FBI Doesn't Plan to File Criminal Charges Over IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups

[Hissyspit]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Breaking: FBI doesn't plan to file criminal charges over the IRS's targeting of conservative groups. on.wsj.com/1eEjOjY
6:10pm - 13 Jan 14

Criminal Charges Not Expected in IRS Probe

FBI Investigation Involves Heightened Scrutiny of Conservative Groups

By Devlin Barrett
Criminal Charges Not Expected in IRS Probe

The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't plan to file criminal charges over the Internal Revenue Service's heightened scrutiny of conservative groups, a move that likely will only intensify debate over the politically charged scandal.

Read more: http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303819704579318983271821584

[SummerSnow]

1. Here comes the bagger spasms.lol

[Squinch]

5. "Bagger spasms"!

These are a few of my favorite things!

[Bjorn Against]

2. Conservative groups were NOT targeted

Fuck the Wall Street Journal for continuing to parrot this lie after it has been debunked numerous times, the IRS never singled out right-wing groups, progressive groups faced the same scrutiny. The investigation was extremely partisan and only focused on the right-wing groups that were scrutinized and completely ignored the progressive groups that were scrutinized. If there was any wrongdoing here it was by Issa and his crew who abused government resources to launch a partisan political investigation which deliberatly ignored half the story.

[Mr.Bill]

3. Well, then, I guess Daryl Issa

will have to investigate the FBI now.

By the way, link doesn't work.

[House of Roberts]

7. He'll have to lead from behind then.

I'm thinking the FBI has a lot more on Issa than he can get on them.

[AAO]

4. Thanks, Obama!

[Dopers_Greed]

6. Misleading headline

Leaves out the important part that THERE WAS NO CRIMINAL WRONGDOING.

The headline as is will make it easy for the RW to spin...though the difficulty of spinning a story has never stopped them before.

[OnyxCollie]

8. Someone still got fired.

[mainer]

14. Yeah, and wasn't she a Republican?

I seem to remember that the fired IRS official was, in fact, a Republican.

[OnyxCollie]

15. Steven Miller got fired by the WH.

Steven Miller: Too Incompetent Even for the IRS
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/steven-miller-too-incompetent-even-for-the-irs.html

Last week, when President Barack Obama fired Steven Miller, the acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, some people wondered whether he was a fall guy. He had only been running the IRS since November, meaning he wasn’t in charge when the agency was harassing conservative nonprofit groups.

If the president was looking for someone at the IRS to fire, Miller was his only option. Other bad actors, like Lois Lerner, who directs the IRS division in charge of overseeing tax-exempt organizations, are civil servants whose firing must go through a process removed from the White House.

Now we know that Miller deserved to be canned. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee today, Miller said he came up with the idea to disclose the targeting of Tea Party groups by planting a question on a Friday at an American Bar Association conference, in hopes of softening the blow of the IRS Inspector General’s report that the agency knew would be coming out the next week.

Miller told the committee of the planted question, “Obviously the whole thing was an entirely bad idea.” Um, yeah.

[24601]

9. I don't know who ever led anyone to believe they would. They could lead to the conclusion that

things like NSA programs needed to be looked into. Now that it's all cleared up, we can move on.

[Ash_F]

10. The rules are very strict for non-profits

...regarding partisanship. These bagger groups are obviously partisan.

[alp227]

11. Non paywalled link

http://archive.is/sz2on

[Todays_Illusion]

12. Clever how WSJ makes it look as if there was targeting,

and I heard the same thing on NPR last week, the host & guest speak as if it was a fact that only conservative groups had been targeted, and yes comparing to Christie. Watch for this, the fake IRS noise is going to be handled in the propaganda as if it was real.

I do admire the finesse of the propaganda.

[OKNancy]

13. kick