AND THE BEAT GOES ON, IRS TARGETING CONTINUES RIGHT NOW

IRS TARGETING OF TEA PARTY AND CONSERVATIVES CONTINUES

AND THE BEAT GOES ON!

2010 - OBAMA ADMINISTRATION VOWED TO "PUNISH" ENEMIES, AND SO IT CAME TO PASS

In 2010 Obama made this statement to roaring crowds. "We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends."  Valerie Jarrett, longtime senior Obama advisor, Queen of the White House, said it like this.  “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us, and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay.”  Ah, Obama and Valerie, you looked into your crystal balls and told us what the IRS and your other henchmen had in store for us, the lowly, uninformed, unprepared, helpless-against-you American public.  You are such a predictor of the future.

Still think Obama and his stooges didn't know what the IRS, EPA, OSHA, ATF, FBI and a host of other Obama departments were doing when they "targeted" Tea Party, Conservative and Religious groups?   Pull your head out of the sand.  They TOLD US what the intended to do, in their own words.  I predict that Obama's "punish our enemies and reward our friends" approach to governing will be the sad, pathetic legacy of the Obama presidency.  He will go down in history as the first "Black" president.  Rah, Rah.  But he will also go down in history as the "Worst Most Divisive" president ever.

HERE'S THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER

IRS OFFICIAL SIGNED LETTERS THAT TARGETED TEA PARTY

IRS OFFICIAL, LERNER, SIGNED TEA PARTY TARGET LETTERS.  Lerner refused to testify before Congress citing her 5th Amendment rights.  What about the rights of the Americans she went after like a pit bull?  She's on administrative leave, still earning her very large salary and full benefit package.  No guts Obama should fire her on the spot.

FOX NEWS HAS THE STORY

IRS AUDIT FROM HELL

I found this and thought you'd like to read it.  This is just one example of what the IRS did to Conservatives and Tea Party participants. Talk about stealing an election, the actions of the IRS and Justice Department stifled thousands of potential voters who may have decided to stay home rather than cross a governmental agency.  It's called FEAR of your government.   

The IRS Audit From Hell
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on May 21, 2013

From prominent election lawyer Cleta Mitchell comes the disgusting detail with which the Internal Revenue Service hounded conservative groups -- they demanded so much information it constituted a deliberately crippling workload.

Mitchell noted that prior to 2010, the scrutiny of (c)(3) and (c)(4) applications was brief and non-intrusive. She reprinted a typical questionnaire to one of her clients in 2009, asking for little more than an update on its articles of incorporation. Mitchell says that before 2010, applications for (c)(3)s took 3-12 months, and for (c)(4)s, usually only 3-6 months.

Then, in 2010, it all changed.

To show how impossible compliance with the document requests was -- and is -- for would-be (c)(4)s and (c)(3)s, she submitted actual questionnaires sent to her clients during 2011 and 2012 as they sought tax exempt status, for comparison.

The IRS asked one client seeking a (c)(4) designation 124 separate questions. This client first applied in September 2010, and its application is still pending. Just some of the information the IRS requests includes the client's planned activities for the coming year, and the nature and extent of its lobbying and staff time, and copies of brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, fliers, advertisements and any literature it's issued; whether it will conduct rallies for or against any public legislation or candidates, including the time and location of each rally, a copy of each handout involved, the names of people in the organization involved and their compensation for and time spent on the rallies, as well as the percent of the organization's time will be spent on the events and the total expense; whether it will offer classes, workshops or lectures, and if so, the topics, including a sample of materials used, and information on how fees will be determined, how many staff will be allocated, and whether honoraria will be paid.

The list continues: The IRS wants to know who selects materials for the client's website, on what criteria, whether it is free, whether it is copyrighted, who controls the data, whether the site sells ads or products online, its annual gross receipts, all in detail; whether the client has worked with any other groups, with relevant details on costs, staffing, and percent of time involved; whether any candidates have addressed the client, including who, when, with what materials, and asks for video or audio recordings if available; it asks the group conducts voter registration or get out the vote drives, including the time and location of events, on whose behalf, the percent of time, staff and funds will the client will spend on it, along with any printed materials.

And that's not all -- it further inquires as to whether the client would use an officer's personal residence for its business, and the cost of doing so, along with all leases, contracts, rentals, loans and financing agreements; it wants to know how it solicits funds, with copies of all solicitations and brochures, and its fundraising costs, including the percent of staff and budget used on fundraising; for this client it asks for financial statements from 2007-2011, with a breakdown of all income and spending, information about its employees such as title, duties and pay, along with the resumes of all directors and officers; it wants to know any and all involvement in litigation, in great detail.

And Mitchell would bid us bear in mind as we read the questions that a (c)(4) can spend 100 percent of its time lobbying. Advocacy is totally permissible for all exempt organizations. A (c)(4) can spend money on partisan campaign intervention, as long as it is less than half of its work. So, why the intrusive questions?

Reading over the questionnaire, one is reminded of Southern literacy tests designed to keep blacks from registering by demanding an inordinate level of detail and specific answers.

This IRS questionnaire, and the hundreds like it sent to conservative groups, had no purpose other than to stop their political activity and force them to spend their time filling out endless forms. Talk about a chilling effect on free speech!

OBAMA'S WATERLOO

THE NEWS OF THE DAY.  READ IT HERE FIRST.  I posted  about this earlier this week.  Here's the rest of the story.

President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.

“For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House

 Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?

Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?

The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts.

March 31, 2010.

According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.

The White House lists the IRS union leader’s visit this way:

Kelley, Colleen Potus 03/31/2010 12:30

In White House language, “POTUS” stands for “President of the United States.”

The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America. The IG report wrote it up this way:

April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit, suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.

In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS “Determinations Unit Program agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.” As stated by the IG report.

THE REST OF THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR STORY IS HERE.  
BE SURE TO READ IT ALL.

IRS SUPERVISOR PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE - SHOULD BE FIRED!

Lois Lerner, who was running the Tax Exempt division of the IRS during the Tea
Party/Conservative targeting scandal, has been placed on administrative leave.  Well, whoop-de-do.  Now she can sit in her house and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages and benefits while Obama continues to lie about what he knew and when he knew it, and Congress continues to ferret out the all illusive facts.  Hard to get to the truth when Obama minions dodge answering questions and make a mockery of the situation.  The reality?  The buck stops at Obama's desk.  He's quick to take credit for anything good that happens; let him be responsible for the crap too.

FOX NEWS, LERNER PLACED ON LEAVE

THE HILL.COM