http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dncrico/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 01:34:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021862/posts New evidence has emerged that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez may have improperly prosecuted Wells Fargo, Bank of America and dozens of other banks for lending discrimination by using deficient mortgage data in investigations. IBD has learned the special prosecutor spearheading Perez's record number of statistics-based cases of racism against lenders told federal bank regulators in 2010 he lacked key home loan data needed to conduct the kind of iron-clad "regression analyses" that would hold up in court. Still, Perez's civil-rights division used the shaky data to force bank defendants into a record $600 million in settlements, including loan set-asides... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021862/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 01:34:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021828/posts The head of the National Treasury Employee Union (NTEU), which represents employees of the Internal Revenue Service, met with President Barack Obama in the White House one day before the manager of the IRS’s “Technical Unit” suggested establishing a “Sensitive Case Report” for the tax-exempt status applications of Tea Party groups, according to data from the official White House visitor log and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The White House visitor log shows that NTEU President Colleen Kelley met with Obama--“POTUS,” President of the United States--on March 31, 2010. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report on... Cybercast News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021828/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 23:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021602/posts The IRS scandal is becoming more insane by the minute.  After the testimony on Friday from the Inspector General and the now “retiring” acting IRS Commissioner, Steven Miller, things couldn’t be more convoluted.  First of all, Obama came out and said that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had “demanded the resignation” of Miller, when in fact, Miller was due to leave his post by June of this year.  So there was no “resigning” going on, and he will leave with all of his benefits intact.  Wow!  No accountability, no answers, no penalties. Next we find out that during the four year... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021602/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 14:06:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021571/posts “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal? Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts. March 31, 2010. According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021571/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 13:07:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021589/posts National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley (in tan jacket) leads a protest earlier this month. About 250 Federal workers massed in Federal Plaza in Manhattan May 7 to protest the sequester cuts. (The Chief) This explains things… President Obama met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief Colleen Kelly in the White House the day before the agency targeted Tea Party. The Spectator reported: “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021589/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 13:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021332/posts The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who apologized for targeting conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny is married to an attorney whose firm hosted a voter registration organizing event for the Obama presidential campaign, praised President Obama’s policy work, and had one of its partners appointed by Obama to a key ambassadorship. IRS Exempt Organizations Division director Lois G. Lerner, who has been described as “apolitical” in mainstream press coverage of the IRS scandal, is married to tax attorney Michael R. Miles, a partner at the law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. The firm is based in Atlanta but has... Daily Caller http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021332/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 16:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021235/posts It eventually comes down to who — who at the IRS was responsible for targeting conservative and Tea Party groups for special scrutiny. Because, after all, you can’t put a “system” in jail. You can’t put a report in prison. You can’t indict a department for corruption. At the end of the day it’s people who are responsible for using the enormous powers of the Internal Revenue Service to go after other people and groups because of their political beliefs. U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told the tale of one of his constituents who applied for tax-exempt status for her... The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021235/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 07:04:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021083/posts Coach is Right published this article well before the current IRS scandals had broken. We thought readers might be interested in taking another look at this slight infraction committed by our “voluntary” taxing authorities. In September of 2011, 60 million health records involving 10 million Americans were illegally confiscated by members of the IRS. The theft took place at an unidentified place of business in California. Referring to itself as the John Doe Company in a lawsuit filed last week against the 15 IRS agents who took part, plaintiffs claim that... Coach is Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021083/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 18:55:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019822/posts With Soros funding, anything is possible. The growing scandal where the IRS unfairly targeted politically-conservative groups can be traced back to a lobbying effort begun by George Soros-funded liberal groups in 2010, after the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. Conservative News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019822/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 16:38:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020204/posts GOP Rep.: White House ‘Hand-Selected’ Benghazi E-Mails By Andrew Johnson May 16, 2013 10:03 AM Representative Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) said the White House e-mails about Benghazi that were released last night were “hand-selected” to leave out other important documents. “I know absolutely, for total certainty, this is just but a small smidgeon of what they have,” Chaffetz said. There are 25,000-pages worth of documents, he said, but the White House released only100 total pages. “The White House has hand-selected these,” he added. nationalreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020204/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 14:42:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020163/posts It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment). It’s about 94% of NTEU union contributions going to Democrats in the Senate and House in 2012 — candidates who campaigned as vociferous opponents of the Tea Party. And the recently released report from... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020163/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 13:04:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020135/posts Corruption: The inspector general's report on the IRS targeting of conservatives makes it seem like a case of bureaucratic bumbling. But the more we learn, the more it looks like a concerted effort to hobble Obama's political foes. 'Inappropriate criteria," "insufficient oversight" and "lack of managerial review." That's what led the IRS to target hundreds of conservative groups for intrusive, costly and lengthy scrutiny during their application for tax-exempt status, according to the IG report released on Tuesday. In other words, it wasn't a politically motivated attack on conservative groups during a presidential campaign. It was just a case of... