Obama's IRS targeted almost 500 conservative groups

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Three years after the IRS admitted officials singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the tax-collecting agency has released a near-complete list of the organizations targeted.

And it numbers in the hundreds — for the first time showing the extent to which the agency slow-walked applications for tax-exempt status.

The new list shows a total of 426 organizations, far higher than what the Treasury Department’s inspector general believed there to be in May 2013, when he identified 298 groups.

The names span the gamut, covering well-known groups like Tea Party Patriots but also lower-profile local outfits like the Louisiana Campaign for Liberty, Patriots of Charleston, the Asheville Tea Party, Inc. and many more.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ed-in-scandal-3-years-later.html?intcmp=hpbt1

Will liberals claim this is a faux scandal?
 
Seahawk said:
Three years after the IRS admitted officials singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the tax-collecting agency has released a near-complete list of the organizations targeted.

And it numbers in the hundreds — for the first time showing the extent to which the agency slow-walked applications for tax-exempt status.

The new list shows a total of 426 organizations, far higher than what the Treasury Department’s inspector general believed there to be in May 2013, when he identified 298 groups.

The names span the gamut, covering well-known groups like Tea Party Patriots but also lower-profile local outfits like the Louisiana Campaign for Liberty, Patriots of Charleston, the Asheville Tea Party, Inc. and many more.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ed-in-scandal-3-years-later.html?intcmp=hpbt1

Will liberals claim this is a faux scandal?
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You'll see it again should Hillary be elected.

All you have to do is lie and deny to get away with things.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Where's the complete list?
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More than three years after it admitted to targeting tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, the IRS has finally released a near-complete list of the organizations it snagged in a political dragnet.

The tax agency filed the list last month as part of a court case after a series of federal judges, fed up with what they said was the agency’s stonewalling, ordered it to get a move on. The case is a class-action lawsuit, so the list of names is critical to knowing the scope of those who would have a claim against the IRS.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/5/irs-reveals-list-of-tea-party-groups-targeted-for-/
 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...groups-targeted-in-scandal-3-years-later.html
The new list shows a total of 426 organizations, far higher than what the Treasury Department’s inspector general believed there to be in May 2013, when he identified 298 groups.

The names span the gamut, covering well-known groups like Tea Party Patriots but also lower-profile local outfits like the Louisiana Campaign for Liberty, Patriots of Charleston, the Asheville Tea Party, Inc. and many more.

The Washington Times first reported on the list, which the IRS filed last month after being prodded by federal judges. The document was produced as part of a class-action lawsuit being led by Tea Party groups.

According to the Times, 60 of the groups' names contained the word “tea,” 33 contained the word “patriot,” eight used the word “Constitution” and 26 others had the word “liberty” in the title.

Regardless of the backstory, a federal judge earlier this year scolded the IRS for allegedly holding up requests for information.

“The lawsuit has progressed as slowly as the underlying applications themselves: at every turn the IRS has resisted the plaintiffs’ requests for information regarding the IRS’s treatment of the plaintiff class, eventually to the open frustration of the district court,” Circuit Court Judge Raymond Kethledge said in a March ruling.

“Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen—Republican or Democrat, socialist or libertarian—should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds,” Kethledge said
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the danger of the arrogance of power by an executive cannot be minimized.
POTUS/executive are in complete control of enforcement and regulatory agencies.

a thumb on the scale here and there leads to great damage to we the people
 
Seahawk said:
Zappas always demands proof and stuff when he doesn't agree with the facts.

:rofl2:
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But we can't determine the facts until we see the complete list.

Right now all we've got is another partisan Op-ed piece from the...ROFL...Washington TIMES!

No partisan bias there, eh Yurt?
 
ZappasGuitar said:
But we can't determine the facts until we see the complete list.

Right now all we've got is another partisan Op-ed piece from the...ROFL...Washington TIMES!

No partisan bias there, eh Yurt?
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Wait, you're calling someone out for using a biased source?
 
ZappasGuitar said:
My apologies.

I forgot only sanctimonious Righties like Y-O-U who get to do that.
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El Oh El. I'm laughing at you who posts from rawstory, think Progess and other left wing sites basically exclusively calling someone else out. Feel free to call me out next time I post from The Econonist, CNBC or the WSJ.

You ever crtiticize a liberal Zap?
 
only the Washington Times is covering it as far as I can see. Even though this is about ABUSE OF POWER.
I'll leave it to the reader to ascertain why this is.
 
By the way, Zappas is wrong, the article reported the fact, not opinion, that the IRS filed the list with the court.

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Seahawk said:
By the way, Zappas is wrong, the article reported the fact, not opinion, that the IRS filed the list with the court.

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Yet they couldn't be bothered to include the entire list.

And as I said earlier:

We can't know all the facts until the COMPLETE LIST is published.
 
The government released names of 426 organizations. Another 40 were not released as part of the list because they had already opted out of being part of the class-action suit.

That total is much higher than the 298 groups the IRS‘ inspector general identified back in May 2013, when investigators first revealed the agency had been subjecting applications to long — potentially illegal — delays, and forcing them to answer intrusive questions about their activities. Tea party and conservative groups said they was the target of unusually heavy investigations and longer delays,

Edward D. Greim, the lawyer who’s pursuing the case on behalf of NorCal Tea Party Patriots and other members of the class, said the list also could have ballooned toward the end of the targeting as the IRS, once it knew it was being investigated, snagged more liberal groups in its operations to try to soften perceptions of political bias.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/5/irs-reveals-list-of-tea-party-groups-targeted-for-/
 
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