May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO The White House counsel's office was informed in April of an inspector general's review of the Internal Revenue Service, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. Carney told reporters that the counsel's office was told of the examination into the targeting of conservative groups during the week of April 22, but not given details ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL The Internal Revenue Service wrote to the Richmond Tea Party last year demanding to know the names of all its financial donors and volunteers, as part of a 55-question inquisition into its application for tax-exempt status, MailOnline has learned. The agency wanted to know 'the names of the donors, contributors, and grantors' for ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Washington Secrets: Tea Party and conservative constitutional groups may be the new targets of the Internal Revenue Service, but former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld reveals in his new book out this week that outspoken businesses critical of the federal government are also singled out by the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission. In "Rumsfeld's ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW Let me begin with your IRS question of the day — presented to a Tennessee conservative group: List each past or present board member, officer, key employee and members of their families who: a) Has served on the board of another organization. ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - "Our survival as a species is dependent on women taking charge,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) told a gathering at a campaign fundraiser earlier this month. She made the comment before introducing Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, who was among those attending the Schakowsky fundraiser dubbed ”The Ultimate Women’s ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER An Arizona Republic cartoonist is under fire for a funny that equates the Republican Party with accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. In a drawing that appeared Friday titled “Speaking of holding women in captivity…..” Steve Benson, a 1993 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, depicted a dungeon in which an ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER On Monday morning, ABC News reported that “The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week. …” Accompanying its story, ABC has posted a draft IRS inspector general report. Below, I’ve collected a list of the factors in applications for tax-exempt ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Business Insider: In response to a request for how it was able to obtain AP phone records, the Justice Department gave Business Insider this prepared statement: We take seriously our obligations to follow all applicable laws, federal regulations, and Department of Justice policies when issuing subpoenas for phone records of media organizations. Those ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES “Bullfeathers!” That was the reaction to President Obama’s Benghazi comments Monday from the mother of one of the State Department diplomats killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Libya. In an interview with Union-Tribune TV on Monday afternoon, Pat Smith said she doesn’t believe the administration is telling the truth about the ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
...Even Though They Had Been Doing It For 2 Years Already Excerpted from Mediaite: As we learned last week, the Internal Revenue Service reportedly targeted conservative “tea party” organizations during the 2012 election cycle by applying increased scrutiny to them when applying for tax-exempt status. BuzzFeed has unearthed a clip showing the IRS’ own former head ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A little over a year ago, I reported that, ”It is likely that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential donor information showing a contribution from Mitt Romney’s political action committee to the National Organization for Marriage, says the group.” Now — on the heels of news the IRS’s ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
(CNSNews.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee wants to know when the White House first knew that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting groups for heightened scrutiny for their political views, including groups that used the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax exempt status, or that sought to educate people ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Republicans want heads to roll in the wake of revelations that the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative groups for further scrutiny, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is asking Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to begin with the current IRS Commissioner. “It is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Republicans want heads to roll in the wake of revelations that the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative groups for further scrutiny, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is asking Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to begin with the current IRS Commissioner. “It is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Democratic Montana senator Max Baucus is leading an investigation into why the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny despite the fact that Baucus once wrote a letter urging the IRS to do exactly that. Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, will head the committee’s investigation into the ...
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