THIS is the Party You Want In Charge of the Government??

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A new batch of FBI documents released Thursday by Judicial Watch indicates that several senior Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials were aware of the targeting of conservative groups almost two years before they told Congress.

Lois Lerner, who oversaw tax-exempt groups for the IRS, and top IRS official Holly Paz "knew that agents were targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny as early as 2011,” the conservative legal advocacy group said in a release Thursday.

The IRS did not respond to requests for comment.

The detailed narratives of FBI agent investigations, known as FBI 302 documents, were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.

According to the documents, Paz and other IRS officials were notified in the late spring and summer of 2011 that agents in the Cincinnati branch were flagging Tea Party and conservative groups for additional scrutiny in their applications for nonprofit status.

In the spring of 2012, official Nancy Marks was tasked with investigating how applications were being processed and to find any problems.

The documents show she told then-acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on May 3, 2012 that “Cincinnati was categorizing cases based on name and ideology, not just activity.”

Miller responded by throwing "his pencil across the room" and saying, "Oh sh-t," according to the FBI summaries of interviews with officials.

Documents indicate IRS officials knew of Tea Party targeting since 2011 | Fox News

You are aware that partisan political groups are not supposed to receive non-profit status, are you not?

Are you aware that after 2010, there were hundreds of Tea Party groups applying for non-profit status?

Hardly surprising that they would be receiving special scrutiny.

but they're teatards. they're supposed to be able to do whatever they want according to the rightwingnuts.

are we starting this nonsense again?

These motherfuckers have an insane carnival barker leading their party, who thinks America is full of losers, who wants to ban and round up Americans... and they're still bitching about fringe Tea Party groups getting extra paperwork to fill out or some bullshit like that?

Ridiculous

If this position wasn't so dangerous, it would be hilarious.

You have no problem with the government targeting citizens (as long as they're citizens who don't agree with you).

You have no problem with the government abusing its authority.

Absolutely fucking amazing ....

Did the government target citizens? Well of course you can't say that because you don't know. But I would certainly want fringe extremist groups like Tea Party militias to be put under close scrutiny.

Study it ... you've clearly gotten bad information. The IRS was slow-rolling non-profit requests from organizations with "questionable" names. From that notoriously conservative Mother Jones:

"The IRS gave extra scrutiny to 298 groups applying for tax-exempt status, theWashington Post reported. Seventy-two of those groups had "tea party" in their title, 13 had "patriots," and 11 had "9/12," shorthand for the 9/12 movement started by conservative TV host Glenn Beck.

But IRS officials not only singled out tea party and liberty groups. They also looked for "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement," according to the leaked timeline. This included groups that planned to focus on government debt and spending, taxes, or those trying to "make America a better place to live."

Did you see the word "militia" in there anywhere? Here is the list of 426 organizations the IRS admitted 3 years later that they targeted. http://media.washtimes.com.s3.amazo...5/NorCal_Tea_Party_et._al._v._IRS_et._al..pdf (Hint: You won't find the word "militia" there, either).