"Mistakes Were Made"

[OCinBuffalo]

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Hmm.

 

It would be hilarious if this ends of following the same pattern as busting the mob. Because, busting Lois, and threatening her with hard time, could easily get her to roll over on the WH Consel's office, the WH Political office, and whoever else is involved.

 

It's also hilarious that so far? The Watergate pattern of events is also being followed. It's uncanny. The activity happens before the election, the POTUS wins, the story breaks, the initial shock happens, then settles a little, then the President has the temerity to call it nothing, then little details keep coming out, over a period of many months....

 

....that's where we are right now. The only thing that remains is for the big stuff to start dropping from the sky. Also: if I was in charge of the investigation? If I had some big stuff, I wouldn't bring it out now. I'd wait until school starts, and everybody is back from vacation, so that I maximize the effect of everybody paying attention when I rolled it out. Turns up the heat on a whole bunch of people who know something, but also know that it won't ruin their careers if they tell, and get it over with. A clear conscience is a priceless thing.

[3rdnlng]

Hmm.

 

It would be hilarious if this ends of following the same pattern as busting the mob. Because, busting Lois, and threatening her with hard time, could easily get her to roll over on the WH Consel's office, the WH Political office, and whoever else is involved.

 

It's also hilarious that so far? The Watergate pattern of events is also being followed. It's uncanny. The activity happens before the election, the POTUS wins, the story breaks, the initial shock happens, then settles a little, then the President has the temerity to call it nothing, then little details keep coming out, over a period of many months....

 

....that's where we are right now. The only thing that remains is for the big stuff to start dropping from the sky. Also: if I was in charge of the investigation? If I had some big stuff, I wouldn't bring it out now. I'd wait until school starts, and everybody is back from vacation, so that I maximize the effect of everybody paying attention when I rolled it out. Turns up the heat on a whole bunch of people who know something, but also know that it won't ruin their careers if they tell, and get it over with. A clear conscience is a priceless thing.

 

Big difference--the MSM is keeping silent.

[OCinBuffalo]

Big difference--the MSM is keeping silent.

Actually? During the little details/many months, many in the MSM during Watergate were quick to denigrate Woodward and Bernstein's work. The reason back then was: good old fashioned competition. They all jumped in once it became clear which way the needle was pointing.

 

But, yeah, I see your point, the reason today is new: indoctrination. But, even with this, you saw the MSM have to drag themselves into dealing with this.

[B-Man]

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Did The IRS Ever Stop Targeting?

 

 

 

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 99.

 

 

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WALL STREET JOURNAL: Did The IRS Ever Stop Targeting?

Yuh-huh, they did so. Obama said he stopped it. He gave a speech and everything

 

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 99.

Rodeo Clown

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[B-Man]

Ignoring the Facts on the IRS : House Democrats pretend, unconvincingly, that the agency was neutral toward tea-party groups.

 

By Eliana Johnson

 

It’s the lie that won’t die.

 

House Democrats are not backing away from their claim that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of groups applying for tax exemption was politically neutral. Representatives Elijah Cummings and Sander Levin on Tuesday hauled forth another tranche of documents that they say highlight “IRS scrutiny of progressive groups.” It is the duo’s sixth such effort, but this one, Cummings says, “should put a nail in the coffin” of the GOP’s claims that the agency’s actions were politically motivated or aimed exclusively at conservative organizations. That’s because, according to Levin, the latest papers show that IRS scrutiny “covered a broad spectrum of political ideology.” In fact, the documents show just the opposite.

 

Cummings and Levin, the ranking Democrats on the congressional committees investigating the IRS scandal, make claims that contradict the testimony of key witnesses, who have told investigators that progressive groups were not targeted. The latest is Cindy Thomas, the 35-year IRS veteran who ran the agency’s Cincinnati office during the two-year period when tea-party applications were thrown under the microscope

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[Koko78]

Ignoring the Facts on the IRS : House Democrats pretend, unconvincingly, that the agency was neutral toward tea-party groups.

 

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It is simply astounding how these idiots can continue to be so willfully stupid and intentionally ignorant.

[IDBillzFan]

It is simply astounding how these idiots can continue to be so willfully stupid and intentionally ignorant.

 

Elijah Cummings, his Democrat friends, and the MSM seem to have forgotten that the IRS specifically admitted (and apologized for) specifically going after conservative groups. It's not like someone caught the IRS and the IRS denied it.

 

The most upsetting part about this is quickly becoming how unbelievable it is that people like Elijah Cummings keep getting put back in office.

[DC Tom]

Elijah Cummings, his Democrat friends, and the MSM seem to have forgotten that the IRS specifically admitted (and apologized for) specifically going after conservative groups. It's not like someone caught the IRS and the IRS denied it.

 

The most upsetting part about this is quickly becoming how unbelievable it is that people like Elijah Cummings keep getting put back in office.

 

Not just admitted it. The IRS broke the !@#$ing story themselves.

[Luka]

It is simply astounding how these idiots can continue to be so willfully stupid and intentionally ignorant.

 

Well, the people they are speaking to wouldn't know the difference either way. That's the beauty of indoctrination. They could've literally killed everyone that was connected to the Tea Party and their voting base would've cheered, because they've been convinced that conservatives and ESPECIALLY Tea Party members are torch carrying KKK high preists.

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/23/irs-is-targeting-the-american-legion-with-audit-new-set-of-guidelines/

[Koko78]

http://dailycaller.c...-of-guidelines/

 

Interesting that requiring people to prove who they are in order to vote is bad, but forcing veterans groups who do not support the regime to turn over documents that their members are veterans is good.

