Majority Believe Obama’s IRS Targeting of Tea Party Was Intentional and Illegal

Of course it was.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans believe the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal was an intentional effort to harass conservative political groups.

In a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Tuesday, 56 percent said the IRS use of higher scrutiny on Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status was a deliberate move, with 31 percent calling it an “administrative mistake.”

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A strong majority, 74 percent, said the IRS moves were inappropriate to 20 percent who said they were appropriate. Fifty-one percent also said they believe those actions were illegal to 44 who said they were inappropriate but not against the law.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/300895-poll-majority-believe-irs-targeting-of-tea-party-was-intentional

No doubt the NTEU's 94% donation rate to Democrats is completely irrelevant to how they would treat conservatives as IRS employees

The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups — saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago.

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Monday’s revelation amounts to the fifth iteration of the Obama administration’s account of events, after initially saying that the White House had first learned of the controversy from the press.

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/the-white-houses-shifting-irs-account-91638.html?hp=f2

You know how you tell when someone is telling the truth?

When the offer up 5 iterations of a narrative.

^All that may be true, bit does not supply the SPECIFIC federal law that was broken.

Fill in the blank: USC Title____ chapter___ section___.

When they find out what actually happened, meaning which specific people did what, they will be able to tell you.

But, to raise a specific example, the IRS released confidential information to the media about 8 groups. That violates disclosure laws. They are principally composed of certain sections of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), (especially IRC §§ 6103, 6104, 6105, 6110, 7213, 7213A, and 7431). It also includes the Freedom of Information Act (5 United States Code (U.S.C.) § 552) and the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. § 552a).

Sorry, forgot this:

Criminal Penalties Under IRC § 7213

https://www.irs.gov/irm/part11/irm_11-003-001.html#d0e176

The 1st Amendment to the US constitution.

How many conservitive groups were turned down and why?

I thought I'd ask you since you posted about it beside Im a lazy liberal.

It's not they they were turned down, in many cases their applications were held up and still haven't been approved. Instead the IRS was too busy wanting to know what their group members were reading, what was said in their prayers, a list of all their facebook posts etc..

One of the illegal things the IRS did was to provide a progressive group information regarding the conservative group's finances and tax returns. Uhm, that is illegal.  

The best way to eliminate this type of abuse of power by the Executive Branch is to eliminate the IRS with it's over 90,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $12 billion..

Lois Lerner took the 5th because it is obvious they broke the law.

In citing these polls, it's too bad 14 Road didn't cite the polls that pointed to an Obama victory in 2012.

To him, polls are only relevant when they favor your own opinion.

Children, these scandals have been on going for 100 years. On both sides, always trying to position themselves for the next election. These two allegations, IRS and Benghazi won't fly before 2014 because Obama is too clever for the repulsicans.

Clinton was too but they knew that he couldn't resist Monica, so they planted her on the ropes. Clinton said as much after the scandal was over... that Newt told him she was planted there and all is fair in love and politics.

Obama won't fall for their conniving little tricks.