Proof: Obama's IRS deliberately targeted Tea Party groups

[Mountain Man]

Source: Stunning Confirmation: Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Showing McCain Staff Urging IRS To Target Tea Party Groups�

https://theconservativetreehouse.com...-party-groups/

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Follow the link for a deep-dive analysis of this entire scandal, including the fact that Lerner quietly hand-delivered 21 CD-ROMs worth of private citizens' personal data to then Attorney General Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder.

And before any of you liberals say it, you would have to be a moron to believe that Obama was ignorant of all of this.

[demi-conservative]

you would have to be a moron to believe that Obama was ignorant of all of this.

They believe 'scandal free'.

[rogue06]

Source: Stunning Confirmation: Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Showing McCain Staff Urging IRS To Target Tea Party Groups�

https://theconservativetreehouse.com...-party-groups/

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Follow the link for a deep-dive analysis of this entire scandal, including the fact that Lerner quietly hand-delivered 21 CD-ROMs worth of private citizens' personal data to then Attorney General Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder.

And before any of you liberals say it, you would have to be a moron to believe that Obama was ignorant of all of this.

Considering that the IRS even apologized for targeting them why is this a surprise?

From that bastion of conservatism, NPR:

Source: IRS Apologizes For Aggressive Scrutiny Of Conservative Groups

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And back in 2013 the IRS director of tax exempt organizations, Lois Lerner (before she started invoking the Fifth Amendment's right to avoid incriminating herself) apologized for the IRS's targeting of conservative groups prior to the 2012 elections. Of course she tried to palm it off as only being done by low-level employees in a field office in Cincinnati but the Washington Post discovered that this was false and that IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups. As more details emerged it became increasingly clear that it was national in scope.

The IRS went after conservative groups (particularly those with "Tea Party," "patriot," "9/12" and the like as part of their name^[1]) either delaying their applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exemption status (only 4 of something like 400 groups were approved between April 2010 and April 2012), using intimidation tactics like demanding the names of their donors, contributors, and grantors (a great way of drying up funding) and releasing confidential information about conservative groups to third parties. Not surprisingly later an Inspector General found that such questions were entirely inappropriate.

One conservative organization which had applied to the IRS for for 501(c)(4) tax-exemption status had figured out what was going on after they received no response from the IRS after waiting 16 months. So they withdrew their application and changed their name into what they figured was a "liberal-sounding name" ("Greenhouse Solutions"), reapplied and were approved in three weeks.

In the end the IRS admitted that they had targeted conservative groups for intrusive scrutiny and apologized but insisted that nothing criminal had been done^[2].

Oh, I should note that liberals have sought to dismiss this sordid affair because a hand full of liberal groups had also been subject to additional IRS scrutiny but it was at a far lower rate than conservative groups and more importantly analysis revealed that most of it took place after people started becoming aware of what they were doing. IOW, after their antics were being made public the IRS quickly added some liberal groups to soften perceptions of political bias. Still, even after that ploy 83% of those targeted were conservative.

Moreover, an examination of IRS's original "Be On The Lookout" (BOLO) list revealed that IRS screeners were instructed to treat liberal groups differently from conservative groups. For example liberal groups could be approved on the spot by line agents whereas conservative groups had to be sent up to IRS higher-ups for further scrutiny.








1. a 2013 report released by the IRS Inspector General showed that a full 100% of groups with "Tea Party," "patriot" or "9/12" in their names had been targeted.

2. James Comey said that was his conclusion as well. One must wonder if he reached that conclusion prior to examining the evidence like he did with the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal.

[Mountain Man]

This is where it gets interesting: It seems that the same McCain staffer who was suggesting how to weaponize the IRS against the Tea Party, is the same guy who was in charge of the investigation into the political weaponization of the IRS.