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Spin spin spin spin..
you lefties are in full blown panic mode!
Love it.
Other than your obvious political bias, do you have probative evidence of intent on the part of any IRA employee? If so name them.
If not, you've provided more evidence to convince the reader you're a partisan hack who has nothing substantive to offer.
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
Nice article. Thanks.
There is no telling IF there is anything. It is a witch hunt. If you go after any successful politician long enough, you will find some dirt. America needs a lot of work, and the right is wasting too much time going after the negro.
An investigation into crimes is not a witch hunt.
Wasting time chasing the President instead of working to get the country back on its' feet is a witch hunt.
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
If you believe nobody was targeted for political reasons you are a fucking moron and/or just a lying tool for your political party. You people have shown us all just how truly pathetic you are by defending the indefensible.
I'm not convinced that they were targeted for political reasons.
Maybe they were, I don't know. But thus far, we don't have much suggesting that they were.
If there is, please post it.
An investigation into crimes is not a witch hunt.
Wasting time chasing the President instead of working to get the country back on its' feet is a witch hunt.
So you dont think malfeasance in office demands an investigation to know exactly what happened, why, and how this can be prevented in the future?
Wow. North Korea called. They want their fascist back.
Wasting time chasing the President instead of working to get the country back on its' feet is a witch hunt.
So you dont think malfeasance in office demands an investigation to know exactly what happened, why, and how this can be prevented in the future?
Wow. North Korea called. They want their fascist back.
Do not try to make it look like the right is not out to lynch the President, that bullshit does not play.
If you believe nobody was targeted for political reasons you are a fucking moron and/or just a lying tool for your political party. You people have shown us all just how truly pathetic you are by defending the indefensible.
I'm not convinced that they were targeted for political reasons.
Maybe they were, I don't know. But thus far, we don't have much suggesting that they were.
If there is, please post it.
Rky? I thought you were smarter than that.
Almost all the orgs singled out for special scrutiny had names suggestive of conservativism. The guidelines issued specified things that are associated with conservatives. Conservatives who were prominent contributors to political groups suddenly found themselves and their businesses audited, even where they hadn't been audited in 30 years. Or ever.
and none of that suggests there were political reasons? Seriously?
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
THOSE were the scandals? Color me underwhelmed :yawn:
I'm not convinced that they were targeted for political reasons.
Maybe they were, I don't know. But thus far, we don't have much suggesting that they were.
If there is, please post it.
Rky? I thought you were smarter than that.
Almost all the orgs singled out for special scrutiny had names suggestive of conservativism. The guidelines issued specified things that are associated with conservatives. Conservatives who were prominent contributors to political groups suddenly found themselves and their businesses audited, even where they hadn't been audited in 30 years. Or ever.
and none of that suggests there were political reasons? Seriously?
Yeah, it could be. I don't know.
But I do know how a process like this could get totally blown out of proportion. I've seen it from the inside multiple times where the press and political interests run with what looks bad but their conclusions are totally and completely wrong. Eventually, the truth comes out but not before there is a frenzied fog of people jumping to erroneous conclusions.
“I do not believe partisanship motivated the actions”—of the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was “foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection.” Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the “short cut” of looking for words like “Tea Party” and “patriots” in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically “targeted” conservative groups. “There was no targeting because there was no intent,” Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had “Tea Party” or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Miller’s story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. “We did not,” George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
http://www.foxnews.com/index.htmlA detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official's claim that the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonprofit applications, showing the practice started well before the forms started flooding in.
The piece in The Washington Post disputed a central claim that Lois Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, and other IRS officials made as they admitted to targeting conservative groups for additional scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status.
Lerner claimed they did so in response to a "very big uptick" between 2010 and 2012 in the number of applications for a status known as 501(c)(4).
Indeed, there was an uptick recorded in that time period. But, as the Post wrote, "it was relatively small."
"The real jump did not come until 2011, long after the targeting of conservative groups had been implemented," the Post wrote.
So you dont think malfeasance in office demands an investigation to know exactly what happened, why, and how this can be prevented in the future?
Wow. North Korea called. They want their fascist back.
Do not try to make it look like the right is not out to lynch the President, that bullshit does not play.
Translation: Do not confuse me with facts and logic. I know this is only rightwing fantasy. There was never a Benghazi. There was never a Justice Dept seizure of AP records. There was never an IRS investgiation. Can't be!
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
Nice pile of bullshit you've accumulated here. Really nice.
Its a Repub fishing expedition 
Rky? I thought you were smarter than that.
Almost all the orgs singled out for special scrutiny had names suggestive of conservativism. The guidelines issued specified things that are associated with conservatives. Conservatives who were prominent contributors to political groups suddenly found themselves and their businesses audited, even where they hadn't been audited in 30 years. Or ever.
and none of that suggests there were political reasons? Seriously?
Yeah, it could be. I don't know.
But I do know how a process like this could get totally blown out of proportion. I've seen it from the inside multiple times where the press and political interests run with what looks bad but their conclusions are totally and completely wrong. Eventually, the truth comes out but not before there is a frenzied fog of people jumping to erroneous conclusions.
Yes. When it happens to a half dozen people it could be pure coincidence - the way the mop flopped that year or whatever. But when it happens to hundreds of people/groups with conservative credentials or because of specific key words - "tea party", "patriotism", "constitution", "conservative" and it ISN'T happening to progressive people or groups, any normal person would have to smell a rat.