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020135/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019981/posts Senate Democrats blocked a resolution condemning the targeting of tea party groups by the Internal Revenue Service Wednesday, according to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul. The resolution Paul introduced Tuesday condemns the targeting of tea party and other affected groups. The resolution further calls for investigations and criminal charges against those who authorized or were involved in targeting people on the basis of their political beliefs. “This resolution is not about Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal. It is about arrogant and unrestrained government vs. the rule of law. The First Amendment cannot and should not be renegotiated depending... Daily Caller http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019981/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 23:10:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019982/posts Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS employee and Obama campaign donor. Using the Citizens United case as a pretext, retiring Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., on July 27, 2012, wrote IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman to investigate 12 conservative groups he accused of violating their tax-exempt status and engaging in coordinated political activity. The groups Levin asked to be targeted for special scrutiny were Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, Priorities U.S.A., Americans Elect, American Action Network, Americans for Prosperity, American Future Fund, Americans... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019982/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 23:11:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019815/posts Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years. The Blaze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019815/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 16:27:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019240/posts Your government, as currently administered by President Obama, doesn’t like the word “patriot.” If you associate yourself with an organization using that word, you may be investigated and prosecuted. Under Obama, government employees think they are doing what their superiors want them to do when they harass and menace political organizations that might oppose the president. Vladimir Putin is probably jealous of Obama. He and others like him will hardly be able to hide their smiles when they hear the United States preach about the need to let political organizations function freely. What lessons should the Muslim Brotherhood learn from... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019240/posts#comment Tue, 14 May 2013 14:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018735/posts USBC News Wire- Yet a another major scandal is rocking the already extraordinarily unpopular Obama administration, this time the controversy involves abuses by the IRS in targeting US citizens based on their political views. It appears that agents used keywords to target groups in opposition to the governing Democratic administration. Remarkably, the agents found it acceptable to single out patriots for unprecedented behavior. The agents singled out their fellow citizens by using keywords such as “patriot” or “tea party” (itself a reference to the earliest American patriots) to identify groups that object to the policies of the current administration. Lois... USBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018735/posts#comment Mon, 13 May 2013 13:01:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018729/posts The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted on May 10 that “low level” staff in its Cincinnati office, supposedly “not motivated by political bias,” targeted 75 conservative tax-exempt organizations, including many Tea Party organizations applying for exemption under Section 501(c)4 of the tax code. The groups were singled out for audit and investigation because they used the names “Tea Party” and “Patriot.” Yet in July 2011, the IRS had warned employees to drop audits of donors to similar 501(c)4 organizations. Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018729/posts#comment Mon, 13 May 2013 12:31:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018207/posts Caught playing politics with tragedy, what's next for the Obama administration and GOP investigators?“These changes don’t resolve all of my issues or those of my building’s leadership.” With that sentence, one in a series of emails and draft “talking points” leaked to Jonathan Karl of ABC News, the Obama administration was caught playing politics with Benghazi. Summaries of White House and State Department emails -- some of which were first published by Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard -- also contradict the White House version of events that led to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice misleading the public about the cause... nationaljournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018207/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2013 15:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018179/posts Conservatives who have been wondering how Obama survived the 2012 election now have fuel for the common complaint that he stole the election by cheating. And no, I’m not talking about the vote rigging in precincts where he had more votes than voters. Nor am I talking about petitions where signature gatherers illegally forged names in order for Obama to qualify for a state primary ballot. I’m also not talking about Obama’s failure to vote on much legislation when he was an Illinois state senator, nor on his ability to produce any meaningful legislation for the three weeks he acted... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018179/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2013 13:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017877/posts (CNSNews.com) -- Elements of the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, the Libyan militia hired by the U.S. State Department to station members as residents inside the U.S. compound in Benghazi and to protect the U.S. diplomats there, were “complicit” in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to the testimony of Greg Hicks, who was the department's second-ranking diplomat in Libya at the time of the attack. “Certainly, elements of that militia were complicit in the attacks,” Greg Hicks, the State Department’s former deputy chief of mission in Libya told the House... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017877/posts#comment Fri, 10 May 2013 16:14:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3017513/posts Made this for sharing on Facebook and elsewhere... The Looking Spoon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3017513/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 18:25:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016461/posts The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping — for many a largely tax-free frontier — to state sales taxes. The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, getting support from Republicans and Democrats alike. But opposition from some conservatives who view it as a tax increase will make it a tougher sell in the House. President Barack Obama has conveyed his support for the measure. Under current law, states can only require retailers to collect sales taxes if the... NBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016461/posts#comment Tue, 7 May 2013 00:14:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016347/posts In the hours that followed, Hicks says, the Libyan military agreed to fly a C-130 from Tripoli to Benghazi in the early morning hours of September 12 – a flight that was to include a second team of Special Operations soldiers – dispatched from the Libyan capital to join a team sent earlier to Benghazi. But as those reinforcements were leaving for the flight, they were told to stand down. Hicks received the news in an early morning phone call from a top military commander in the region. “So Lieutenant Colonel Gibson, who is the SOCAFRICA commander, his team, you... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016347/posts#comment Mon, 6 May 2013 18:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016331/posts Full title - "Report: Nearby US special forces blocked during Benghazi attack, told ‘you don’t have authority to go’" As the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya raged on for more than seven hours, a team of U.S. special forces in Tripoli was blocked from flying in to attempt a rescue, according to a top American diplomat who was in the region. In previously secret testimony given by Gregory Hicks — the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya — to congressional investigators last month, Hicks revealed two possible... dailycaller.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016331/posts#comment Mon, 6 May 2013 18:02:20 GMT