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

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Sorry boys and girls seems a though the House of Lies the Democratic Party and Administration is involved in is crumbling.


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

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

MAY 14, 2014

Documents also Reveal Unusual Pressure from Key Democrat Senator to Target Conservatives

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released a new batch of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents revealing that its handling of Tea Party applications was directed out of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC. The documents also show extensive pressure on the IRS by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) to shut down conservative-leaning tax-exempt organizations. The IRS’ emails by Lois Lerner detail her misleading explanations to investigators about the targeting of Tea Party organizations.

The documents came in response to an October 2013 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the agency refused to respond to four FOIA requests dating back to May 2013 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:13-cv-01559)).

One key email string from July 2012 confirms that IRS Tea Party scrutiny was directed from Washington, DC. On July 6, 2010, Holly Paz (the former Director of the IRS Rulings and Agreements Division and current Manager of Exempt Organizations Guidance) asks IRS lawyer Steven Grodnitzky “to let Cindy and Sharon know how we have been handling Tea Party applications in the last few months.” Cindy Thomas is the former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations office in Cincinnati and Sharon Camarillo was a Senior Manager in their Los Angeles office. Grodnitzky, a top lawyer in the Exempt Organization Technical unit (EOT) in Washington, DC, responds:

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The documents also show extensive pressure on the IRS by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)

As the 2012 presidential election drew nearer, Levin sent a series of letters to the IRS intensifying his campaign against predominantly conservative nonprofit groups:

September 27, 2012: Levin asks for copies of the answers to IRS exemption application question 15 – a question about planned political expenditures – from four specific groups: Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, Priorities USA, Americans for Prosperity, and Patriot Majority USA.

October 17, 2012: Miller informs Levin, “As discussed in our previous responses dated June 4, 2012, and August 24, 2012, the IRS cannot legally disclose whether the organizations on your list have applied for tax exemptions unless and until such application is approved.” Miller, however, then informs Levin that Americans for Prosperity and Patriot Majority have been approved, but the IRS has no records for Crossroads and Priorities USA.

October 23, 2012: Levin writes to again express his dissatisfaction with the IRS handling of “social welfare” (501(c)(4) organizations insisting that IRS guidance “misinterprets the law” by allowing any political activity. He again demands an answer as to whether the four organizations he listed in his previous letter were primarily engaged in the promotion of social welfare. He also seeks copies of tax exempt revocation letters sent due to c4 political activities, as well as statistics on how many c4s have been notified that they may be in violation due to political activities.

Same link as the op

[bobabode]

Why is this only being reported on TownHall.com, Fox and NewsMax?

[Rajoo]

More importantly, why is the Troll posting it here?

[Pio1980]

We covered this before, they hung the "Fuck Me" sign on themselves. Did anything come of it? No, they passed. Moving on------.

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Originally Posted by bobabode

Why is this only being reported on TownHall.com, Fox and NewsMax?

The origins of the story and emails are from Judicial Watch who sued the IRS for the relic of them.

Thats the link I provided.

As far as the sources you mention they want the truth reported. The sources you count on will probably be pressured to do so in a few days so they don't look bias.

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Originally Posted by Pio1980

We covered this before, they hung the "Fuck Me" sign on themselves. Did anything come of it? No, they passed. Moving on------.

Hard to cover some information that just came out now.

You all think that if you say something is over it is. Sorry but withheld facts and incriminating information will come to the forefront.

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Originally Posted by BeamOn

More importantly, why is the Troll posting it here?

Because it's sleazy Democratic politics

[Rajoo]

When you come to think of it, to an average guy, who is worse? Tea Party or IRS?
Congress passes tax laws, IRS collects. Now given a chance, the Tea Party wants to amend some laws, make some new laws, restrict rights, restrict funding, shut down the government, wreck the economy all in the name of patriotism. Heck, Bundy could be the next governor of Nevada. So eff that.

So I for one am glad the the IRS is watching the Tea Party groups very close. I say FUTP.

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Perhaps just a wee bit lost in your thinking and understanding of people.

You own a business right?

Would you like it say after 2016 if because your party affiliation you where harassed by government agencies?