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Post by Peteetongman on May 10, 2013 18:21:52 GMT -5
We can't have anybody getting outta line now can we............ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation of the Internal Revenue Service was launched on Friday after a senior IRS official publicly apologized for subjecting conservative political groups to "inappropriate" scrutiny. In a practice that drew complaints during the 2012 election campaign, groups with the words "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names were flagged for closer IRS review when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status. "We would like to apologize for that," said Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt office at an American Bar Association conference. She said the practice "was absolutely incorrect and it was inappropriate." Lerner said screening of the conservative groups was "absolutely not" influenced by the Obama administration. In what could be a major embarrassment for the IRS and a potential distraction for President Barack Obama, the matter is under investigation by the IRS inspector general. news.yahoo.com/u-tax-agency-admits-scrutiny-conservative-groups-wrong-174755076.html |
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Post by thelion on May 14, 2013 10:49:16 GMT -5
You do realize that there were an unusually high number of APPLICANTS for 401c-4 status which had to be reviewed, yes?
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Post by Peteetongman on May 14, 2013 11:10:00 GMT -5
You do realize that there were an unusually high number of APPLICANTS for 401c-4 status which had to be reviewed, yes? "We would like to apologize for that," said Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt office at an American Bar Association conference. She said the practice "was absolutely incorrect and it was inappropriate." |
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Post by Peteetongman on May 14, 2013 11:19:42 GMT -5
You do realize that there were an unusually high number of APPLICANTS for 401c-4 status which had to be reviewed, yes? Has the IRS apologized to any other groups? |
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Post by Peteetongman on May 14, 2013 13:40:34 GMT -5
We can't have anybody getting outta line now can we............ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation of the Internal Revenue Service was launched on Friday after a senior IRS official publicly apologized for subjecting conservative political groups to "inappropriate" scrutiny. In a practice that drew complaints during the 2012 election campaign, groups with the words "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names were flagged for closer IRS review when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status. "We would like to apologize for that," said Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt office at an American Bar Association conference. She said the practice "was absolutely incorrect and it was inappropriate." Lerner said screening of the conservative groups was "absolutely not" influenced by the Obama administration. In what could be a major embarrassment for the IRS and a potential distraction for President Barack Obama, the matter is under investigation by the IRS inspector general. news.yahoo.com/u-tax-agency-admits-scrutiny-conservative-groups-wrong-174755076.htmlWait, it gets worse: IRS leaked conservative groups’ confidential documents to ProPublica The latest IRS scandal is getting worse — and the official watchdog’s report hasn’t even been released yet. Today we learned that the same IRS office that admitted to targeting Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also released confidential documents from several conservative groups to “independent” (that is, liberal) news organization ProPublica. Confidential information from groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS made it into the hands of ProPublica late last year, and now ProPublica reports that the IRS’ Cincinnati office was the source of the documents. “No unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica,” the site reports, while data from nine conservative groups was leaked. The independent investigative journalists at ProPublica went ahead and reported on Crossroads’ confidential application, somehow forgetting to investigate just how they came by confidential documents in the first place — until now. twitchy.com/2013/05/13/it-gets-worse-irs-leaked-conservative-groups-confidential-documents-to-propublica/ |
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Post by Peteetongman on May 15, 2013 17:59:35 GMT -5
We can't have anybody getting outta line now can we............ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation of the Internal Revenue Service was launched on Friday after a senior IRS official publicly apologized for subjecting conservative political groups to "inappropriate" scrutiny. In a practice that drew complaints during the 2012 election campaign, groups with the words "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names were flagged for closer IRS review when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status. "We would like to apologize for that," said Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt office at an American Bar Association conference. She said the practice "was absolutely incorrect and it was inappropriate." Lerner said screening of the conservative groups was "absolutely not" influenced by the Obama administration. In what could be a major embarrassment for the IRS and a potential distraction for President Barack Obama, the matter is under investigation by the IRS inspector general. news.yahoo.com/u-tax-agency-admits-scrutiny-conservative-groups-wrong-174755076.htmlWait, it gets worse: IRS leaked conservative groups’ confidential documents to ProPublica The latest IRS scandal is getting worse — and the official watchdog’s report hasn’t even been released yet. Today we learned that the same IRS office that admitted to targeting Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also released confidential documents from several conservative groups to “independent” (that is, liberal) news organization ProPublica. Confidential information from groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS made it into the hands of ProPublica late last year, and now ProPublica reports that the IRS’ Cincinnati office was the source of the documents. “No unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica,” the site reports, while data from nine conservative groups was leaked. The independent investigative journalists at ProPublica went ahead and reported on Crossroads’ confidential application, somehow forgetting to investigate just how they came by confidential documents in the first place — until now. twitchy.com/2013/05/13/it-gets-worse-irs-leaked-conservative-groups-confidential-documents-to-propublica/IRS Commissioner Steven Miller announced "with regret" that he'll be leaving the agency in early June. "This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation's tax agency," said Miller, a 25-year IRS veteran. "I believe the Service will benefit from having a new acting commissioner in place during this challenging period. BWAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAA!!!!! Obama you're next politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/15/read-the-irs-acting-commissioners-resignation-letter/ |
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Post by Peteetongman on May 16, 2013 9:03:51 GMT -5
We can't have anybody getting outta line now can we............ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation of the Internal Revenue Service was launched on Friday after a senior IRS official publicly apologized for subjecting conservative political groups to "inappropriate" scrutiny. In a practice that drew complaints during the 2012 election campaign, groups with the words "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names were flagged for closer IRS review when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status. "We would like to apologize for that," said Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt office at an American Bar Association conference. She said the practice "was absolutely incorrect and it was inappropriate." Lerner said screening of the conservative groups was "absolutely not" influenced by the Obama administration. In what could be a major embarrassment for the IRS and a potential distraction for President Barack Obama, the matter is under investigation by the IRS inspector general. news.yahoo.com/u-tax-agency-admits-scrutiny-conservative-groups-wrong-174755076.htmlAnd there's more: Atlanta Tea Party organizers say they were targets of intrusive actions by the IRS. Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, sits on the board of the national Tea Party Patriots and says the organization spent at least $250,000 fighting efforts to protect its lists of donors, volunteers and Congressional members who support it. “They asked us very, very invasive information and documentation,” she says. “They wanted to know and for us to take screen shots of what our Tea Party Patriot supporters were saying on our Facebook page.” Dooley is calling for congressional hearings into the actions by the agency as well as an independent investigation. “We have no faith in the Eric Holder Justice Department investigating,” she tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish. Dooley also plans to look at suing the individual agents involved. “We complained very loudly, we were ridiculed and ignored,” she says. “We feel vindicated now.” www.wsbradio.com/news/news/atlanta-tea-party-irs-asked-about-facebook-posts/nXsSw/ |
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