IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request

[The Rabbi]

Issa never claimed the white house was behind it. Another lie.

 

[Two Thumbs]

IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request



The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.

A spokesman for Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, said they were asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) “to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations.”

The inspector general’s audit found that groups seeking tax-exempt status with “Tea Party” and “patriots” in their name did receive extra attention from the IRS, with some facing years of delay and inappropriate questions from the agency.

But top congressional Democrats have wielded new information from the IRS this week that liberal groups were also flagged for extra attention on the sorts of “be on the lookout” lists (BOLOs) that also tripped up conservative groups.

*snip*

Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, stressed to The Hill on Tuesday that the inspector general did not say the audit was limited to Tea Party groups when it was released in mid-May.

*snip*

“You need to get at the facts. And those facts weren’t given to us, even when asked,” Levin said. “The Republicans used the failure of the IG to spell out what they knew as an opportunity to totally politicize this.”

Let me see if I understand just how fucking gullible you are;

You bought, hook, line and sinker, the idea that it was just low level workers and now you think the gop ordered it.


oh man, do I have some ocean front property in AZ with your name on it.

 

[Trajan]

And NOW Darrell Issa is backtracking.

He is now claiming that he never implied or said that Obama or the administration had anything to do with this IRS story!

Speaking of backtracking, you have started more than one topic claiming there was no special targeting of right wing groups by the IRS.

Make up your mind!

It wasn't any more special than the 'targeting' of Liberal groups and #Occupy groups.

you obviously missed my other post, please show me where that is proven?

 

[Trajan]

It looks like me and my threads have been vindicated.

FYI- is the political forum not the flame zone.

 

[rdean]

On Monday, Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee released 15 BOLO lists, which changed over time and were dated between August 2010 and April 2013. The lists included the terms "Progressive," ''Medical Marijuana," ''Occupied Territory Advocacy," ''Healthcare legislation," ''Newspaper Entities" and "Paying National Debt."
The revelation that such a wide array of groups may have received extra scrutiny is threatening to undercut the narrative of some Republican lawmakers that the IRS targeted enemies of the president during last year's presidential election.

Progressive groups also faced long delays in getting IRS to approve tax-exempt status | Fox News

Uh Oh, even Arab owned Fox News is reporting it. Ooooh, that's gotta hurt. I wonder if they are reporting that Republicans altered Benghazi emails to try to build a case against this administration?

Fox's Benghazi Talking Points Implode - NewsHounds

Last night, Major Garrett, formerly of Fox News but now with CBS News, reported that Republican-leaked emails that supposedly showed President Obama had meddled with talking points about the attack on Benghazi last September 11 - well, didn't. And how did Fox News react to this? By more or less ignoring it - and demanding further investigation.

 

[The Rabbi]

You are wrong because you are RDean.

 

[RoadVirus]

Darrell Issa should resign.

Why? For trying to hold the most corrupt administration since Nixon accountable for it's actions and the actions of the government entities under it's control?

 

[Synthaholic]

Issa never claimed the white house was behind it. Another lie.

Issa in May:

“This was a targeting of the president’s political enemies, effectively, and lies [sic] about it during the election year so that it wasn’t discovered until afterwards.”
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Here's GOP Rep. Hal Rogers, head of Appropriations:

“Of course, the enemies list out of the White House that IRS was engaged in shutting down or trying to shut down the conservative political viewpoint across the country — an enemies list that rivals that of another president some time ago.”
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Here's Sen. Ted Cruz:

“We have seen a consistent pattern in this administration, and the pattern is a willingness to use the machinery of government to target those they perceive as their political enemies. That was true with the IRS, and it’s true with the Department of Justice, in targeting reporters…”
​

Here's GOP Rep. Dave Camp, head of Ways & Means:

“We know it didn’t originate in Cincinnati.”
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Oh, and what about that deceptive video Mitch McConnell released using the IRS scandal to tie Obama to Nixon?

 

[Synthaholic]

IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request



The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.

A spokesman for Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, said they were asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) “to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations.”

The inspector general’s audit found that groups seeking tax-exempt status with “Tea Party” and “patriots” in their name did receive extra attention from the IRS, with some facing years of delay and inappropriate questions from the agency.

But top congressional Democrats have wielded new information from the IRS this week that liberal groups were also flagged for extra attention on the sorts of “be on the lookout” lists (BOLOs) that also tripped up conservative groups.

*snip*

Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, stressed to The Hill on Tuesday that the inspector general did not say the audit was limited to Tea Party groups when it was released in mid-May.

