Turns out IRS did not single out Tea Party types

Something the Dog Said wrote: Really? for some claiming to be a "high information" value poster on this issue, you are not aware of the Treasury Inspector's General for Tax Administration Report on Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review

A link is provided so you can get such information from such a "low level" information voter as you allege me to be.

http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditrepo ... 0053fr.pdf

The report summarizes that while a few overbroad questions were requested, those were later retracted by the IRS. The report also summarizes that the reviews were in themself appropriate. The report also details how the delays in approving or disapproving the status for those groups were due to mismanagement and bad communication, not because of any political motivation. See pages 11 onward.

I guess this is the difference between relying upon the actual investigatory reports and relying upon "hotair" and kabuki theater performances by Republican congressmen.

Really...

Treasury IG: Liberal groups weren't targeted by IRS like Tea Party- By Bernie Becker - 06/27/13 09:06 AM ET

Liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status faced less IRS scrutiny than Tea Party groups, according to the Treasury Department’s inspector general.

J. Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, told Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) in a letter dated Wednesday that the IRS did not use inappropriate criteria to scrutinize groups with “progressives” in their name seeking tax-exempt status.

“Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the ‘progressives’ identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012,” George wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. [/b][/i]

The inspector general stressed that 100 percent of the groups with “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12” in their name were flagged for extra attention, while only 30 percent of the groups with “progress” or “progressive” were highlighted as potentially political. George’s letter does not say why the progressive groups were given extra scrutiny.

“While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of Tea Party and other related criteria we described in our report, including employee interviews, e-mails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that ‘progressives’ was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention,” George wrote to Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/d ... -tea-party

A link is provided so a "low level" information voter like you can be informed. Don't thank me. (Dog's "nuanced" and "hair-splitting" responses in 5,4,3,2,1...)

Washington Post also has an article about this.
The Dem spin is incorrect again. Don't you lefties get tired of your biased, lying sources?

"Corruption: As the layers on the IRS scandal are peeled back, it's become increasingly clear the law has been broken and the White House may have been far more deeply involved than claimed. Time for a special prosecutor.
A House investigation has found that, far from being a case of "rogue agents" in Cincinnati as the White House has claimed, the IRS harassment of conservative groups appears to have been directed from the very top in Washington, D.C.
IRS employees say they were made "acutely" aware as far back as 2010 that President Obama wanted to go after tea party and other conservative groups, the Washington Times reports. Not wanting to disappoint, they did what they thought they were supposed to do.
"As prominent politicians publicly urged the IRS to take action on tax-exempt groups engaged in legal campaign intervention activities," the House report said, "the IRS treated tea party applications differently."
That's bad enough. But other newly discovered IRS documents, USA Today reported Wednesday, "show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about 'anti-Obama rhetoric,' inflammatory language and 'emotional' statements made by nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status."...


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Now Timothy Geithner knew this was going on and did nothing to report it or stop it?
That is pretty close to the White House.

Blazer Bob wrote: "Corruption: As the layers on the IRS scandal are peeled back, it's become increasingly clear the law has been broken and the White House may have been far more deeply involved than claimed. Time for a special prosecutor.
A House investigation has found that, far from being a case of "rogue agents" in Cincinnati as the White House has claimed, the IRS harassment of conservative groups appears to have been directed from the very top in Washington, D.C.
IRS employees say they were made "acutely" aware as far back as 2010 that President Obama wanted to go after tea party and other conservative groups, the Washington Times reports. Not wanting to disappoint, they did what they thought they were supposed to do.
"As prominent politicians publicly urged the IRS to take action on tax-exempt groups engaged in legal campaign intervention activities," the House report said, "the IRS treated tea party applications differently."
That's bad enough. But other newly discovered IRS documents, USA Today reported Wednesday, "show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about 'anti-Obama rhetoric,' inflammatory language and 'emotional' statements made by nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status."...


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More silly facts getting in the way of Obama's "phoney scandals".