B-Man Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 REPORT: Rep. Darrell Issa Has Information That Will Link IRS Scandal Up Into the White House! TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 REPORT: Rep. Darrell Issa Has Information That Will Link IRS Scandal Up Into the White House! TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 69. QUICK! Someone call Holder and trigger Operation Trayvon Panther Attack for tomorrow morning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 (edited) REPORT: Rep. Darrell Issa Has Information That Will Link IRS Scandal Up Into the White House! TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 69. If Issa is correct that will be damning for the most transparent administration in history. Forward! Yes we can! Edited July 18, 2013 by drinkTHEkoolaid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 If Issa is correct that will be damning for the most transparent administration in history. Forward! Yes we can! Good luck getting any press on it this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 My expectation is that the "revelation" is being oversold, and even if it isn't, (as GG points out) it will not be treated as a major story either way. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 Applications of Liberal Groups Not Scrutinized, IRS Agent Says By Eliana Johnson The IRS agent charged with processing tea-party applications said today that the applications of liberal groups did not receive additional scrutiny, as some Democrats have argued. ”There were occasions when other agents sent to me applications from liberal or non-tea-party-type groups,” Elizabeth Hofacre said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee. ”When that occurred, pursuant to the instructions that were given to me, I would send those applications to general inventory since they were not within the scope of the Tea Party emerging issue.” In recent weeks, House Democrats including Elijah Cummings and Sander Levin have contended that because the terms “Progressive” and “Occupy” appeared on some of the IRS’s now-infamous “Be on the Lookout” lists, those groups were scrutinized in the same manner as tea-party organizations. Inspector general J. Russell George, the author of the May report that concluded the IRS had inappropriately targeted tea parties, submitted testimony to the committee earlier today indicating that he is looking into allegations that liberal groups were also targeted but that, of the 298 cases the IRS selected for political review between May 2010 and May 2010, just three included the term “Progressive” in the organization’s name; none included the term “Occupy.” "TEA Party emerging issue" ??............what the hell does that imply ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZytEUCXu4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 IRS SCANDAL UPDATE, ATTACK-THE-WHISTLEBLOWER EDITION: Watchdog decries ‘unprecedented’ treatment by Dems at IRS hearing. The government watchdog who issued the report that found the IRS was targeting conservative groups was turned into a punching bag by Democrats in the second half of a tense hearing Thursday, leading Inspector General J. Russell George to chide lawmakers for their attacks on his office. “This is unprecedented,” he said of his treatment before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at the end of the hearing. The first half of the hearing was devoted to testimony from IRS officials who claimed higher-ups in Washington, D.C., were involved in applying additional scrutiny to Tea Party and other groups. But the second half featured George and his associates, and ended up becoming a forum for Democratic lawmakers to accuse him of effectively ignoring potential signs that liberal groups may have been targeted as well. They pointed in part to IRS documents that suggest “progressive” groups may have been singled out. George, though, said he didn’t see one of those packets until last week. He said he was “disturbed” it took so long for the IRS to produce the documents. Hey, it took a while to make them look convincing. . . . And it’s obviously racist of the Democrats to go after a black man this way. More: Earlier Thursday, a veteran IRS worker testified that officials from a Washington office led by a political appointee intervened in the screening of Tea Party applications, saying publicly for the first time the IRS chief counsel’s office was involved in the controversial program. Carter Hull, a recently retired tax law specialist, had earlier come under scrutiny after an employee in the Cincinnati IRS office told congressional investigators that he had been micro-managing her review of Tea Party groups’ applications for tax-exempt status. But Hull revealed that he, too, was taking orders from up the chain of command. Hull specifically said he was told to forward documents to an adviser for embattled IRS official Lois Lerner — who first revealed the targeting of Tea Party groups and has since refused to answer lawmakers’ questions. But Hull said he was then told to send documents to the Office of Chief Counsel for their review — which is led by political appointee William Wilkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 DALLAS MORNING NEWS: IRS Scandal Creeps Closer To White House. Atlanta Journal-Constitution: IRS scandal story’s legs get sturdier. Retiring IRS lawyer implicates Obama appointee in testimony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 DALLAS MORNING NEWS: IRS Scandal Creeps Closer To White House. Very interesting article...not because he mentions how an Obama IRS appointee is directly involved in driving the IRS to silence political critics of the current administration, but because he can't find it anywhere in the newspaper for which he writes. But a countervailing view can be found in your local newspaper today. We had a story on the hearing that included not a single mention of Carter Hull or William Wilkins, the IRS chief counsel appointed by that guy in the White House. (Honestly, I can’t even find our print story on our website, but it was a slightly shorter version of this Associated Press dispatch.) Like I said, I’m stumped. It’s as if our story (the AP version) exists in a parallel universe from what would seem to be the bigger news. Perhaps this will sort itself out over the weekend. Or maybe this whole IRS thing never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 I didn’t know the IRS Chief Counsel worked out of Cincinnati. “The ‘nothing to see here’ apologists for the IRS harassment of right-wing