I thought we had gone beyond Nixon, although let's face it, in a post-9/11 world Nixon would have been right: "When the president does it, it's not against the law."
All the spying power Dick would have wanted would have been codified as legal, and it would have been before the complete infiltration of government by dual-national Zionist subversives and before blackmailing spy fronts masquerading as Israeli telecoms took control of the ma$$ media apparatus.
As for those political enemies:
"IRS says audits of conservative groups out of line" by Jonathan Weisman | New York Times, May 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party movement groups and other conservative organizations Friday for what it now says were overzealous audits of their applications for tax-exempt status.
Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups, acknowledged that the agency had singled out nonprofit applicants with the terms ‘‘Tea Party’’ or ‘‘patriots’’ in their titles in an effort to respond to a surge in applications for tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012.
She insisted that the move was not driven by politics, but she added, ‘‘We made some mistakes; some people didn’t use good judgment.’’
Ever talk to someone you catch doing something wrong and they say, "yeah, but....?"
“For that we’re apologetic,’’ she told reporters on a conference call.
Yeah, but.... (sigh).
Republicans seized on the acknowledgment, demanding more information and adding it to a growing list of steps by the Obama administration that they say prove political interference, from allegedly hiding the terrorist origins of the attack in Benghazi, Libya, to the demand for disclosure of donors to conservative super PACs....
Yeah, that Libya thing. Newspaper isn't telling me it, but apparently Obama signed off on a stand-down order for a team of quick-strike saviors because the whole thing was an "Al-CIA-Duh" production and operation. When that went bad we started getting all the obfuscations and excuses like the phony film that was never made, etc.
What is becoming clearer and clearer in light of Boston is that NEARLY EVERYTHING YOU SEE or READ from the AmeriKan ma$$ media is in one way or another either a STAGED and SCRIPTED EVENT that is NOT REAL, or a HIDEOUSLY DISTORTED VIEW of it.
Sorry, but after decades of consuming the product there really is no other conclusion one can draw.
But anyway, I'm moving away from this....
The apology and the ensuing reaction could be a turning point for the IRS, which has been caught between congressional Democrats pressing the agency to protect tax-exempt status more aggressively from overtly political groups and conservative groups claiming harassment.
Campaign finance watchdogs have said for years that 501(c)(4) tax exemptions were widely abused by conservative and liberal groups whose primary purpose is to influence elections, not to promote ‘‘social welfare,’’ as tax-exempt status mandates.
But Lerner said the examinations of the Tea Party groups were not a response to such pressure. She portrayed it more as a bureaucratic mix-up....
(Blog editor simply shakes his head at the shameless lying that is knee-jerk when comes to government)
Lerner indicated that no disciplinary action had been taken against the low-level employees; when pressed, she said she could not comment on such personnel matters. She said, however, that policy changes had been made to ensure that similar episodes would not happen again.
Yeah, they always cleaned it up right quick, blah, blah, blah.
To the conservative groups and their defenders, the acknowledgment confirmed their worst accusations. In early 2012, numerous Tea Party-affiliated groups came forward to charge the IRS with harassment....
Yup, and we are tired of being dismissed as a bunch of complaining crybabies if not outright loons. Sick of saying and typing stuff and years later, yup, turns out they were lying again and again and I was telling the truth all along.
Yup, the cops spy, investigate, and consider peaceful protesters a threat and now the IRS has been crawling up their ass. And they wonder why people are damn upset?
Organizations that had been pressing for more aggressive enforcement of tax-exemption laws reacted with alarm. Lisa Gilbert, the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, said the IRS should not be targeting any particular political ideology. She said, however, that questioning applicants for tax exemption to determine whether they were primarily political was entirely proper and should be more widely pursued.
PC has fallen far since Nader left, probably for the u$ual rea$ons.
‘‘We don’t think it’s inappropriate to ask questions,’’ she said. ‘‘Tax-exempt groups are abusing their tax status to pursue political agendas.’’
Aren't you guys getting the same treatment?
That's not to say I'm for Karl Rove and all the big-money corporate PACS; however, we again seem to have incredible hypocri$y on both sides of the aisle -- which is why this f***er is broken, my friends.
Last year, Senate Democrats began pressing the IRS to target such groups more aggressively. As the Tea Party questionnaires surfaced, the agency released a statement that said, ‘‘To be tax-exempt as a social welfare organization . . . , an organization must be primarily engaged in the promotion of social welfare. [That] does not include . . . intervention in political campaigns.’’
Does AIPAC have tax-exempt status?
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Think he would have pardoned Nixon?
