Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups

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Issa tried really hard to manipulate everyone. Just like any bullshit it starts to smell

Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups | The Raw Story

A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators “narrowly focus on tea party organizations.”

Here is the quote directly from the Hill:

The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.


Read more: IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request - The Hill's On The Money
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And then there is even the article from Bloomberg:
IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row - Bloomberg

One of those groups, Emerge America, saw its tax-exempt status denied, forcing it to disclose its donors and pay some taxes. None of the Republican groups have said their applications were rejected.

Progress Texas, another of the organizations, faced the same lines of questioning as the Tea Party groups from the same IRS office that issued letters to the Republican-friendly applicants. A third group, Clean Elections Texas, which supports public funding of campaigns, also received IRS inquiries.

But at the end of the day, Everyone, the Inspector, the Testimony, the articles, newspapers and reporters are all wrong. The need to play the victim is so strong that Republicans will ignore every link, every story because the feeling of being victimized is more important than the truth. I included 3 links but because repubs don't read they will complain about Rawstory like Pavlovs dog

 

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This is...is...is....so shocking!!!!!

 

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Only to those that don't read

 

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Well, since the IRS narrowly focused on tea Party groups, this would seem appropriate.

 

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Only to those that don't read

Ooof. LOL

 

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Well, since the IRS narrowly focused on tea Party groups, this would seem appropriate.

only, they didnt

 

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Well, since the IRS narrowly focused on tea Party groups, this would seem appropriate.

They did?

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

YOU say we were duped, but how do we really know. Sure, you rely upon MSM to tell you that the possibly criminal IRS targeted liberal groups too, but perhaps they're just changing the facts to protect their Lord and Master Hussien Obama ... have you ever thought of that? Notice how CONVIENTLY they waited until the POTENTIALLY IMPEACHABLE Non-citizen potus was out of the country .... in Africa of course ... where he cannot be interrogated.

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

YOU say we were duped, but how do we really know. Sure, you rely upon MSM to tell you that the possibly criminal IRS targeted liberal groups too, but perhaps they're just changing the facts to protect their Lord and Master Hussien Obama ... have you ever thought of that? Notice how CONVIENTLY they waited until the POTENTIALLY IMPEACHABLE Non-citizen potus was out of the country .... in Africa of course ... where he cannot be interrogated.

You know because Repubs said they were on an enemies list until it was found that Liberal groups were on there too. Repubs said that Obama was targeting them when the IRS guy Is a Repub. You know because Issa withheld the part of the report that shows liberals were targeted. You know because now Repubs have dropped the "enemies list" meme and now have shifted to an argument of "The number of Repubs targeted don't exactly match the number of liberal groups that were targeted unless the same number of both were targeted we still are victims"

See how now the argument is sooooo much more narrow than before? That's because the initial assessment was bullshit so they switched

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

YOU say we were duped, but how do we really know. Sure, you rely upon MSM to tell you that the possibly criminal IRS targeted liberal groups too, but perhaps they're just changing the facts to protect their Lord and Master Hussien Obama ... have you ever thought of that? Notice how CONVIENTLY they waited until the POTENTIALLY IMPEACHABLE Non-citizen potus was out of the country .... in Africa of course ... where he cannot be interrogated.

You know because Repubs said they were on an enemies list until it was found that Liberal groups were on there too. Repubs said that Obama was targeting them when the IRS guy Is a Repub. You know because Issa withheld the part of the report that shows liberals were targeted. You know because now Repubs have dropped the "enemies list" meme and now have shifted to an argument of "The number of Repubs targeted don't exactly match the number of liberal groups that were targeted unless the same number of both were targeted we still are victims"

See how now the argument is sooooo much more narrow than before? That's because the initial assessment was bullshit so they switched

Of course. However, Obama is left with a number, even a maj, of people suspecting there was some WH led conspiracy. LBJ used the same paint brush. Nixon really did have an enemies list. But since then, we got a bit more civil. In contragate, a prosecutor went wild, but the dems were very uncomfortable with the whole thing. Reagan's policies were popullar, in the main, after the fact, but he was a decent man. Rove would destroy people who didn't get on board, but W didn't go this far.

The pols and media who play on fear have taken us back to a bad place. I don't think it has any effect. Obama got his tax rate hike on the rich, not that this really means they pay higher taxes, but it was a bone to his base. Not much "change' is gonna happen for a few years.

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

That!

 

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Issa tried really hard to manipulate everyone. Just like any bullshit it starts to smell

Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups | The Raw Story

A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators “narrowly focus on tea party organizations.”

Here is the quote directly from the Hill:

The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.


