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HALF BELIEVE IRS SCANDAL LEADS BACK TO WHITE HOUSE: POLL
CNN: “A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups, according to a new national poll. And a CNN/ORC International survey released Tuesday morning also indicates that a majority of the public says the controversy, which involves increased IRS scrutiny of tea party […]
OBAMA’S GOT THREE FUNDRAISERS TODAY: 2014 OR NOTHING
June 12, 2013
White House: “In the afternoon, the President will travel to New York City. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport will be open press. While in New York City, the President will deliver remarks at two DNC events at private residences and a joint DCCC/DSCC event at […]
CLAPPER LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT NSA DATA COLLECTION: PERJURY?
June 7, 2013
Breitbart: “The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper may have lied to Congress when he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12 that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans. On Thursday, Breitbart News broke the story about Clapper’s previous testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee by unearthing video […]
HIGH LEVEL IRS TEA PARTY SOURCE CARTER HULL TO RETIRE
June 7, 2013
National Review: “The IRS lawyer accused by a Cincinnati IRS agent of micromanaging her work on tea-party cases, Carter Hull, is retiring amidst the scandal roiling the tax-collection agency. An IRS source confirmed to National Review Online that Hull, who has been with the agency for decades, will retire this summer and requested his retirement […]
LOW LEVEL IRS EMPLOYEES REVEAL DC SOURCES: CARTER HULL
June 6, 2013
Daily Caller: “A Washington IRS attorney named Carter Hull closely oversaw the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups and suggested questions that IRS employees could ask of conservative and Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt nonprofit status, according to interviews that two IRS employees gave with congressional investigators. “I was essentially a front person, because I […]
IRS SCANDAL HEARING: NO DEMOCRAT GROUPS CALLED TO TESTIFY
June 4, 2013
Breitbart: “The minority party has the power to call witnesses at all committee hearings. The majority party generally gets to call more witnesses and schedule in what order they testify, but the minority still has the right to bring forward witnesses. If liberal groups were targeted by the IRS, wouldn’t Tuesday’s hearing be a perfect […]
THE LAW IS IRRELEVANT: OBAMA SUNDAY TALK SHOW GUY
May 20, 2013
ABC This Week made more history for Obama on Sunday. The topic concerned the focus on conservatives for special tax scrutiny over the past few years leading up to the last election. Stephanopoulos: “What does the president believe? Does the president believe that would be illegal?” Pfeiffer: “I can’t speak to the law here. The […]
OBAMA FIRES ACTING IRS COMMISSIONER: RESIGNS IN JUNE
May 16, 2013
Obama yesterday: “I’ve reviewed the Treasury Department watchdog’s report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it […]
IRS POLITICAL TARGETING: INTIMIDATE THE TEA PARTY
May 15, 2013
Obama State of Union 2010, spoke about the Supreme Court Citizen United decision: “Last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations to spend without limit in our elections. I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful […]
OBAMA SCANDAL, SCANDAL, SCANDAL: LOSER AMERICA
May 15, 2013
NY Post: “As a metaphor for big government, it is hard to top the Justice Department’s seizing of journalists’ phone records from The Associated Press. Unless, of course, you think the best example is the Internal Revenue Service turning the screws on groups it viewed as conservative and, therefore, unworthy of fair treatment. Or maybe […]
June 18, 2013
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