exempt organizations have always said that nothing wrong happened, and it was the work of rogue employees in the Cincinnati hinterlands anyway. Perhaps not.” The IRS Scandal, Day 73. It's not like the entire political machine was out to destroy her or anything: Delaware officials admit tax snooping; won’t identify Christine O’Donnell as target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) We should be discussing Trayvon more, ya'll know right? Edited July 22, 2013 by jboyst62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 "An official at the center of the Internal Revenue Service’s political targeting scandal allegedly met with President Barack Obama two days before the agency drafted new guidelines for scrutinizing groups applying for tax-exempt status, according to a recent report from a conservative news site. IRS chief counsel William Wilkins was implicated by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull in recent House Oversight testimony as being one of the supervisors involved in the improper handling of applications from conservative groups. Wilkins, according to the report and the White House visitor’s log, met with the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House at around 3:54 in the afternoon on April 23, 2012. He didn’t leave until a little after 11 p.m., according to visitor records." More at: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/22/report-irs-official-at-center-of-scandal-allegedly-met-with-president-two-days-before-drafting-new-targeting-criteria/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 "An official at the center of the Internal Revenue Service's political targeting scandal allegedly met with President Barack Obama two days before the agency drafted new guidelines for scrutinizing groups applying for tax-exempt status, according to a recent report from a conservative news site. IRS chief counsel William Wilkins was implicated by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull in recent House Oversight testimony as being one of the supervisors involved in the improper handling of applications from conservative groups. Wilkins, according to the report and the White House visitor's log, met with the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House at around 3:54 in the afternoon on April 23, 2012. He didn't leave until a little after 11 p.m., according to visitor records." More at: http://www.theblaze....eting-criteria/ Mitt Romney owns a horse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayman Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Mitt Romney owns a horse A losing horse that shamed America on the national stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 A losing horse that shamed America on the national stage. Instead we got the pretty nag who had never won without being spotted several lengths, taken PED's and had it's supporters messing up it's opponents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 We should be discussing Trayvon more, ya'll know right? The man's son was murdered by a racist half-hispanic creepyass cracka, who was just wrongfully acquitted. Give him a break. That pales in comparison to pestering him about these so-called scandals and fake fox-news generated outrage. Or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 (edited) The assault on Russell George How much trouble are Obama and the Democrats in with the IRS scandal? Judging by the media inattention, not much. Dallas News editorial writer Mike Hashimoto finds evidence that something interesting might have transpired in the House Oversight Committee hearing last week, but can’t find any evidence of it in the AP story carried by his own paper. I share Hashimoto’s pain. Having stumbled onto Wolf Blitzer’s account of the doings before the committee on CNN last week, I was assured that all is well. Hashimoto declares himself stumped: “It’s as if our story (the AP version) exists in a parallel universe from what would seem to be the bigger news.” In the alternative, he speculates: “Maybe the whole IRS thing never happened.” If you get your news from the likes of the AP or CNN, both of the alternatives offered up by Hashimoto are plausible. If you caught the hearing, however, you know that Hashimoto hasn’t exhausted the possibilities. According to ranking member Elijah Cummings and his Democratic colleagues, there is indeed a scandal at the IRS — in the person of Inspector General Russell George, who cracked open the door on the the IRS Pandora’s box. Over at NRO, Eliana Johnson exposes the Democrats’ assault on George essentially as a fabrication. Cummings is complete and utter tool. The assault on George is an act of bad faith so transparent that it should make those those who are awake and alert deeply suspicious that the scandal trail leads deep within the White House. Please check out Eliana’s piece and attend to the details. http://www.powerline...sell-george.php Edited July 23, 2013 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 http://www.powerline...sell-george.php Again, the behavior tells us more than most everything else. Lashing out irrationally? Blaming the guy whose job it is to catch wrongdoing? That's like blaming the cop who pulled you over for DUI. That usually means you are guilty as charged, and are just having a hard time blaming the person who is responsible: yourself. Is this inspector incompetent? If so, where is the evidence of that? If not, then that's the end of blaming the cop for doing his job. IF Issa (but really, Sekulow) can stay focused, and disciplined, I'm approaching the thinking that says: this thing has the potential to take Obama down. If we are honest with ourselves I think we all know that. The question I have is: will Issa try to do too much? Will he, rather than only doing the job he is empowered to do, and that must be done, creep the scope of his effort to include trying to manage it towards the 2014 elections? I hope not. This is about criminal behavior, and not about trying to win poltical points. I want the criminals exposed, charged, tried and in jail by the end of the year. If that includes Obama, so be it. I know it sucks for the country, but, having him get away with it sucks worse, long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 IF Issa (but really, Sekulow) can stay focused, and disciplined, I'm approaching the thinking that says: this thing has the potential to take Obama down. "President Biden" God, I hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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