Add 2+2, get Obozo!
...My organization was not the only conservative-linked political group
or business that appears to have faced shady actions from IRS employees.
ProPublica reported this week that the IRS handed over to them confidential documents of nine conservative organizations
whose applications for non-profit status were still pending. Among
them: Crossroads GPS, a key group backing Mitt Romney's presidential
campaign.
Our case was particularly egregious because the IRS
leak of confidential information fed directly into an ongoing political
battle. For months before March 2012, the pro-gay marriage HRC had been
demanding that my group, NOM, publicly identify its major donors, something that NOM and many other non-profits refuse
to do. The reason is simple. In the past, gay marriage advocates have
used such information to launch campaigns of intimidation against
traditional marriage supporters.
Just as gay marriage proponents
were demanding the information, the IRS appears to have illegally given
them exactly what they were looking for. The tax return released by the
HRC contained the names and addresses of dozens of major donors
to NOM. And there's little doubt where the documents came from. The tax
returns contained internal coding added by the IRS after the returns
were originally submitted.
For the IRS to leak any organization's
tax return to its political opponents is an outrageous breach of ethics
and, if proven, constitutes a felony. Every organization — liberal and
conservative — should shudder at the idea of the IRS playing politics
with its confidential tax return information. But the situation here is
even more egregious because the head of the HRC was at the time serving
as a national co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.
The
release of NOM's confidential tax return to the Human Rights Campaign
is the canary in the coal mine of IRS corruption. Contrary to assertions
that the targeting of Tea Party groups was an error in judgment by
low-level IRS bureaucrats, the release of NOM's confidential data to a
group headed by an Obama campaign co-chair suggests the possibility of
complicity at the highest levels of politics and government. This wasn't
a low-level error in judgment; it was a conscious act to reward a
prominent Obama supporter while punishing an opponent.
Probably Meeting Number 3, or maybe Meeting Number 127.
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From Pro Publica:
“When these two issues were previously raised concerning the potential unauthorized disclosures of 501(c)(4) application information, we immediately referred these cases to TIGTA [Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration] for a comprehensive review. In both instances, TIGTA found these instances to be inadvertent and unintentional disclosures by the employees involved.”
Yes, but because this is a Kenyan autocrat socialist foreign born Muslim condom dispenser, we must abridge the 9th commandment if necessary to pursue our objectives. Has ALEC prepared the impeachment papers?
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