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Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year

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UPDATED: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 04:05
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:12 AM

SIGNYM

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In a letter dated July 11, 2012, the man who conducted the investigation - IRS inspector general J. Russell George - wrote to Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, telling him that he was investigating the issue and offering to keep him updated as the investigation progressed.


http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-informed-irs-investigation-last-1256
15676--abc-news-politics.html

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Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:51 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Oh reeeee-a-leee...

Can't wait for THAT to start getting play in the news...

What were they too busy harping on last July, I wonder, that Asshole-a didn't pay attention? Just THINK of the hay they could have made of it then, election coming and all.

Poor babies...they missed their chance...
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Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it at approximately the same time.
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On Friday, in his testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee, George said he had notified top Treasury officials - including Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin - about his investigation in June 2012, part of a routine briefing on the issues he was looking into.

Republicans pounced on that revelation as evidence top Administration officials knew about the targeting of conservative groups well before the 2012 election. It is now clear that at least some key Republicans knew about the investigation as well.





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Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:29 AM

HKCAVALIER


What a bunch of Bozos.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:35 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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In a letter dated July 11, 2012, the man who conducted the investigation - IRS inspector general J. Russell George - wrote to Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, telling him that he was investigating the issue and offering to keep him updated as the investigation progressed.


http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-informed-irs-investigation-last-1256
15676--abc-news-politics.html






Hard to see how Jongsie missed this story, what with his storm of posts regarding other news from Yahoo.com.





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Monday, May 20, 2013 3:43 AM

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"We would be happy to provide a status update to the Subcommittee staff and provide a copy of our interim and final reports on the matter when they are issued," George wrote in the letter to Issa. An identical letter was also sent the Rep. Jim Jordan, who, like Issa had raised the issue with the IRS.

The letter notes that it was Issa who had written him about "questionnaires that the IRS has issued which may exceed appropriate scrutiny and a potential lack of balance in the use of criteria for reviewing organizations that are applying for tax-exempt status." George offers no confusions but says, "our Office of Audit recently began work on this issue."

According the Issa aide, the committee received an email update from George in December saying, "We are leaving no stone unturned as part of our due diligence. As such, we won't be able to provide a detailed, substantive briefing until late April/early May."



Hmm.

So the IRS auditor informed Rep. Issa they were doing an investigation, but provided no conclusions, and stated there were not going be any until April/May of 2013.

Want to bet the senior IRS officials got more info than "We'll get back to you later"?


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Monday, May 20, 2013 3:49 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Hmm.

So the IRS auditor informed Rep. Issa they were doing an investigation, but provided no conclusions, and stated there were not going be any until April/May of 2013.

Want to bet the senior IRS officials got more info than "We'll get back to you later"?





It sounds like Issa got more that "we'll get back to you later" as well.

Odd that the congressional Republicans sat on this for so long. It *almost* looks like they were trying to cover something up!

What's next? A release of GOP-edited "e-mails" that seem to implicate the administration?



"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:09 PM

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:20 PM

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:05 AM

GEEZER

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Odd that the congressional Republicans sat on this for so long. It *almost* looks like they were trying to cover something up!

What's next? A release of GOP-edited "e-mails" that seem to implicate the administration?




Since you apparently missed it here in the other thread...

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=54971

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The Pinocchio Test


It has long been part of the Washington game for officials to discredit a news story by playing up errors in a relatively small part of it. Pfeiffer gives the impression that GOP operatives deliberately tried to “smear the president” with false, doctored e-mails.

But the reporters involved have indicated they were told by their sources that these were summaries, taken from notes of e-mails that could not be kept. The fact that slightly different versions of the e-mails were reported by different journalists suggests there were different note-takers as well.

Indeed, Republicans would have been foolish to seriously doctor e-mails that the White House at any moment could have released (and eventually did). Clearly, of course, Republicans would put their own spin on what the e-mails meant, as they did in the House report. Given that the e-mails were almost certain to leak once they were sent to Capitol Hill, it’s a wonder the White House did not proactively release them earlier.

The burden of proof lies with the accuser. Despite Pfeiffer’s claim of political skullduggery, we see little evidence that much was at play here besides imprecise wordsmithing or editing errors by journalists.



Three Pinocchios






http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-white-house-
claim-of-doctored-e-mails-to-smear-the-president/2013/05/20/a23343b6-c19e-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html





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