Posted on 05/17/2013 6:38:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
As the scandal involving the IRS’ targeting of Conservatives and Tea Party groups consumes the news cycle for the moment and Barack Obama (who, so far, has claimed ignorance of the targeting) has thrown a sacrificial lamb out to appease journalists, that IRS agents targeted certain small-government, anti-tax groups should really not come as a surprise.
Beginning in 2009, Democrats and unions, including government unions, have spent the last several years demonizing Tea Party groups as well as other small government groups.
On Thursday, despite the escalating scandal, Barack Obama told reporters that he did not see the need for a special prosecutor, saying “probes by Congress and the Justice Department should be able to figure out who was responsible for improperly targeting tea party groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.”
While that may appease reporters from CNN and the mainstream media for the moment, one must wonder why there shouldn’t be a special prosecutor to look into the wrongdoings of an agency with such vast powers over the American populace. Unless, of course, there is a smoking gun that people within the administration don’t want discovered. The IRS & Executive Order 13522
In December 2009, during the first term of his presidency, in an effort to make the federal government more “union friendly,” President Obama issued Executive Order 13522.
In short, as noted in 2011, Executive Order 13522 establishes “labor-management forums” between union bosses (who may or may not be federal employees) and federal agency management.
As part of the directives under Executive Order 13522, agency heads are to engage union bosses in “pre-decisional discussions” before decisions are made–and those discussions are to be in secret and outside the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.
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I was reading how Sarah Hall Ingram got $100k in bonuses. Wow, you learn something everyday. IRS employees getting bonuses. Isn’t that special. So we got Islamo terrorists getting $100k (from welfare) and IRS terrorists getting $100k.
It seems like the ultimate purpose here is to provide the unions managerial and executive control over the government institutions to which they are attached.
Hugh and series!
gentlemen, teach your ladies the way of the gun!
Drip, drip, drip....
Confidential meetings between blah, blah, blah....
Can we get those meeting notes via FOIA request?
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