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Little-Acorn
06-10-2013, 05:59 PM
We all know the standard explanation by now: The targeting of conservative groups by the IRS was done by a few rogue employees, they were the only ones who had anything to do with it.

But a look back, shows that quite a few groups, from Congress to the New Yorker magazine to White House accountants, up to and including the President of the United States himself, started denouncing and going after specific conservative groups all at the same time... and so did the IRS.

A few excerpts from the timeline are shown below.

Those "few rogue employees" certainly got around, didn't they?

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http://online.wsj.com/article/potomac_watch.html

An IRS Political Timeline

President Obama spent months in 2010 warning Americans about the 'threat' to democracy posed by conservative groups, right at the time the IRS began targeting these groups.

by KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
June 6, 2013, 7:40 p.m. ET

Perhaps the only useful part of the inspector general's audit of the IRS was its timeline. We know that it was August 2010 when the IRS issued its first "Be On the Lookout" list, flagging applications containing key conservative words and issues. The criteria would expand in the months to come.

What else was happening in the summer and fall of 2010? The Obama administration and its allies continue to suggest the IRS was working in some political vacuum. What they'd rather everyone forget is that the IRS's first BOLO list coincided with their own attack against "shadowy" or "front" conservative groups that they claimed were rigging the electoral system.

Below is a more relevant timeline, a political one, which seeks to remind readers of the context in which the IRS targeting happened.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-XT234_PW0607_D_20130606151525.jpg
Barack Obama warns the country about conservative groups, Aug. 9, 2010

Aug. 9, 2010: In Texas, President Obama for the first time publicly names a group he is obsessed with—Americans for Prosperity (founded by the Koch Brothers)—and warns about conservative groups. Taking up a cry that had until then largely been confined to left-wing media and activists, he says: "Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads . . . And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation."

Aug. 11: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sends out a fundraising email warning about "Karl Rove-inspired shadow groups."

Aug. 21: Mr. Obama devotes his weekly radio address to the threat of "attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names. We don't know who's behind these ads and we don't know who's paying for them. . . . You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation. . . . The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide."

Week of Aug. 23: The New Yorker's Jane Mayer authors a hit piece on the Koch brothers, entitled "Covert Operations," in which she accuses them of funding "political front groups." The piece repeats the White House theme, with Ms. Mayer claiming the Kochs have created "slippery organizations with generic-sounding names" that have "made it difficult to ascertain the extent of their influence in Washington."

Aug. 27: White House economist Austan Goolsbee, in a background briefing with reporters, accuses Koch industries of being a pass-through entity that does "not pay corporate income tax." The Treasury inspector general investigates how it is that Mr. Goolsbee might have confidential tax information. The report has never been released.

This same week, the Democratic Party files a complaint with the IRS claiming the Americans for Prosperity Foundation is violating its tax-exempt status.


(Full text of the timeline and article, can be read at the above URL)

BillyBob
06-10-2013, 08:59 PM
Who really thinks this is a coincidence? [besides Gabby]

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
06-10-2013, 09:24 PM
We all know the standard explanation by now: The targeting of conservative groups by the IRS was done by a few rogue employees, they were the only ones who had anything to do with it.

But a look back, shows that quite a few groups, from Congress to the New Yorker magazine to White House accountants, up to and including the President of the United States himself, started denouncing and going after specific conservative groups all at the same time... and so did the IRS.

A few excerpts from the timeline are shown below.

Those "few rogue employees" certainly got around, didn't they?

------------------------------------------

http://online.wsj.com/article/potomac_watch.html

An IRS Political Timeline

President Obama spent months in 2010 warning Americans about the 'threat' to democracy posed by conservative groups, right at the time the IRS began targeting these groups.

by KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
June 6, 2013, 7:40 p.m. ET

Perhaps the only useful part of the inspector general's audit of the IRS was its timeline. We know that it was August 2010 when the IRS issued its first "Be On the Lookout" list, flagging applications containing key conservative words and issues. The criteria would expand in the months to come.

What else was happening in the summer and fall of 2010? The Obama administration and its allies continue to suggest the IRS was working in some political vacuum. What they'd rather everyone forget is that the IRS's first BOLO list coincided with their own attack against "shadowy" or "front" conservative groups that they claimed were rigging the electoral system.

Below is a more relevant timeline, a political one, which seeks to remind readers of the context in which the IRS targeting happened.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-XT234_PW0607_D_20130606151525.jpg
Barack Obama warns the country about conservative groups, Aug. 9, 2010

Aug. 9, 2010: In Texas, President Obama for the first time publicly names a group he is obsessed with—Americans for Prosperity (founded by the Koch Brothers)—and warns about conservative groups. Taking up a cry that had until then largely been confined to left-wing media and activists, he says: "Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads . . . And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation."

