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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ah ha! Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups [View all]
The bombshell IRS audit released in May omitted information about liberal groups at the request of House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrations office.
A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators narrowly focus on tea party organizations.
The subsequent audit concluded the IRS used inappropriate criteria to single out for additional scrutiny tea party groups that applied for tax exempt status. The findings lead almost every politician, including President Barack Obama, to denounce the IRS. Several Republicans suggested the audit indicated the White House had a Nixonian enemies list.
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But new documents have revealed that liberal and progressive groups received similar treatment from the IRS. The inappropriate criteria used to single out tea party groups so-called Be On the Look Out (BOLO) memos also singled out progressive and Occupy groups.
A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators narrowly focus on tea party organizations.
The subsequent audit concluded the IRS used inappropriate criteria to single out for additional scrutiny tea party groups that applied for tax exempt status. The findings lead almost every politician, including President Barack Obama, to denounce the IRS. Several Republicans suggested the audit indicated the White House had a Nixonian enemies list.
. . .
But new documents have revealed that liberal and progressive groups received similar treatment from the IRS. The inappropriate criteria used to single out tea party groups so-called Be On the Look Out (BOLO) memos also singled out progressive and Occupy groups.
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Ah ha! Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups [View all]
Triana
Jun 2013
OP
This actually came out very early on -- that something like 30% were tea party groups.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#5
I think we need to establish an echo chamber like theirs to blanket the media with the truthful
karynnj
Jun 2013
#7
Issa is red-hand BUSTED for baldface, evil-intended lying, cheating, smirking & deceiving (R)
Berlum
Jun 2013
#10
So basically everything Issa accused the Whitehouse of doing, he actually did
Trekologer
Jun 2013
#12
Ah ha! Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups.
silvershadow
Jun 2013
#27