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- Msnbc Host Alex Wagner: ‘irs Was The Real Target In Tea Party 501 Investigations’
Mediaite:In the wake of new revelations regarding how former IRS official Lois Lerner coordinated with liberal advocacy groups and members of Congress to release the details of the tax-exemption applications of conservative groups, MSNBC host Alex...
- Donations To Karl Rove’s Groups Drop 98% After He Targets The Tea Party
I get tired of saying it.Outside of the two issues of financial responsibility (which does not have to mean massive cuts), and fidelity to the Constitution and it’s processes, there IS no such thing as the Tea Party.The Tea Party is just millions and...
- Breaking: New Irs Chief Says Targeting Of Conservative Groups Was Broader And Longer Than Previously Disclosed – Agency Improperly Screened Groups Until Last Month…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Internal Revenue Service says inappropriate screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than was previously disclosed. Danny Werfel told reporters Monday that after becoming...
- Despite Claims She Had Nothing To Do With Scandal, And That It Was All "front Line" (low-level) Workers, Lois Lerner's Signature Is On Letters To Many Groups Targeted By Irs
From NRO: A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity. Lerner,...
- Irs Approved Liberal Groups Without Issue While Holding Conservative Groups In Limbo
Surprise, surprise: WASHINGTON — In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked. That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling...
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Soros Funded Groups That Initiated IRS Action Against Conservative Groups - Those Soros Groups Are, Themselves, 501c3/Tax-Exempt Groups
CNS News has more on Soros-funded groups pressuring the IRS to target conservative groups.
The IRS scandal can be traced back to a series of letters that the liberal groups Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and
Democracy 21
sent to the IRS back in 2010 and 2011. Both groups were funded by George’s Soros’s
Open Society Foundations.
The CLC received $677,000 and Democracy 21 got $365,000 from the Soros-backed foundation, according to the Foundation’s 990 tax forms.The letters specifically targeted conservative Super PACs like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, asking the IRS to scrutinize them more thoroughly to determine whether or not they should retain their tax-exempt status.On Oct. 5, 2010, when the first letter was sent to the IRS, calling specifically for the agency to “investigate” Crossroads GPS. The letter claimed Crossroads was “impermissibly using its tax status to spend tens of millions of dollars in the 2010 congressional races while hiding the donors funding these expenditures from the American people.” Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer wrote a blog post for the liberal Huffington Post to promote it, and the effort to get the media to notice the anti-conservative campaign began.On June 27, 2011, a second letter by the CLC and Democracy 21 complained about enforcement of 501(c)(4) tax regulations, asking “that the IRS issue new regulations that better enforce the law.” Two days later, an IRS senior agency official was briefed on a new policy targeting groups which “criticize how the country is being run,” according to a Washington Post story. According to the Post, this policy was later revised.A third letter by the CLC and Democracy 21, on Sept 28, 2011, got media traction. The letter showed the escalation of the left’s complaint about 501(c)(4) groups. It challenged “the eligibility of four organizations engaged in campaign activity to be treated as 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations.” The four organizations included Crossroads GPS, Priorities USA, American Action Network and Americans Elect.The Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity ($2,716,328) published a “study” on 501(c)(4) groups, on October 31, which drew heavily from, and referenced, the CLC and Democracy 21. The Center for Public Integrity has strong media connections and boasts an advisory board that includes Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News, and Michele Norris, an NPR host, as well as a board of directors with such prominent names as Huffington Post CEO Arianna Huffington, Steve Kroft of CBS News’s “60 Minutes” and Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist)
- Msnbc Host Alex Wagner: ‘irs Was The Real Target In Tea Party 501 Investigations’
Mediaite:In the wake of new revelations regarding how former IRS official Lois Lerner coordinated with liberal advocacy groups and members of Congress to release the details of the tax-exemption applications of conservative groups, MSNBC host Alex...
- Donations To Karl Rove’s Groups Drop 98% After He Targets The Tea Party
I get tired of saying it.Outside of the two issues of financial responsibility (which does not have to mean massive cuts), and fidelity to the Constitution and it’s processes, there IS no such thing as the Tea Party.The Tea Party is just millions and...
- Breaking: New Irs Chief Says Targeting Of Conservative Groups Was Broader And Longer Than Previously Disclosed – Agency Improperly Screened Groups Until Last Month…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Internal Revenue Service says inappropriate screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than was previously disclosed. Danny Werfel told reporters Monday that after becoming...
- Despite Claims She Had Nothing To Do With Scandal, And That It Was All "front Line" (low-level) Workers, Lois Lerner's Signature Is On Letters To Many Groups Targeted By Irs
From NRO: A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity. Lerner,...
- Irs Approved Liberal Groups Without Issue While Holding Conservative Groups In Limbo
Surprise, surprise: WASHINGTON — In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked. That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling...