Curious IRS Timing

[Valin]

WSJ:

 

Did the tax agency also target groups that support Israel?

5/28/13

 

The IRS has admitted targeting groups that wanted to speak on issues during the 2012 election season. But did the agency also target tax-exempt groups that opposed Administration policy priorities?

 

At a House oversight hearing last week, Treasury Inspector General Russell George opened the door on the possibility of more IRS political targeting. Asked by Chairman Darrell Issa whether there were other political criteria that IRS workers had been told to "be on the lookout" for, Mr. George said he could "not give you a definitive answer, sir, at this time. But I certainly will."

 

A definitive answer is needed because troubling cases are surfacing. The Arlington, Virginia-based Leadership Institute, a 501©(3) that trains young conservative activists, says it was audited in 2011-2012 and had to produce some 23,000 pages of documents for the IRS as well as answer questions about where its interns came from and where they are currently employed.

 

Curiously, the intrusive questionnaire came from the IRS's Baltimore office on February 14, 2012, soon after the Cincinnati office asked the Hawaii Tea Party on January 26, 2012 to "provide details regarding your relationship with the Leadership Institute" and "provide copies of their training materials." The group's audit fell squarely within the IRS's 2010-2012 season for conservative targeting.

 

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Tea Party...Pro-Adoption....Pro-Israel...Limited Government.

What could possible be the connection? It's just a mystery to me.

[Draggingtree]

Soros Spent $6.1 Million Pressuring
IRS to Target Conservatives
CNSNews.com

As IRS efforts targeting politically-conservative groups gained momentum, George Soros-funded liberal groups repeatedly called on the IRS to investigate conservative nonprofit organizations.

While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to pick up steam on a national level soon after Soros-funded groups began firing off letters to the IRS in October of that year - following the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

The talking points of these groups then bounced around a carefully created progressive "echo chamber," until they eventually made their way into established media outlets. Key IRS policy changes about how it investigated conservative groups took place soon after it received three separate letters sent by Soros-funded liberal organizations.

Several Soros-funded groups including the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones and Alternet have worked to pressure the IRS to target conservative nonprofit groups. The subsequent IRS investigation flagged more than 100 tea party-related snip

 

http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/9469

[Valin]

Soros Spent $6.1 Million Pressuring

IRS to Target Conservatives

What I find...fascinating is our friends on the Left never seem to have the same problems with George as they do with Dave and Charlie. One might almost suspect politics/ideology is involved....but that's just crazy talk.

[Draggingtree]

 

Soros Spent $6.1 Million Pressuring

IRS to Target Conservatives

What I find...fascinating is our friends on the Left never seem to have the same problems with George as they do with Dave and Charlie. One might almost suspect politics/ideology is involved....but that's just crazy talk.

 

crazy talk I am, well lost for words