Aug. 11: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sends out a fundraising email warning about "Karl Rove-inspired shadow groups."

Aug. 21: Mr. Obama devotes his weekly radio address to the threat of "attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names. We don't know who's behind these ads and we don't know who's paying for them. . . . You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation. . . . The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide."

Week of Aug. 23: The New Yorker's Jane Mayer authors a hit piece on the Koch brothers, entitled "Covert Operations," in which she accuses them of funding "political front groups." The piece repeats the White House theme, with Ms. Mayer claiming the Kochs have created "slippery organizations with generic-sounding names" that have "made it difficult to ascertain the extent of their influence in Washington."

Aug. 27: White House economist Austan Goolsbee, in a background briefing with reporters, accuses Koch industries of being a pass-through entity that does "not pay corporate income tax." The Treasury inspector general investigates how it is that Mr. Goolsbee might have confidential tax information. The report has never been released.

This same week, the Democratic Party files a complaint with the IRS claiming the Americans for Prosperity Foundation is violating its tax-exempt status.


(Full text of the timeline and article, can be read at the above URL) It was all geared towards and a part of the obam reelection campaign. Don't think holding those groups back didn't affect the Romney campaign financially and otherwise. In fact, it was solely a tactic designed to limit support for Obama's opponent in his reelection bid. All part of an illegal dirty campaign operation and quite possibly could have been the very thing that gave him the edge to win. The election should be voided and done over again but will never happen. -Tyr

red states rule
06-11-2013, 08:49 AM
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Little-Acorn
06-11-2013, 09:52 AM
It sheds a little more light on the "mystery" of why Lois Lerner took the 5th amendment. Somebody had to coordinate all this sudden, simultaneous activity of so many diverse groups.

If Lerner didn't do it, perhaps she knows who did? Did someone contact her in early August 2010, to "suggest" holding up the applications of conservative groups, barraging them with invasive questions etc. for both the 2010 Congressional election season and the 2012 Presidential one?

red states rule
06-11-2013, 09:56 AM
Davis Limbaugh sums up the current state of America




Consider the Homeland Security Department's, under Obama's watch, designating "right-wing extremist groups" as potential domestic threats.
Ponder the administration's practice of punishing, after having promised to reward, whistle-blowers, from Gerald Walpin to Fast and Furious to the most recent flurry of scandals.


America, under Obama, is rapidly abandoning its commitment to ensure equal protection of the laws to all citizens, as opposed to only those who support Obama and his agenda.


How else do we explain the administration's orchestration of the jailing of a man for producing an anti-Islam video because it helped serve the president's dishonest narrative that the Benghazi, Libya, consulate attacks were spontaneous and not the coldblooded, premeditated actions of Islamic terrorists?


Or the more recent revelation that the Internal Revenue Service deliberately targeted conservative groups in their applications for tax-exempt status based on directives from Washington?


Or the shocking story hot off the presses of a soldier's facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative authors Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and yours truly, and serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at his promotion party? Only in Obama's America.


Despite all we know about Obama's personal attitudes, policies and actions and his capricious wielding of executive power to reward supporters and punish opponents, some die-hards maintain Obama is not to blame for the latest rash of scandals.


Well, if Obama was truly unaware of the IRS abuse, AWOL during the Benghazi attacks and the subsequent administration-orchestrated cover-up, and oblivious to the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, the targeting of the media in the Associated Press scandal, the raiding of Gibson Guitar Corp., the witch hunt against Fox News reporter James Rosen, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' alleged pressuring of companies within the regulatory ambit of HHS to donate, and the multitudinous scandals concerning Solyndra, exactly what does he spend his time doing?


If Obama wasn't behind those egregious episodes or was ignorant of them as he claims, then we have a right to know who has been acting as our president. If he didn't order them, then he undeniably fostered a climate that strongly encouraged his subordinates to implement them on his behalf.


It simply cannot be coincidental that Obama's underlings have pursued discriminatory practices that precisely conform to Obama's agenda and to his friends and enemies lists.


This is Obama's America.


http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2013/06/11/youd-better-believe-this-is-obamas-america-n1617057/page/2

gabosaurus
06-11-2013, 10:09 AM
Conservatives should be targeted. And watched very closely. Spied on if deemed necessary. Especially the militant gun nuts.
If there is a file on me, there should be a file on you as well.

Little-Acorn
06-11-2013, 10:18 AM
(Please don't feed the trolls.)

red states rule
06-12-2013, 06:27 AM
Wishful thinking on the part of Mr. Tingle's?
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