IRS sent confidential info on conservatives to liberal nonprofit ProPublica

The Daily Caller ^ | 5/14/2013 | Patrick Howley

[Beave Meister]

The division of the Internal Revenue Service that improperly scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups sent confidential information on 31 conservative groups to the well-funded liberal nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica, according to a revelation made by ProPublica Monday.

“The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year,” according to the ProPublica report.

“In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved — meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six of those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.),” according to ProPublica.

[Jyotishi]

Paul Sagan... President Obama appointed Mr. Sagan to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee in 2010....

Herb Allison... In March of 2009, President Obama nominated Allison to head the $700 billion TARP program as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Counselor to Treasury Secretary Geithner. He ran that program until it closed to new investment at the end of September 2010. In November 2011 he was appointed by the White House to conduct an independent study of the Department of Energy’s clean energy loan program in the wake of the bankruptcy of Solyndra....

http://www.propublica.org/about/leadership/

[alancarp]

And people think voter fraud claims are overblown. This thing just blew up, big time. Rush is all over it.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Scoutmaster~:” It’s HIPAA, not HIPPA.”

Thank you for the correction
It’s just that when I get up in the morning , my mind is more on the ‘P’s’

[brityank]

Interesting nugget in the last paragraph:

Despite a massive endowment provided by progressive movement titans, the website for the liberal nonprofit group attracted an average of only 348,000 unique visitors per month in 2011, making it unclear why the IRS would leak the info to that outlet.

Gets it out into the data-mining interwebs, no? (The link is to ProPublica's 2011 Annual Report pdf)

Pretty sure FR gets that many plus more every day!

[bgill]

Just imagine what all is being sent to who knows whom about Jo and Johanna Citizen. I know nothing is private anymore but where in the IRS regulations book does it say they can send information to XYZ Organization or to anywhere?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

bgill ~:” .. where in the IRS regulations book does it say they can send information to XYZ Organization or to anywhere? “

It’s called a criminal act ~ a violation of confidentiality.
Both the perp and the reciever should be criminally charged,
and then the issue should go into civil litigation.
The severity of the issue is found at the conclusion of your tax return whereby you swear that the information is true,
and are liable for incarceration if found to be untrue.
Simply stated , it is a violation of trust and confidentiality