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It's Over Now, IRS Apologizes

Mike

Well-known member
End of story?
The new head of the IRS has apologized to those who suffered because of the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, after he testified before a House subcommittee for the first time.




IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told reporters after the hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee that the singling out of such organizations for special scrutiny would be “intolerable,” and vowed the IRS is not doing so now.

“It won't happen going forward,” Koskinen said. “And to the extent that people suffered accordingly, I apologize for that.”

Koskinen also expressed concern over the amount of time and manpower being spent by the IRS on the investigation into the scandal, calling the probe a “major drain” on resources.

“Which is one of the reasons I hope we can get to closure as soon as possible to get it behind us,” he said. “The facts will be what they are and we'll respond appropriately. But we have a lot of resources that we could actually put to productive use dealing with services to taxpayers."

Koskinen drew criticism earlier this week when he announced he was reinstating cancelled 2013 employee bonuses. Conservative lawmakers such as Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch questioned why an agency with employees who “inappropriately” targeted conservative political groups would reinstate the rewards.

Obama nominated Koskinen, a retired corporate and government official with experience managing numerous organizations in crisis, to take over the IRS in August and he took over in December.
 

Steve

Well-known member
Funny when you consider it is STILL happening..

Wednesday, 05 Feb 2014

“Once caught red-handed,” American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) Senior Counsel David French said, “the administration didn’t change its goal [of] suppressing the free speech of these conservative groups.

”It’s just shifted methods. The ends are the same, only the means have changed,” he says.

Of the 41 grassroots groups named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) -- a case alleging widespread abuses of the First Amendment rights of assembly and free speech by the Obama administration and the IRS -- 13 still have not yet received an adjudication on their request for non-profit status.

The proposed new IRS regulations seek to limit 501c4 groups’ activities. Conservative activists say the rules have exacerbated their sense of uncertainty and intimidation.

“Of course that has a chilling effect,” says French. “And until it is decisively and emphatically stopped through public, legal accountability, that chilling effect is likely to linger.”

Washington GOP super lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who represents grass-roots conservative activists not included in the ACLJ lawsuit, recently echoed the view that conservative groups continue to be singled out in the run-up to the 2014 elections.

“The IRS is still, very deliberately targeting conservative organizations and subjecting them to additional intense and burdensome scrutiny -- and this has not stopped,” she said. “This is still ongoing.”

yep I saw it on CSpan.. so we know it is still happening..

Cleta Mitchell ripped the Obama comments about smidgen to shreds..
 

Tam

Well-known member
It wasn't that long ago that the SECRET Conservative group in Hollywood came out and admitted the IRS was and IS targeting them. They wanted their membership list and the group said no as can you imagine what would happen if that list of Conservative were to be leaked out to Liberal Hollywood World. People might as well forget ever working with some of those OH SO TOLERANT LIBERALS. And you know it would happen as Conservative donor lists were proven to have been leaked and those donors were targeted by liberal campaigns.

Obama said there was not a smidgen of corruption but we know that is not true because of the donor list leaking out so just how close does the corruption get to him that he is claiming there is NONE?
 
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