IRS Gave FBI 1.1 million records to use against 'conservatives'

[PapaG]

Democrats are now arguing that the IRS needs a bigger budget and wider powers.

Think about this, any of you who aren't completely ideological morons.

 

[Denny Crane]

The sad part is that I clicked the link to the common sense website and scanned a few things. Looked like crazy people to me. However, I immediately wondered if I didn't pop up on some govt agency list right after.

Yeah, it looks like the sites MARIS cites for me.

 

[Denny Crane]

Seen on Morning Joe today. NYTimes has an article about Christie pushing for money to fix a bridge in his state (somehow it's a scandal) on page 1. IRS losing the emails, the hearings on capital hill about it, etc., made page A-19.

 

[Denny Crane]

$3.8T budget and these guys are using some old Microsoft Exchange server for email and they never backed it up?

Good idea to put them in charge of ObamaCare. They must be running foreign policy, too.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The fuck.

http://news.yahoo.com/irs-lois-lerner-tried-audit-gop-sen-chuck-214805358.html

Investigators in Congress discovered new emails from Lois Lerner Wednesday revealing the former IRS Exempt Organizations director’s attempt to audit GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley in 2012 over an email mixup.

According to the Associated Press, Lerner mistakenly received an email invitation to an event in December of that year meant for Grassley, who presumably received Lerner’s.

The invitation from the organizer reportedly included an offer to pay for the attendance of Grassley’s wife, should the two be interested in coming. Upon reading Grassley’s invitation mistakenly sent to Lerner, the IRS official accused of unjustifiably targeting conservative tea party organizations’ tax exempt status forwarded the email to another IRS employee, and inquired about a possible audit of the Iowa senator.

Lerner speculated it could be inappropriate for the organizer to pay for Grassley’s wife to attend.

The second IRS official dismissed Lerner’s suggestion, and said an audit would be a premature action.

 

[maxiep]

Boy, you GOP-ers sure are oppressed.

Fez, one day it will be a Republican administration doing the same thing to left-leaning organizations.

 

[cmeese47]

Wake up, America. I'd feel the same way had the IRS was headed by a major GOP donor and worked for a GOP administration, too.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/reminder-irs-commissioner-john-koskinen-is-massive-donor-to-dems/

Not 19,000 OMG that ain't shit compared to the millions funneled through back channels and given to republicans by oil companies etc

 

[Denny Crane]

Not 19,000 OMG that ain't shit compared to the millions funneled through back channels and given to republicans by oil companies etc

Do you think it's wise to have the elected people (or those they appoint) decide who gets to spend how much money on political speech?

Seems like a real threat to the 1st amendment to me.