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Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting

If the media is ignoring the story why does this article exist?

Its a blog, not exactly front page stuff (and frankly from a paper I abhor). Like Benghazi, the media has been pulled into this kicking and screaming.

One simply need ask-if this was reversed, would the media be reporting about this? The answer, is yes.
 
Im sorry, but you aren't grasping the fundamentals of this case. In this case the amount of scrutiny depended on if they were conservative, or had conservative sounding names. This isnt terribly subtle, please read up.

Sorry, it has nothing to do with ideology.
 
Opinions and wrong.

IRS, Sen. Carl Levin, And The Truth Behind Right-Wing Media's Latest Phony Conspiracy Theory | Research | Media Matters for America

Right-wing media falsely claimed that newly released documents from Judicial Watch showed that Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) pressured the IRS to target conservative groups for additional scrutiny. Levin's letters simply show that he asked the IRS to hold both Democratic and Republican groups accountable to valid tax-exempt regulations, and he made his correspondence public record more than a year ago.​

Part of your problem, is getting this info from media matters. Just maybe, this isnt the best source of info. Crazy I know.
 
Its a blog, not exactly front page stuff (and frankly from a paper I abhor). Like Benghazi, the media has been pulled into this kicking and screaming.

One simply need ask-if this was reversed, would the media be reporting about this? The answer, is yes.

I don' t take the politics of the media into account.
 
Opinions and wrong.

IRS, Sen. Carl Levin, And The Truth Behind Right-Wing Media's Latest Phony Conspiracy Theory | Research | Media Matters for America

Right-wing media falsely claimed that newly released documents from Judicial Watch showed that Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) pressured the IRS to target conservative groups for additional scrutiny. Levin's letters simply show that he asked the IRS to hold both Democratic and Republican groups accountable to valid tax-exempt regulations, and he made his correspondence public record more than a year ago.​

Try again PB. You have shown that 3 times and This one Takes care of yours with what you had missing. From Post 117. ;)


Levin, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ permanent subcommittee on investigations, wrote a March 30, 2012 letter to then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman discussing the “urgency” of the issue of possible political activity by nonprofit applicants. Levin asked if the IRS was sending out additional information requests to applicant groups and citing an IRS rejection letter to a conservative group as an example of how the IRS should be conducting its business.

A top IRS official replied that the agency could send out “individualized questions and requests.”

“Some entities claiming tax-exempt status as social welfare organizations under 26 U.S.C.&501(c)(4) appear to be engaged in political activities more appropriate for political organizations claiming tax-exempt status under 26 U.S.C.&527,” Sen. Levin wrote. “Because of the urgency of the issues involved in this matter, please provide the following information by April 20, 2012.”

Levin asked ”if it is not provided on a routine basis, approximately what percentage of such applicants receive an IRS questionnaire seeking information about any political activities, and how the IRS determines whether and when to send that questionnaire; and approximately how many days after an application is filed that questionnaire is typically sent.”

Levin cited a 1997 IRS rejection letter to the conservative group National Policy Forum, formed by former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, and asked Shulman, “Is it still the position of the IRS that a 501(c)(4) organization cannot engage in any partisan political activity, even as a secondary activity?”

As we’ve already told you, Levin wasn’t the only Democrat senator calling on the IRS to harass Tea Party groups. He was just one of the most shameless.....snip~
 
Pete ... you leave a whiff of desperation with your posts on this topic.

There's no question that various Democrat Congresspeople were scared shotless of the Tea Party and "suggested" that the IRS review their applications for tax breaks.
But you think the WH didn't know and that's your call.
It does kinda follow given they say they had no idea about the Benghazi and VA scandals among others but I'm not at all sure that's something to be proud of ... or to believe.
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Read the following news article from USA Today and give me your opinion.

Transcripts show IRS agents in Cincinnati -- not Washington -- flagged Tea Party cases

VA Scandal You bet, but it's been that way for a long time.
 
Opinions and wrong.

