New Documents Show IRS HQ Tea Party Targeting

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

“These new documents show that officials in the IRS headquarters were responsible for the illegal delays of Tea Party applications,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is disturbing to see Lois Lerner mislead the IRS’ internal investigators about her office’s Tea Party targeting. These documents also confirm the unprecedented pressure from congressional Democrats to go after President Obama’s political opponents. The IRS scandal has now ensnared Congress.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r...rty-targeting/

[Jermyn Davidson]

What if these groups were being targetted because it was believed that these groups were potentially not spending their funds the way they were supposed to?

Still I'd rather see my party take this scandal for all of the political points it can get as opposed to Benghazi-- our party is acting in poor taste for the sake of political gain when it comes to Benghazi.

But maybe not when it comes to the IRS.
If it can be proven that the profiling happened as a directive from IRS HQ's in DC, it's not much more of a stretch to involve the White House-- but the proof of White House involvement is yet to be proven.

[n david]

"our party."

[n david]

The emails obtained by Judicial Watch clearly demonstrate that the targeting was based in Washington, D.C.

IRS official Holly Paz wrote a July 6, 2010 email to Washington-based IRS lawyer Steven Grodnitzky “to let Cindy and Sharon know how we have been handling Tea Party applications in the last few months.” Grodnitzky replied to the email, confirming that the Washington-based Exempt Organization Technical unit (EOT) was designing the targeting in the nation’s capital.

“EOT is working the Tea party applications in coordination with Cincy. We are developing a few applications here in DC and providing copies of our development letters with the agent to use as examples in the development of their cases,” Grodnitzky wrote.

“Chip Hull [another lawyer in IRS headquarters] is working these cases in EOT and working with the agent in Cincy, so any communication should include him as well. Because the Tea party applications are the subject of an SCR [Sensitive Case Report], we cannot resolve any of the cases without coordinating with Rob,” Grodnitzky wrote.

“Rob” is believed to be then-IRS director of rulings and agreements Rob Choi, who was based at the agency’s Washington headquarters, according to Judicial Watch.

There's a reason Lois Lerner tried claiming her 5th Amendment right, then promptly resigned from office. She lied again and again when she blamed some "rogue" employees in Cincinnati for the targeting. These emails obtained by Judicial Watch show Lerner's a liar, as are several others in the IRS.

Obama's dumb, but I doubt he's so stupid that he would directly order the targeting. WH log does show the IRS Director was constantly at the WH -- in fact, the IRS Director was logged there more than Holder or any other Cabinet member. Still, I couldn't imagine Obama making the order. More than likely, the order came from someone else in the WH.

Hopefully there's an investigation to see whether Carl Levin or other Democrats broke any rules or law by pressuring the IRS to investigate certain conservative groups.

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.

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Originally Posted by n david

There's a reason Lois Lerner tried claiming her 5th Amendment right, then promptly resigned from office. She lied again and again when she blamed some "rogue" employees in Cincinnati for the targeting. These emails obtained by Judicial Watch show Lerner's a liar, as are several others in the IRS.

Obama's dumb, but I doubt he's so stupid that he would directly order the targeting. WH log does show the IRS Director was constantly at the WH -- in fact, the IRS Director was logged there more than Holder or any other Cabinet member. Still, I couldn't imagine Obama making the order. More than likely, the order came from someone else in the WH.

Hopefully there's an investigation to see whether Carl Levin or other Democrats broke any rules or law by pressuring the IRS to investigate certain conservative groups.

There was extreme paranoia that Romney would lose the election. I see that same paranoia of losing was with the democrats as well - and they did something about it. I don't for one minute believe that Obama was NOT involved. He is extremely calculated with his political maneuvering.

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You know what else I believe, David? I believe that the Professor Gates incident, Trayvon Martin, racial undertones by Holder et al, have all been a set up to hide all of these issues under the race card if they needed to weasel their way out of any dishonest thing they have done.

[Light]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

You know what else I believe, David? I believe that the Professor Gates incident, Trayvon Martin, racial undertones by Holder et al, have all been a set up to hide all of these issues under the race card if they needed to weasel their way out of any dishonest thing they have done.

Their coming to get me!! Their coming to get me!! Their taking me away!!
You sound just like the Texan who said those famous words.
Do you ever remove your tinfoil hat??

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Light

Their coming to get me!! Their coming to get me!! Their taking me away!!
You sound just like the Texan who said those famous words.
Do you ever remove your tinfoil hat??

Do you ever hear Eric Holder talk? Do you ever remove the plugs from your ears?

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Originally Posted by Light

Their (They're) coming to get me!! Their (They're) coming to get me!! Their (They're) taking me away!!

Don't forget to write....

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Originally Posted by Originalist

Do you ever hear Eric Holder talk? Do you ever remove the plugs from your ears?

You'd have to be wearing plugs to miss the racial undertones of this current Administration. And I wonder at O's friend, JayZ, being seen wearing his Five Percent Nation medallion. The core tenant of that belief is that white people are inferior to black men who hold the power of God. Simply a nation of Islam offshoot.