IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011

[Locutus]

IRS Sent Almost 24,000 Refunds Worth Combined $46 Million To “Unauthorized” Alien Workers All At Same Address In Atlanta, GA

Words fail.


Via Fox Nation:

The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically occupied by thousands of “unauthorized” alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds in 2011. In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year, four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax refunds to “unauthorized” aliens were in Atlanta.

The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.


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[petros]

Is the IRS the problem or is it dipsh*ts who point fingers and do SFA when their pimp Is screwing them up the dry hoop without lube?

Does it really matter whose cock is up your hoop or is your pimp's cock acceptable?

It appears you dipsh*ts like it up the hoop without lube or you'd stand up instead of bending over.

Get the f*ck off your knees and pull up your pants you Nancys.

 

[Tonington]

Are you serious? Have you been keeping up with the story?

Indeed. Though I haven't been keeping up with this thread:
IRS: Other 'inappropriate' screening of groups done

Internal Revenue Service agents in Cincinnati used additional "inappropriate" lists to flag certain tax-exempt applications for extra scrutiny, IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner Danny Werfel said Monday.

He declined to say what criteria or terms were on the additional watch lists, but congressional Democrats released a document showing that IRS agents targeted groups with "progressive" in their names. "Common thread is the word 'progressive,'" the November 2010 IRS document says. "Activities are partisan and appear as anti-Republican."

The IRS has acknowledged that the Cincinnati field office, which reviews all tax-exempt applications, used a "be on the lookout" list — or BOLO list — that included words such as "tea party" and "patriot" to determine which groups should be subject to heightened scrutiny.

Werfel said Monday that an internal IRS probe has turned up other, similar lists, which were in use by tax-exempt screeners when he took over as IRS chief at the end of May. He suggested they cast a wide net. The Associated Press said that besides ''progressive," lists used by screeners to pick groups for close examination included the terms ''Israel'' and ''Occupy.'' The AP said an investigation into why specific terms were included was underway.​

So, as I said, where's the evidence of this discrimination? It was far too early for anyone to claim that the IRS was engaging in the type of discrimination that the Canadian government had embarked on. Now that there are more details, it's clear that the alleged discrimination was merely an artifact of the reporting, and not done with a full accounting of the facts.

 

[Goober]

http://www.canada.com/news/Canada+faces+flood+heroin+addicts/3963602/story.html
WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service targeted progressive groups applying for tax-exempt status in addition to conservative ones, according to IRS documents released by congressional Democrats on Monday.

The documents and an internal IRS report being sent to congressional committees reveal that the tax agency used terms that included "progressive" and "occupy" to flag progressive organizations for extra scrutiny before the 2012 elections.

 

[Walter]

Proof the IRS Didn't Target Just Conservatives - Garance Franke-Ruta - The Atlantic


Of course, under Hoover, the FBI, the IRS, and COINTELPRO all targetted liberal groups. But right wingers defended government intrusiveness in those days. In fact, right wingers still defend government intrusiveness in Arizona and anywhere while there is driving-while-black-or-brown.

D'oh!
IRS auditor reaffirms that conservatives, not liberals, were targeted - Washington Times

 

[Locutus]

"What [Issa] said to me today was make sure to watch tomorrow's hearing because he's going to present the evidence to prove it.... That he can get it right up all the way into the White House before it was all revealed."

BOOM!… Rep. Darrell Issa Has Information That Will Link IRS Scandal ‘Into the White House’ (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

Congressman: Obama Admin Forced Benghazi Survivors To Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements…



Congressman: Benghazi Survivors Forced to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements - YouTube


Bombshell.


Via Weekly Standard:

. . . “On Tuesday I raised the question of why none of the Benghazi survivors, whether State Department, CIA, or private security contract employees have testified publicly before Congress,” said Wolf.
“According to trusted sources that have contacted my office, many if not all of the survivors of the Benghazi attacks along with others at the Department of Defense, the CIA have been asked or directed to sign additional non-disclosure agreements about their involvement in the Benghazi attacks. Some of these new NDAs, as they call them, I have been told were signed as recently as this summer.”
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[gopher]

As reported previously, the IRS targeted more than just the right wing Tea Baggers:


IRS watchdog looking into targeting of groups beyond Tea Party | Reuters


the IRS used not only conservative-sounding key words to select certain applications for extra scrutiny, but also liberal-sounding words.
"Progressive - we just learned about that recently - that that name was being used by the Internal Revenue Service," said George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), at a congressional hearing.

 

[tay]

Why Darrell Issa Turned Off the Mic






That’s why Darrell Issa’s actions on Wednesday were so shocking to House decorum. Mr. Issa, a California Republican who is chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, refused to let the panel’s ranking Democrat, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, ask any questions at a hearing about the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation of non-profit groups. Mr. Issa had been castigating a former I.R.S. official, Lois Lerner, for taking the Fifth Amendment, and when Mr. Cummings tried to take his normal turn to ask a question, Mr. Issa adjourned the meeting and cut off Mr. Cummings’ microphone.




This kind of behavior is typical of Mr. Issa, who runs his committee like a permanently angry Marine drill sergeant. Democrats held news conferences and complained on television and introduced a resolution of disapproval, which of course will go nowhere. But as Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, pointed out, this was bigger than mere rudeness.




“It’s about not hearing what you don’t want to hear,” she said.




There was a good reason Mr. Issa cut off his colleague. For months he has been on a single-minded crusade to prove the Obama administration ordered the I.R.S. to target conservative and Republican groups that spent unlimited secret money on political activity in 2012. He has accused the I.R.S. of targeting Americans for their political beliefs, a very serious charge for which he has produced not the slightest piece of evidence, clearly hoping that if he says it often enough, and loud enough, the message will sink in.


But Mr. Cummings has very effectively prevented that message from becoming accepted wisdom. He and the committee’s Democratic staff have shown that the I.R.S. didn’t just scrutinize Tea Party groups, but also groups with names that included “progressive” and “occupy.” That’s because the agency wasn’t on a political witch hunt, but was instead trying to figure out whether thousands of “social welfare” groups were abusing their tax exemptions by engaging in politics, of whatever stripe.


That undermines Mr. Issa’s narrative of aggrievement.




It shows that Mr. Issa’s endless hearings are nothing more than hyperbolic stagecraft. And it’s exactly the kind of thing that House minorities are supposed to point out when it happens. For Mr. Issa, the fear of again being exposed as a fraud was greater than his fear of being accused of trampling on minority rights. When politicians reach for the microphone switch, you know they’ve lost the argument.




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