Read more: IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request - The Hill's On The Money
Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

And then there is even the article from Bloomberg:
IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row - Bloomberg

One of those groups, Emerge America, saw its tax-exempt status denied, forcing it to disclose its donors and pay some taxes. None of the Republican groups have said their applications were rejected.

Progress Texas, another of the organizations, faced the same lines of questioning as the Tea Party groups from the same IRS office that issued letters to the Republican-friendly applicants. A third group, Clean Elections Texas, which supports public funding of campaigns, also received IRS inquiries.

But at the end of the day, Everyone, the Inspector, the Testimony, the articles, newspapers and reporters are all wrong. The need to play the victim is so strong that Republicans will ignore every link, every story because the feeling of being victimized is more important than the truth. I included 3 links but because repubs don't read they will complain about Rawstory like Pavlovs dog

And? Did they actually listen, or did they do their job correctly and find all 6 of the times that the IRS gave extra scrutiny to left leaning groups?

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

I expect politicians to lie, which is why I am always surprised when I find one that tells the truth.

 

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The report identified 298 groups that were subjected to additional scrutiny, and identified 98 of those groups as either tea party, patriot or 9/12 groups. The remaining 202 groups were labelled as “other.” During congressional hearings, George was repeatedly asked if these 202 “other” groups included liberal organizations. He said he couldn’t “make that determination” based on the available evidence. However, several liberal groups received the same level of IRS scrutiny as tea party groups.

I would be very interested to see how those other 202 groups were labeled.

 

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assuming true, narrowly focus, does not mean ignore

another CC thread down the drain

 

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Seriously doesn't something click in the Repubs head that angers them for being lied to or does their hatred for liberals override being dupped

How many on the left who still believe a video was responsible for Benghazi have flipped that switch on in their head or does their blind devotion to Obama prevent that?

 

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assuming true, narrowly focus, does not mean ignore

another CC thread down the drain

So what does it mean? You forgot that part

 

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The report identified 298 groups that were subjected to additional scrutiny, and identified 98 of those groups as either tea party, patriot or 9/12 groups. The remaining 202 groups were labelled as “other.” During congressional hearings, George was repeatedly asked if these 202 “other” groups included liberal organizations. He said he couldn’t “make that determination” based on the available evidence. However, several liberal groups received the same level of IRS scrutiny as tea party groups.

I would be very interested to see how those other 202 groups were labeled.

Lies are still lies.

 

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Interesting pile of shit story you have there..

IRS Inspector General: Liberal Groups Weren't Inappropriately Targeted - Guy Benson

IRS Inspector General: Liberal Groups Weren't Inappropriately Targeted

Reports that some IRS 'BOLO' included terms like "progressive" and "occupy" touched off celebrations on the Left. See? This wasn't aimed at conservatives -- those nutty paranoiacs! The IRS just needs to tweak its procedures, and we can all move on. No scandal here, America. We explained in detail why that emerging narrative was a load of nonsense, based on piles of relevant evidence and a thorough report from Eliana Johnson. Today, the IRS Inspector General re-confirms the obvious truth, obliterating the Left's shiny, new, and perfidious talking point:

Liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status faced less IRS scrutiny than Tea Party groups, according to the Treasury inspector general. Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, told Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) in a letter dated Wednesday that the IRS did not use inappropriate criteria to scrutinize groups with “progressives” in their name seeking tax-exempt status. “Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the ‘progressives’ identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012,” George wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. The inspector general also stressed that 100 percent of the groups with “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12” in their name were flagged for extra attention.

“While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of Tea Party and other related criteria we described in our report, including employee interviews, emails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that ‘progressives’ was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention,” George wrote to Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. George and his office have faced criticism in recent days after it emerged that its audit was tasked with looking into merely whether conservative groups faced tough IRS scrutiny. Documents released this week showed other groups — including liberal and non-partisan organizations — also received scrutiny from the IRS, and Democrats have suggested this wasn't noted in the ensuing scandal because of the IG's focus on conservative groups. George insisted that his office did not limit its audit to Tea Party groups.

The IG's full letter can be accessed HERE. In response to House Oversight Committee Democrats' dissembling and misdirection, Chairman Darrell Issa issued a blistering statement decrying his colleagues for deliberately muddying the waters in a partisan attempt to "derail" the IRS investigation:

“Both the Ways and Means and Oversight Committees are methodically working through an investigation following up on the IG audit. Our Democratic colleagues should stop trying to derail the investigation by defending IRS officials with distorted claims equating the systematic scrutiny of Tea Party groups with the more routine screening progressive groups received,” said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell lssa, R-Calif. “As TIGTA notes, Tea Party groups and progressive groups were treated very differently by the IRS. Ranking Member Cummings and Ranking Member Levin need to join us in this investigation and not look for every excuse to just say the case is solved and Congress should move on.”

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