re: Obama Justice Department Was Involved In IRS Targeting

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ere is a Senator Whitehouse???

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The fact that Lerner is the head of the division and she clearly has no idea about penalties or privacy concerns in dealing with her work is what is truly amazing.

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Thank you for the answer. But that seems to be squarely in the IRS's court. The DOJ talking about an investigation with the IRS is something that you would expect on the surface.

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"The complaint says the senators interfered with executive branch agency proceeding, misused official resources for campaign purposes, gave at least the appearance of impropriety, and engaged in conduct that might reflect poorly on the Senate.

“All of these actions appear to have been undertaken for electoral, rather than official purposes – Sens. Durbin and Schumer, in particular, have openly stated as much,” the complaint says. “Additionally, Sen. Levin’s repeated requests for information, after being explicitly informed that the information could not lawfully be disclosed, violate Paragraph 2 of the Code of Ethics for U.S. Government Service. We request that the Committee, in accordance with its mandate, investigate each violation accordingly and impose appropriate sanctions.”

The complaint states that in 2010 after the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, and after Democrats failed to pass further campaign finance restrictions in the Senate, President Barack Obama talked about groups that “pose as non-for-profit, social welfare and trade groups,” and “[e]very single one of them, virtually, is guided by seasoned, Republican political operatives.”

“Within days, a member of the United States Senate abused his office to advance his political party’s midterm election campaign efforts by using official resources to pressure the Internal Revenue Service to investigate certain conservative organizations that Democrats had not been able to silence with legislation,” the complaint says

Levin, the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, had 14 correspondence to and from IRS officials from March 2012 to March 2013, where he urged the IRS to probe the nonprofit groups.

In the closing weeks of the 2010 midterm election, Durbin wrote then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman complaining that “one organization whose activities appear to be inconsistent with its tax status is Crossroads GPS,” the conservative organization affiliated with former Bush White House advisor Karl Rove.

Durbin’s office issued a press release that called for the “IRS to investigating spending by Crossroads GPS.” The House Oversight Committee found that IRS official Joseph Urban circulated the Durbin press release within the agency. The other senators – Schumer, Bennet, Franken, Merkley, Shaheen, Udall and Whitehouse – co-signed letters to Shulman on Feb. 16, 2012 and again on March 12, 2012, demanding action against Crossroads GPS."

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Posted by mmcgrath

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I think she was placed at her position by The Administration precisely because she was ideologically hostile

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This administration sought nothing less than the destruction of various "Tea Party" groups. It did it by peddling a false Narrative to "friendly" media, leaking information to "friendly" media and finally by ILLEGALLY targeting through GOVERNMENT COERCION, those who opposed it.

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I think she was placed at her position by The Administration precisely because she was ideologically hostile (proven by her emails) and ethically vacuous. And then once there, directed by The Administration to gum things up for the Administrations' political enemies (again-this is already proven) prior to the elections.

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nothing will come of this because of one thing: the race card!

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That is about as much a "fact" as are assertions

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