*snip*

“You need to get at the facts. And those facts weren’t given to us, even when asked,” Levin said. “The Republicans used the failure of the IG to spell out what they knew as an opportunity to totally politicize this.”

Let me see if I understand just how fucking gullible you are;

You bought, hook, line and sinker, the idea that it was just low level workers and now you think the gop ordered it.


oh man, do I have some ocean front property in AZ with your name on it.

Grow a brain, Slingblade.

 

[Cuyo]

Soooo in order to prove that right wing groups were 'targeted,' Eddie Meunster here launched an investigation which disregarded the 'targeting' of anything except 'right wing groups?'

Oh, delightful.

 

[Synthaholic]

It wasn't any more special than the 'targeting' of Liberal groups and #Occupy groups.

you obviously missed my other post, please show me where that is proven?

It's right in the first bolded section of this:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/300140-turns-out-the-whole-irs-scandal-was-fake.html


No wonder you guys stick to your talking points - you don't process new information!

 

[Synthaholic]

It looks like me and my threads have been vindicated.

FYI- is the political forum not the flame zone.

I am correct in all of them.

 

[Synthaholic]

Darrell Issa should resign.

Why? For trying to hold the most corrupt administration since Nixon accountable for it's actions and the actions of the government entities under it's control?

Bwahahahaha!!!!

You're still bitterly clinging to the failed talking points that Issa is now running away from!

 

[ClosedCaption]

2 minutes is up time for another post



you do understand, strike that, apparently you don't understand that you would have a point IF you had the stats that showed that those other grps were put under the same scrutiny and treated alike as to the other Con. grp.s by number and condition......

if such exists we should see it, then agreed, you have a point.

If I recall in the run up to one of the hearings a call went out for any progressive grp.s who had felt they had similar treatment/issues and none materialized to appear and testify(?)....

Good point, no one has stats but we all know that both groups were targeted. So your logic would state that repubs shouldn't be whining and crying because as you said, there are no stats.

I'm sure you'll opt to disagree with yourself.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Darrell Issa should resign.

How manyntheries do you post on this?
Everyday you post the liberal talking points, not smart enough to know they contradict each other



So please tell us the real story....lolololol

You are a clown....

 

[OriginalShroom]

I'll just keep posting this on every thread you start with the same misinformation...

Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups | WashingtonExaminer.com

Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups

Refuting Democratic suggestions that progressive groups were also swept up in the IRS probe of the tax status of Tea Party organizations, the Treasury Department's inspector general has revealed that just six progressive groups were targeted compared to 292 conservative groups.

In a letter to congressional Democrats, the inspector general also said that 100 percent of Tea Party groups seeking special tax status were put under IRS review, while only 30 percent of the progressive groups felt the same pressure.

The Wednesday letter to the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee punched a huge hole in Democratic claims that progressive groups were targeted as much as the Tea Party groups from May 2010-May 2012, the height of the Tea Party movement.

The letter from the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed that there just weren't many progressive groups who even sought special tax exempt status. A total of 20 sought it, and six were probed. All 292 Tea Party groups, meanwhile, were part of the IRS witchhunt.

"At this point, the evidence shows us that conservative groups were not only flagged, but targeted and abused by the IRS," said Sarah Swinehart spokeswoman for the Ways and Means Committee.

"As we gather the facts, we will follow them wherever they lead us. Chairman [Rep. David] Camp encourages all groups, regardless of political affiliation, that feel they may have been targeted to come forward and share their story."

Democrats had noticed that the word "progressives" was on the so-called Be On The Lookout, or BOLO, list. But the Treasury IG suggested that the list wasn't used.

The operative paragraph from the IG letter:

"Based on the information you flagged regarding the existence of a 'Progressives' entry on BOLO lists, TIGTA performed additional research which determined that six tax-exempt applications filed between May 2010 and May 2012 having the words 'progress' or 'progressive' in their names were included in the 298 cases the IRS identified as potential political cases. We also determined that 14 tax-exempt applications filed between May 2010 and May 2012 using the words 'progress' or 'progressive' in their names were not referred for added scrutiny as potential political cases. In total, 30 percent of the organizations we identified with the words 'progress' or "progressive" in their names were processed as potential political cases. In comparison, our audit found that 100 percent of the tax-exempt applications with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in their names were processed as potential political cases during the timeframe of our audit."

 

[francoHFW]

So how is THAT total Pubcrappe LOL?

 

[Yurt]

so how are those links coming?