IRS scrutinized some liberal groups
By: David Nather, Politico.com
July 22, 2013 01:58 PM EDT
After a political group in Texas asked the IRS for a tax exemption last year, it got a lengthy, time-consuming list of questions — like a request for the minutes of all the board meetings since the group got started.
And a California-based group got turned down completely in 2011, because the IRS concluded that it was set up “primarily for the benefit of a political party.”
These two stories sound like they’d fit right into the raging IRS scandal over its treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
The only difference: these two groups — Progress Texas and Emerge America — were unabashedly liberal.
POLITICO surveyed the liberal groups from an IRS list of advocacy organizations that were approved after the tougher examinations started. The review found some examples of liberal groups facing scrutiny similar to their conservative counterparts — they were asked for copies of web pages, actions alerts, and written materials from all of their events.
(More here.)
July 22, 2013 01:58 PM EDT
After a political group in Texas asked the IRS for a tax exemption last year, it got a lengthy, time-consuming list of questions — like a request for the minutes of all the board meetings since the group got started.
And a California-based group got turned down completely in 2011, because the IRS concluded that it was set up “primarily for the benefit of a political party.”
These two stories sound like they’d fit right into the raging IRS scandal over its treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
The only difference: these two groups — Progress Texas and Emerge America — were unabashedly liberal.
POLITICO surveyed the liberal groups from an IRS list of advocacy organizations that were approved after the tougher examinations started. The review found some examples of liberal groups facing scrutiny similar to their conservative counterparts — they were asked for copies of web pages, actions alerts, and written materials from all of their events.
(More here.)
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I am so tired of this blog peddling absolute bullshit, it's sickening. Liberal groups were targeted by the IRS. Would you two please get that through your heads??? Jesus H Christ.
We know from Carter Hull's testimony (Hull is a 48 year IRS veteran agent) before the House last week that conservative and Tea Party groups seeking 501c(4) tax-exempt status were set aside and processed through Lerner's office - and that of Chief Counsel William Wilkins. The bombshell was revealedy by Hull in his testimony last week and is the first time anyone has said that Wilkins' office was also involved in the re-routing to said applications.
Wilkins is one of two people appointed to the IRS by Obama and is a long-time Obama lieutenant who specialized in tax-exempt organizations as a private practice attorney. This is also why Lois Lerner pled the 5th when asked to testify before the oversight committee - because she knew Wilkins office was also involved as far back as July 2011. And if Wilkins office was involved, that is the direct link to the White House and President Obama. We know that as far back as the spring of 2010 that the re-routing of conservative and Tea Party tax-exempt applications were being re-routed through Lerner's office. Wilkins office got involved sometime around July 2011. We also know that Wilkins, Lerner and Obama met in the Roosevelt Room in April 2012, just as the news of the IRS targeting first started to enter the news. We don't know what that meeting was about, but any meeting with these three people is a dead-ringer for the fact that Obama knew exactly what was going on and and entirely likely it was a meeting to get their stories straight. It is also clear evidence that Obama himself is likely to have ordered the IRS to re-route those conservative and Tea Party applications going back to a point in time after the Citizen's United decision.
Hull was responsible for initial processing of said applications and sent them to Lerner and Wilkins. In August of 2012, after over a year not hearing anything back on these applications, Hull asked Wilkins what the status of the applications were. Wilkins told Hull the applications had been sitting around so long, they needed to be re-reviewed. In Hull's testimony he said he was 'taken aback' at this news. Wilkins' sat on these applications for over a year.
When Obama told us this past spring that he was just hearing about the IRS scandal for the first time, he was absolutely lying about that. Obama is an absolute, stinking, rotten, lying son-of-a-you-know-what. And now that we know that Wilkins' office was involved and we know Wilkins to be a highly trusted Obama lieutenant, the trail of evidence is headed right toward the Oval Office.
Oh sure, some 'liberal' groups may have recieved extra scrutiny, but the scrutiny of conservative and Tea Party groups was massive, illegal, and ordered by President Obama himself.
Stop peddlling your BS that liberal groups were targeted. They were not...and you know it.
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