Posted on 06/24/2014 3:16:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A federal court has ordered the U.S. government to pay $50,000 to a conservative group that says confidential information from its tax returns about its donors was published on the website of a political opponent.
The board chairman of the National Organization for Marriage said Tuesday that his group still wants to learn more about how the information from a 2008 tax form emerged from the IRS. …
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$50,000. That will really hurt the US Government.
It’s a small smidgen of their petty cash fund.
Exactly. The people harmed get nothing, the people who caused the harm are safe - and the taxpayers pay and pay and pay.
Court assists Government in avoiding “Discovery”
This is a huge issue, not only because it directly links the IRS to suppressing conservation activism it also links to them to the defacement of Christians and conservative.
People have been seriously hurt, even losing their jobs because of the left’s fascist war on anyone supporting christian causes or views that they don’t agree with. Remember Foxfire?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/31/tech/web/firefox-okcupid-protest/index.html
The IRS is directly aiding and abiding theses political blackmailers. 50 thousand dollars doesn’t even begin to touch the kind of damage the IRS has done.
This is how liberals behave, they are fascist right down to their core. If they know your a conservative or have done conservative things, they will actively work to remove and silence you. They will uses anything from campaign donations to even demographic analyses to make that determination.
It should be $50 million and it should have to be paid by the Democrat Party.
anyone going to jail for this?
IRS Gave FBI 1.1 Million Pages of Taxpayer Data to Encourage Prosecution of Conservatives [PowerLine article by John Hinderacker, 06/10/2014]Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this [Scott Johnson article at PowerLine 06/10/2014 re Washington lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, serves letter on the attorneys at the Department of Justice representing the IRS]
Obama’s IRS Sent the FBI 1.1 Million Pages of Taxpayer Documents: An Update [PowerLine article by John Hinderacker, 06/18/2014]
What Happened to the 1.1 Million Pages of Data on Nonprofits that IRS Gave the FBI? Comey Explains [PowerLine article by John Hinderacker, 06/19/2014]
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