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IRS agent’s email says groups were targeted ‘primarily because of their political party affiliation’
Washington Times ^
| 10/25/17
| Stephen Dinan
Posted on 10/25/2017 5:57:34 PM PDT by markomalley
Lawyers think they have finally found the smoking gun in the IRS’s tea party targeting scandal: an email from an IRS agent to her supervisors alerting them that the agency was, in fact, singling out some groups’ applications for extreme scrutiny “primarily because of their political party affiliation.”
The email was released last month as part of a massive document dump in a class-action lawsuit filed in Ohio by hundreds of conservative groups who were targeted for extra review and intrusive questioning.
It contradicts the IRS’s official stance over the years contending that conservative groups were wrongly scrutinized, but it was a result of their behavior, not their politics.
Instead, the April 1, 2011, email from Elizabeth C. Kastenberg, an official in the agency’s exempt organizations division, says it was explicitly the organizations’ politics that landed them on the target list.
“These cases are held back primarily because of their political party affiliation rather than specifically any political activities,” Ms. Kastenberg wrote in an alert to other IRS employees, including her supervisor.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: irs
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To: markomalley
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posted on
10/25/2017 5:59:06 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
To: markomalley
Why is Koskinen still there?
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posted on
10/25/2017 5:59:48 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(What the hell is a fungus?)
To: markomalley
Lois Lerner is still laughing.
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10/25/2017 6:00:05 PM PDT
by
blam
To: markomalley
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posted on
10/25/2017 6:01:36 PM PDT
by
gaijin
(Basically Obama lawyers would blatantly make up some totally groundless allegation against a fat cas)
To: markomalley
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posted on
10/25/2017 6:05:28 PM PDT
by
gaijin
(Basically Obama lawyers would blatantly make up some totally groundless allegation against a fat cas)
To: gaijin
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posted on
10/25/2017 6:06:03 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
To: markomalley
“These cases are held back primarily because of their political party affiliation rather than specifically any political activities,” Ms. Kastenberg
JAIL for Ms. KASTENBERG
JAIL
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posted on
10/25/2017 6:06:07 PM PDT
by
JPJones
(Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
To: markomalley
So what.
Sessions has already let Lois Lerner off the hook.
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posted on
10/25/2017 6:07:24 PM PDT
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: markomalley
Where is rip van sessions?
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10/25/2017 6:07:39 PM PDT
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raiderboy
( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
To: gaijin
Learner, the bitch, belongs behind bars... and she isn’t, because ... ?
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posted on
10/25/2017 6:10:38 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(... so much win!)
To: Fungi
Koskinen was doing what the uni-party told him to do.
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10/25/2017 6:11:36 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: rrrod
He is too busy fighting MS 13.
To: markomalley
I seem to remember something like that in the Clinton years. Many known Conservative organizations were targeted for something like continuous audit for years.
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10/25/2017 6:13:16 PM PDT
by
arthurus
To: JPJones
She copied in her boss. Jail for hum/her as well.
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10/25/2017 6:13:59 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
To: markomalley
Not too shabby for a banana republic that cant grow bananas!
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10/25/2017 6:16:19 PM PDT
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rawcatslyentist
(TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
To: rrrod
To: markomalley; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ...
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10/25/2017 6:46:02 PM PDT
by
bitt
(press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
To: rrrod
Is there an AG?\
Not if you are a Uniparty Elite.
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10/25/2017 7:01:33 PM PDT
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Freedom56v2
(Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
To: markomalley; All
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10/25/2017 7:05:00 PM PDT
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musicman
(The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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