IRS, Sen. Carl Levin, And The Truth Behind Right-Wing Media's Latest Phony Conspiracy Theory | Research | Media Matters for America

Right-wing media falsely claimed that newly released documents from Judicial Watch showed that Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) pressured the IRS to target conservative groups for additional scrutiny. Levin's letters simply show that he asked the IRS to hold both Democratic and Republican groups accountable to valid tax-exempt regulations, and he made his correspondence public record more than a year ago.​

That's your opinion. Contrary to Obama there's more than a “smidgen” of corruption and some of it has Democrat's paw prints all over it.
 
How can democrats interfere in the investigation if the republicans are the majority on the Commitee.

Post 128.....Cummings was the Chair.

“In the fall of 2012, True the Vote received a series of letters — eight, nine, 10 page letters from Elijah Cummings out of the blue, conducting what he claimed was ‘his investigation of True the Vote,’” she continued. “Now mind you, the jurisdiction of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee is federal agencies. It is not private citizens’ groups in Houston, Texas.

Congressman Cummings sent this series of letters demanding all this material and information from True the Vote. This went on for several months, and then he would get on national TV, MSNBC of course, and before the letters had been received by True the Vote he’d be waving these letters around and that he’s conducting an investigation, which of course he has no authority under the House rules to do.”.....snip~
 
Post 128.....Cummings was the Chair.

“In the fall of 2012, True the Vote received a series of letters — eight, nine, 10 page letters from Elijah Cummings out of the blue, conducting what he claimed was ‘his investigation of True the Vote,’” she continued. “Now mind you, the jurisdiction of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee is federal agencies. It is not private citizens’ groups in Houston, Texas.

Congressman Cummings sent this series of letters demanding all this material and information from True the Vote. This went on for several months, and then he would get on national TV, MSNBC of course, and before the letters had been received by True the Vote he’d be waving these letters around and that he’s conducting an investigation, which of course he has no authority under the House rules to do.”.....snip~

do you have a video clip of his interveiws?
 
cite the passage from the article.

posting the link is not enough.
Here you go:
The following USA Today article from June 11, 2013 shows President Obama was correct when he told Bill O'Reilly on Super Bowl Sunday that there was not a "smidgen" of corruption. READ IT!

Transcripts show IRS agents in Cincinnati -- not Washington -- flagged Tea Party cases

...The Tea Party affair started with a Feb. 25, 2010 e-mail (see below) from Cincinnati-based IRS agent Jack Koester to his boss, Screening Group Manager John Shafer. Shafer, in turn, sent it to his superiors, including some Washington staff, elevating it as a "high profile case."

The Cincinnati employees weren't quite sure what the Tea Party was, but they knew it was politically sensitive. "This case will be sent to inventory for further development. Political campaigns on behalf (of) or in opposition to any political candidate do not promote social welfare," Shafer wrote to his bosses. The Tea Party groups were seeking tax exempt status as "social welfare" groups.

A few days later, Shafer came back to Muthert asking him to look up how many Tea Party cases had been received, and how many had already been approved. "He told me that Washington, D.C wanted some cases," Muthert said, according tot he transcripts.

Shafer, though, told congressional investigators that he asked for the list on his own -- not on orders from Washington. "No one said to make a search," he said.

"Based on what I saw at the time, this organization is something — I don't know what it is, but it is something that appears to be growing, some type of movement," Muthert said. "So when I was asked to research the Tea Parties, it was like OK, I understand why you would want me to look at these cases and see if there is going to be a million coming in or not."...​

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Here you go:

first scan of your link brings up this
A few days later, Shafer came back to Muthert asking him to look up how many Tea Party cases had been received, and how many had already been approved. "He told me that Washington, D.C wanted some cases," Muthert said, according tot he transcripts.
 
Truth is somthing that requires evidence.

If this scandel really involves the White House ordering this, it needs evidence of motive.

You'll get it if a special prosecutor is ordered as it should be.
 
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