GOP Surrenders Cherished IRS Scandal at Last

[BlindBoo]

The Feds paid a settlement to conservative groups FFS
One of the settlement agreements includes a piece that says they targeted them for political beliefs.

Trumps DOJ you mean. Partisan hacks.

Here's the Cell's theme song they were promising to put Lois in.

When are they not hacks?
Do you think the court system was part of the conspiracy as well? Even the perps themselves?

Conspiracy? Do tell.

 

[TNHarley]

The Feds paid a settlement to conservative groups FFS
One of the settlement agreements includes a piece that says they targeted them for political beliefs.

Trumps DOJ you mean. Partisan hacks.

Here's the Cell's theme song they were promising to put Lois in.

When are they not hacks?
Do you think the court system was part of the conspiracy as well? Even the perps themselves?

Conspiracy? Do tell.

you called trumps doj hacks. so i figured you were implying it was all a set up or something.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Fake scandal was always a fake scandal.


GOP Surrenders Cherished IRS Scandal at Last

The fiction served the GOP for years, yet died quietly this month, forsaken and alone.

The IRS scandal came to a pathetic, whimpering conclusion earlier this month. For half a decade the scandal had kept delinquent members of Congress occupied and served up reliable programming to Fox News and other conservative media. But when Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen walked out of his office on Nov. 9, of his own volition, on schedule, his fine reputation intact, the whole greasy production quietly expired.

*snip*

The story told by Republicans is so well known that it substitutes for fact. In the first years of the Obama administration, Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations rose up to defy the government. When the groups sought IRS approval for their designations as “social welfare” organizations under the tax code, the IRS targeted them with burdensome queries, harassing the groups while slow-walking reviews of their applications. In this telling, it was a political vendetta – carried out against conservatives by a government agency that many anti-government, anti-tax conservatives especially despised.


Republicans claimed the IRS served as an attack dog for the Obama White House. But inquiries by the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Justice Department all failed to produce evidence of political interference.

*snip*

Yet the IRS clearly applied extra scrutiny to groups that it thought might be engaged in too much politics to warrant the preferential tax designation. One way IRS personnel did that was to look for key words, such as “Tea Party.” Other words that triggered IRS scrutiny included: “Occupy,” “green energy,” “medical marijuana” and “progressive.”

Contrary to the Republican story, the IRS never targeted conservatives. The IRS targeted politics, which was pretty much what it was supposed to do.

In September, the Trump Justice Department reaffirmed the decision of the Obama Justice Department not to prosecute Lois Lerner, the IRS bureaucrat whom Republicans settled on as a criminal mastermind after they had failed to find an exploitable connection to Obama.

Yes, the federal government always pays out millions of dollars in settlements over phony scandals that never actually happened, right, numb nuts?

 

[blackhawk]

I guess that’s why Lois Lerner wants the deposition she gave in court cases sealed permanently.
Lois Lerner, Holly Paz want testimony sealed permanently - Washington Times

 

[JakeStarkey]

IOW, all the yelling about the "IRS is out to get us" is hogwash.

 

[BlindBoo]

Fake scandal was always a fake scandal.


GOP Surrenders Cherished IRS Scandal at Last

The fiction served the GOP for years, yet died quietly this month, forsaken and alone.

The IRS scandal came to a pathetic, whimpering conclusion earlier this month. For half a decade the scandal had kept delinquent members of Congress occupied and served up reliable programming to Fox News and other conservative media. But when Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen walked out of his office on Nov. 9, of his own volition, on schedule, his fine reputation intact, the whole greasy production quietly expired.

*snip*

The story told by Republicans is so well known that it substitutes for fact. In the first years of the Obama administration, Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations rose up to defy the government. When the groups sought IRS approval for their designations as “social welfare” organizations under the tax code, the IRS targeted them with burdensome queries, harassing the groups while slow-walking reviews of their applications. In this telling, it was a political vendetta – carried out against conservatives by a government agency that many anti-government, anti-tax conservatives especially despised.


Republicans claimed the IRS served as an attack dog for the Obama White House. But inquiries by the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Justice Department all failed to produce evidence of political interference.

*snip*

Yet the IRS clearly applied extra scrutiny to groups that it thought might be engaged in too much politics to warrant the preferential tax designation. One way IRS personnel did that was to look for key words, such as “Tea Party.” Other words that triggered IRS scrutiny included: “Occupy,” “green energy,” “medical marijuana” and “progressive.”

Contrary to the Republican story, the IRS never targeted conservatives. The IRS targeted politics, which was pretty much what it was supposed to do.

In September, the Trump Justice Department reaffirmed the decision of the Obama Justice Department not to prosecute Lois Lerner, the IRS bureaucrat whom Republicans settled on as a criminal mastermind after they had failed to find an exploitable connection to Obama.

Yes, the federal government always pays out millions of dollars in settlements over phony scandals that never actually happened, right, numb nuts?

Nobody ever said nothing happened. The phony part was that there was some sort of collusion between President Obama and Lois Lerner to target these political groups.

