8 posted on 02/27/2014 10:50:20 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Dick Bachert

Oh, lookie there. It’s Heinrich coaching her. ;-D


9 posted on 02/27/2014 11:04:26 AM PST by GingisK
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To: safetysign

Nothing will happen. The Republican Party won’t do anything about it.


10 posted on 02/27/2014 11:26:35 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I agree that 0bama is a figurehead. But he is, at the same time, a true believer in “the struggle.” In other words, he is all for the downfall of America and the implementation of a Soviet-style state. I also think he sincerely believes that he is the mastermind of all of this. In reality, though, he is a childish dilettante dictator, who is being fed the lines he is to say. His huge ego and paper-thin skin are easily manipulated by his real masters. For that, I’m thinking Ayers, Axelrod and Jarrett, primarily.


11 posted on 02/27/2014 11:26:54 AM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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Oh, that he yields willingly, there is not a doubt.

They found an empty guy and filled him up with marxist nonsense.

Still... I’m not sold that the communication to the IRS about new policy leanings had to go through Obama at all.


12 posted on 02/27/2014 11:30:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: safetysign

The unfortunate reality is that the criminals got away with their crimes. Turkey-neck lerner lied to protect her boss.

The public doesn’t care. It’s more interested in what justin beeber did than in restoring justice to the USA.


13 posted on 02/27/2014 11:39:12 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: safetysign

HOORAY Bradley A. Smith! OUTSTANDING article connecting the dots, and naming names in the timeline of the gestapo arm of the U.S.A. - United Socialists of America.

It’s time for whistleblowers to step up./sarcasm The gestapo has its own program (its not what you might think) with rewards...

http://www.irs.gov/uac/History-of-the-Whilstleblower-Informant-Program

and goes after other “whistleblowers” exposing government ineptitude, corruption, and fraud…

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/politics/whistleblower-irs/

IRS - long history of scandal…

http://theweek.com/article/index/245319/the-irss-long-history-of-scandal

DISMANTLE socialist/totalitarian agencies.


14 posted on 02/27/2014 11:44:01 AM PST by PGalt
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To: PGalt

BTTT


15 posted on 02/27/2014 11:51:37 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The IRS orders have the fingerprints of Axelrod’s heavy hands all over them. At least, that’s where they started. It’s continuing now because of bureaucratic inertia; it’s become “the way things are done.”


16 posted on 02/27/2014 12:02:32 PM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: GingisK

Yes, they have him on retainer for ALL future IRS appearances.


17 posted on 02/27/2014 1:04:34 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: PGalt

BTTT


18 posted on 03/05/2014 3:51:46 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Dick Bachert
Looks like Lois got her face ironed/stretched since her previous appearance on the stand...

Then:

Today:

Oh, and she added an American flag to her wardrobe.

19 posted on 03/05/2014 4:00:32 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: TurboZamboni

Thanks much for the BTTTs TurboZamboni. Back at ya, FRiend.


20 posted on 03/05/2014 5:26:11 PM PST by PGalt
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