[TakeYouToTasker]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/29/irs-continues-to-hound-tea-party-patriots/

 

The initial firestorm surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups may have subsided, but tea party leaders say the situation has only become worse and may lead to more lawsuits against the embattled agency.

New documents show the depth of information the IRS is seeking from Tea Party Patriots, a leading conservative group that first applied for 501©(4) tax-exempt status in late 2010 and one of many organizations singled out for extra scrutiny by the Obama administration.

 

An IRS letter sent to the group last week and obtained by The Washington Times contains a laundry list of requests related to virtually all the group’s activities, including its involvement in the 2012 election cycle and its get-out-the-vote efforts, fundraising activities, all radio and TV advertising, and other information.

 

The IRS also is asking for detailed financial records, including “the amounts and percentages of your total expenses that were for fundraising activities in the tax year 2011, 2012 and 2013.”

 

The Aug. 20 request came as a shock to Tea Party Patriots, which said it already has provided to the IRS extensive information on all of its activities and thinks it is long past time to receive a “yes” or “no” answer.

 

The letter also is proof that, while President Obama and other liberals have referred to the situation as a “phony scandal,” conservative organizations still are targets, said Cleta Mitchell, a Washington, D.C., lawyer representing the Tea Party Patriots and several other conservative groups.

 

“This is tantamount to an audit. This is the continuation of the same thing they’ve been doing for four years. They have not stopped,” she said Thursday. “Tea Party Patriots has responded to all of the requests of the IRS to date, but that has gotten us nowhere. They just keep asking more questions. We are now looking at potential legal remedies, but that’s not easy. Congress has made it quite difficult to sue the IRS.”

 

The letter, according to the IRS, is simply an attempt to gather information necessary for the agency to determine whether the Tea Party Patriots is eligible for tax-exempt status under current law. Meeting the tax-exempt criteria requires that a group’s “primary” function and activities not be political in nature.

 

Since news of the IRS targeting scandal broke this spring, the agency also argues that it has made significant progress in sifting through a backlog of groups — including the Tea Party Patriots — that have been waiting years for a decision.

As of last week, the IRS said, it has closed 64 percent of outstanding cases and approved 65 of 85 organizations for 501©(4) status.

 

But for the groups still awaiting approval, last week’s letter represents nothing more than a delaying tactic, said Jenny Beth Martin, president and co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots.

 

Reviewing information on the group’s activities in the 2012 election cycle pushes an IRS decision even farther down the road. It also raises the possibility that the organization’s future efforts, including in the upcoming 2014 political contests, also will be subject to detailed review as part of a never-ending approval process.

 

“What that letter said to me is, ‘We got away with discriminating against you and we’re not stopping.’ [The letter] comes as a complete surprise,” Ms. Martin said.

[B-Man]

http://www.washingto...party-patriots/

 

“What that letter said to me is, ‘We got away with discriminating against you and we’re not stopping.’ [The letter] comes as a complete surprise,” Ms. Martin said.

 

 

[Cinga]

Yeah, it's stopped, so they can turn the focus on veterans instead....

 

http://www.legion.org/membership/216768/new-irs-rules-legion-posts

 

The IRS now requires American Legion posts to maintain dates of service and character of service records for all members. Please review the examination procedures for auditing veterans’ organizations by

clicking here. You will have to scroll past the table of contents to reach "Veterans’ Organizations 4.76.26.

The penalty for not having the required proof of eligibility is, apparently, $1,000 per day.

[B-Man]

IRS scandal: America needs the truth

by Ken Boehm

 

CNN) -- America can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS.

 

 

The IRS mission statement pledges to "enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all."

 

But public scrutiny has revealed details indicating a level of politicization totally at odds with that.

Look at the two eye-opening developments that have happened at the IRS since May: An acting IRS commissioner resigned, and another powerful IRS official refused to answer questions before Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment.

Whatever is going on, there is only one way to proceed, and that is a professional and thorough investigation.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/03/opinion/ken-boehm-irs-scandal-investigation/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

[IDBillzFan]

IRS scandal: America needs the truth

by Ken Boehm

 

CNN) -- America can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS.

 

 

The IRS mission statement pledges to "enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all."

 

But public scrutiny has revealed details indicating a level of politicization totally at odds with that.

 

Look at the two eye-opening developments that have happened at the IRS since May: An acting IRS commissioner resigned,and another powerful IRS official refused to answer questions before Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment.

 

Whatever is going on, there is only one way to proceed, and that is a professional and thorough investigation.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t4

 

I suspect the IRS and Benghazi scandals will find new life with new, embarrassing details released by Issa around or about Oct. 2nd.

[B-Man]

WHO WILL AUDIT THE AUDITORS?

 

“The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups has revived old fears about the agency’s vast taxing and auditing powers, so easy to abuse. But the IRS isn’t alone in holding those powers. Across the country, states and municipalities have endowed thousands of revenue and audit bureaucracies with similar capabilities. Critics complain that officials use these entities to harass enemies and help allies. The evidence makes clear just how well-founded those concerns are—especially since these agencies typically receive far less scrutiny than the IRS does.”

[OCinBuffalo]

See? More little details are coming out here and there. All it takes is for one dude to panic if he thinks they are getting close to him, and the whole thing comes apart.

 

Clearly I can't say for certain what is going to happen. However, it's still a strikingly similar pattern to Watergate.

 

Nixon came out and essentially called that whole thing phony as well.

 

If CNN is still talking about it? That's a big deal. The big deal is: many reporters are fools, but, some aren't. All it takes is 1 or 2 who smell Bob Woodward status for life, and have the ability. It's a matter of time, and competence, and, if there is one decent soul who actually is "more moral" than the others. A coward would do nicely as well. I'm betting on the latter.