Posted on 07/23/2015 4:43:38 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Corruption: A new batch of IRS documents shows an agency that's more political than practical. Besides harassing groups applying for nonprofit status, it went after donors of existing groups.
Documents produced by the IRS confirm that being on the wrong side of this administration is a dangerous place to be.
Judicial Watch, which used the Freedom of Information Act to pry the documents from the government's grasp, said Wednesday they "confirm that the IRS used donor lists to tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits."
Among these groups was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That organization "may find itself under high scrutiny," an IRS official whose name was redacted told IRS attorney Lorraine Gardner in an email.
"One can only hope," that unnamed official added.
Another group whose donors were objects of extra IRS attention was Crossroads GPS, a group founded by Karl Rove, a member of President George W. Bush's staff.
It appears that the IRS' pretext for the audits was the gift tax that was once levied on donations to nonprofits. It has not been enforced since 1982, Judicial Watch pointed out, because the Supreme Court ruled it violated the First Amendment.
Naturally, the records show that former IRS official Lois Lerner supported the gift tax audits.
The documents clearly indicate that the IRS' focus was political. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says that "snarky comments" found in the documents "about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the obsession with conservative Crossroads GPS show that the IRS was targeting critics of the Obama administration."
Fitton says that "President Obama may want to continue to lie about his IRS scandal" — he denied the issue existed as recently as this week — but Fitton has sifted through the documents and believes they "tell the truth."
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Corrupt Boehner and Corrupt McCain and
utterly corrupt McConnell HELPED this IRS
and have sworn to keep it covered up,
helped by corrupt Issa and now corrupt Gowdy.
NO ONE IS IN JAIL, and yet Nixon resigned
for only considering such abuse.
The GOP and DNC are truly enemies of the American people.
The really sad thing is that if Soetoro were replaced by Mugabe it would be a major step in the direction of more respectable government.
So does that mean posters to FR could be targets?
Can’t disagree. What is the answer?
It's safe to assume so.
Be sure to read the whole article, of course. Phil Kerpen found one very interesting nugget in the data dump that’s worth noting:
“William Wilkins, Obama-appointed IRS Chief Counsel, personally signed off on C4 donor targeting memo.”
So far, they are targeting political donors and organizers, not penniless opinion-expressers like us...but that could change one day. :)
That's the only thing that makes sense out of the deafening silence from the Swamp (my nickname for Congress) on impeachment.
Obama and his ‘rat henchmen are interested in only one thing - power for themselves. For all his talk about equality and giving everyone opportunity, he has no understanding of what this country is supposed to be about - bringing diverse people together and allowing all to participate fairly and equally in what the country has to offer - he knows better than anyone else and must have his way no matter what, and anyone who disagrees must be silenced and if necessary destroyed - I’m afraid for the Republic too....
He’s a muslim communist. He’s extra dangerous.
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