 

[Timmy]

Omg ! Cons being profiled ! Worst crime ever! Way worse than blacks being shot down by police . I mean , they had to fill out extra paperwork to get out of paying taxes !

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Omg ! Cons being profiled ! Worst crime ever! Way worse than blacks being shot down by police . I mean , they had to fill out extra paperwork to get out of paying taxes !

I'm glad you love your authoritarian government doing justice for you proletariat scum.

 

[Aldo Raine]

Lois Lerner is going to be arrested any time now…just wait…

Before or after Obama and Clinton?

 

[Care4all]

Sorry bedwetter. I will believe court documents over an opinion piece on bloomberg..

got a link to these court documents you believe?

Feds Apologize, Will Pay ‘Generous’ Settlement to Tea Party Groups for Illegal Targeting

Sorry bedwetter. I will believe court documents over an opinion piece on bloomberg..

got a link to these court documents you believe?

Feds Apologize, Will Pay ‘Generous’ Settlement to Tea Party Groups for Illegal Targeting

Ok, but where are the Court documents and not the biased story, that you said you believe and relied on to make your decision?

biased? so they should have been able to target people? LOL

you said you believe the court documents, I mistakenly thought you read them.... sorry to bother you!

 

[TNHarley]

Sorry bedwetter. I will believe court documents over an opinion piece on bloomberg..

got a link to these court documents you believe?

Feds Apologize, Will Pay ‘Generous’ Settlement to Tea Party Groups for Illegal Targeting

Sorry bedwetter. I will believe court documents over an opinion piece on bloomberg..

got a link to these court documents you believe?

Feds Apologize, Will Pay ‘Generous’ Settlement to Tea Party Groups for Illegal Targeting

Ok, but where are the Court documents and not the biased story, that you said you believe and relied on to make your decision?

biased? so they should have been able to target people? LOL

you said you believe the court documents, I mistakenly thought you read them.... sorry to bother you!

Oh No! My fault. Going back and reading, I would have thought that too. Lol
As far as I know, the documents have not been released. Someone asked for them, but idk if they got them or not. I don't think the case is actually closed yet. They had a few things still pending. It was unrelated to what I mentioned.

 

[TNHarley]

I think it was a newspaper in Cincinnati as that is where this problem originated

 

[blackhawk]

The amusing thing here is if the I.R.S. was to do the exact same thing while Trump is President the vast majority would switch positions the left would be screaming bloody murder and right would be calling it a phony scandal. One of the few things both parties have in common is the it's only wrong when the other side does it mindset.

 

[Timmy]

Omg ! Cons being profiled ! Worst crime ever! Way worse than blacks being shot down by police . I mean , they had to fill out extra paperwork to get out of paying taxes !

I'm glad you love your authoritarian government doing justice for you proletariat scum.

It may have gone over your head but I was mocking righties who normally support profiling.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Fake scandal was always a fake scandal.


GOP Surrenders Cherished IRS Scandal at Last

The fiction served the GOP for years, yet died quietly this month, forsaken and alone.

The IRS scandal came to a pathetic, whimpering conclusion earlier this month. For half a decade the scandal had kept delinquent members of Congress occupied and served up reliable programming to Fox News and other conservative media. But when Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen walked out of his office on Nov. 9, of his own volition, on schedule, his fine reputation intact, the whole greasy production quietly expired.

*snip*

The story told by Republicans is so well known that it substitutes for fact. In the first years of the Obama administration, Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations rose up to defy the government. When the groups sought IRS approval for their designations as “social welfare” organizations under the tax code, the IRS targeted them with burdensome queries, harassing the groups while slow-walking reviews of their applications. In this telling, it was a political vendetta – carried out against conservatives by a government agency that many anti-government, anti-tax conservatives especially despised.


Republicans claimed the IRS served as an attack dog for the Obama White House. But inquiries by the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Justice Department all failed to produce evidence of political interference.

*snip*

Yet the IRS clearly applied extra scrutiny to groups that it thought might be engaged in too much politics to warrant the preferential tax designation. One way IRS personnel did that was to look for key words, such as “Tea Party.” Other words that triggered IRS scrutiny included: “Occupy,” “green energy,” “medical marijuana” and “progressive.”

Contrary to the Republican story, the IRS never targeted conservatives. The IRS targeted politics, which was pretty much what it was supposed to do.

In September, the Trump Justice Department reaffirmed the decision of the Obama Justice Department not to prosecute Lois Lerner, the IRS bureaucrat whom Republicans settled on as a criminal mastermind after they had failed to find an exploitable connection to Obama.

FAKE SCANDAL?



LOIS LERNER ASKED THAT HER TESTIMONY BE WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC FOR HER OWN SAFETY.

Lois Lerner wants IRS testimony sealed forever, fearing death threats

Sounds pretty fucking real to me.

 

[JakeStarkey]

So what, ColonelAngus.

Case closed. Run along.

Benghazi closed. Run along.

 

[Snouter]

Very troubling The Banana Republic Swamp wants to hide information for fear the public will want those responsible for attacking our democracy punished!

Lois Lerner wants IRS testimony sealed forever, fearing death threats