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Anyone remember Christine o'Donnell?

Steve

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I imagine everyone remembers her ill advised "I am not a witch".. but what really sank her bid for the senate was the attacks on her finances..

When a report from The News Journal in March 2010 detailed her personal fiscal difficulties, O'Donnell attributed the problems to misunderstandings and errors.[10] She also said, "I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic."[10][56] Her financial problems became a focal point of establishment Republican attacks.

she wasn't the best candidate,.. but the attacks of her finance's dogged her through out the election..

later the question arose.. how did IRS information get leaked..

we should have paid more attention to that as it was a quick peak of what is now happening..

in her case.. there is still no answer or accountability..
The House Ways and Means Committee has joined the Senate Finance Committee in probing a string of incidents dating back to March 2010, when Ms. O'Donnell — a tea party favorite who riled Delaware’s GOP establishment by besting party mainstay Mike Castle in a primary contest before losing to Democrat Chris Coons in the general election — was told by Treasury Department investigators that her tax information had been breached.

Since then, Ms. O'Donnell has run into roadblock after roadblock in her search for answers as officials at the IRS, in Delaware state government and at the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration remain tight-lipped.

What matters is that people who held the public trust (try not to laugh) probably broke laws in order to derail a candidate. They violated privacy using privileged access to information that no one else was supposed to see.

As O’Donnell told the Washington Times,

Unless this is all exposed, unless every level of inappropriateness and corruption is exposed, I certainly won’t be the last person to be politically intimidated like this.

That shouldn’t happen to anyone. It is criminal. It means the government currently in power gets a free hand to use public money and confidential knowledge to cripple democratic opposition.

where will it end?
 

Mike

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Gov't corruption gone wild and the liberal press condoning it. Blindness by the left is a way to combat admitting/exposing a mistake no matter what the consequences are to our country.

Should be grounds for treason.
 

Tam

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Don't worry I hear Holder is vetting Obama's donor list to find someone to investigate these accusations of IRS corruption. He will be making an announcement soon and you can expect a ruling within weeks saying Quote
We have done an intense investigation and we find no reason to charge anyone in this issue, CASE CLOSED
 

Tam

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Maybe while they are investigation Ms. O'Donnell's tax info being leaked they should widen the investigation to include this.

WASHINGTON — During the 2012 presidential campaign, Harry Reid claimed to have intimate knowledge of what was secretly inside Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

As President Obama’s campaign slammed Romney nearly every day for not releasing more tax returns, the Senate majority leader repeatedly made the unsubstantiated claim that, at one point in his life, Romney hadn’t paid taxes for almost a decade.

He even did so from the floor of the U.S. Senate.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/did-the-irs-give-romneys-tax-returns-to-harry-reid/#ixzz2rdUhREwr

Who in the IRS was leaking Romney's past tax info. to help the Obama campaign?
 

Tam

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Criminal Regime: Treasury Admits IRS Illegally Leaked Confidential Tax Docs Of Candidates, Donors – Also Investigating Malicious Audits Of Candidates
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:16

Excerpted from The Washington Times: The Treasury Department has admitted for the first time that confidential tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were improperly scrutinized by government officials, but the Justice Department has declined to prosecute any of the cases.

Its investigators also are probing two allegations that the Internal Revenue Service “targeted for audit candidates for public office,” the Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, has privately told Sen. Chuck Grassley.

In a written response to a request by Mr. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Mr. George said a review turned up four cases since 2006 in which unidentified government officials took part in “unauthorized access or disclosure of tax records of political donors or candidates,” including one case he described as “willful.” In four additional cases, Mr. George said, allegations of improper access of IRS records were not substantiated by the evidence.

Mr. Grassley has asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to explain why the Justice Department chose not to prosecute any of the cases. The Iowa Republican told The Washington Times that the IRS “is required to act with neutrality and professionalism, not political bias.”

The investigation did not name the government officials who obtained the IRS records improperly, nor did it reveal the identities or political parties of the people whose tax records were compromised. By law, taxpayer records at the IRS are supposed to be confidential.

The disclosures deal another blow to the IRS and the Obama administration, which are still grappling with revelations that IRS agents inappropriately targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for extraordinarily burdensome scrutiny during President Obama’s first term. Amid that furor over the abuse of the agency’s powers, the IRS has denied that the tax records of political candidates or donors were improperly accessed.

“The Justice Department should answer completely and not hide behind taxpayer confidentiality laws to avoid accountability for its decision not to prosecute a violation of taxpayer confidentiality laws,” Mr. Grassley told The Times. “With the IRS on the hot seat over targeting certain political groups, it’s particularly troubling to learn about ‘willful unauthorized access’ of tax records involving individuals who were candidates for office or political donors. The public needs to know whether the decision not to prosecute these violations was politically motivated and whether the individuals responsible were held accountable in any other way.”

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment Monday. Mr. Grassley has given Mr. Holder until July 26 to answer his questions

Is it a big surprise that Holder is not doing anything about the illegal activities at the IRS and was refusing to comment about why he is not holding anyone accountable? The guy is a friggin crook and he was appointed to top cop, just like Tax Cheat Tim was appointed to the Treasury. Obama told us to judge him by the people he keeps around him. SO I'm guessing he is a friggin tax cheating crook that is too incompetent to design a functioning website, that doesn't cares enough for those that he sends into a war zone to provide them with requested security, that refuses to hold anyone accountable for any corrupt thing they do as long as a Conservative in the victim . :mad:
 

littlejoe

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Don't ring a bell--but I got a bumper sticker that says "Guns are responsible for killing people like spoons are for making rosie O'Donnell fat"---maybe a cousin?
 

Steve

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littlejoe said:
Don't ring a bell--but I got a bumper sticker that says "Guns are responsible for killing people like spoons are for making rosie O'Donnell fat"---maybe a cousin?

I doubt it.. but who knows.. you can't pick your family..
 
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