The following information will be no surprise to any regular reader of this blog…but might be a major revelation for people who have relied on mainstream media to find out what actually has happened at the IRS under Barack Obama and his equally smug, obnoxious fart-catchers, lois “liar” learner and james koskinen.
Excerpted from Stephen Dinan’s article at the Washington Times:
A federal appeals court judge dubbed the IRS not trustworthy during oral argument Thursday as he and his colleagues tried to figure out whether tea party targeting is still going on.
Dozens of groups say the IRS not only treated them badly in the past, but the agency continues to subject them to special monitoring and intrusive scrutiny, damaging their reputation among potential donors and making it more likely the groups will face an audit because of their political beliefs.
The IRS’s internal auditor reported in 2013 that the agency singled out tea party and conservative groups for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Investigators said the groups were asked intrusive questions and subjected to waits that stretched into years, potentially denying them their rights.
IRS officials admitted they erred, but said the problem was bad training and confusion about a 2010 Supreme Court decision, not an intent to target groups for political purposes.
Yet three years after the targeting was exposed, at least two groups are still awaiting approval — their lawyer said they applied more than five years ago — and dozens of others say the IRS is still harming them with continued special monitoring. The groups also say the IRS has plans to make public all of the improper information the tax agency forced the groups to turn over during their applications.
A lower federal court rejected the groups’ claims, saying the IRS’s assurances it cleaned up its act made the cases generally moot.
But Judge Sentelle and Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, who sat during the oral argument Thursday, questioned that. A third panelist, Judge Karen L. Edwards, was absent from argument but will help decide the case.
How is it possible that this could go on, for this long, without media going full-bore after the IRS and the people who clearly benefited by screwing conservative groups (which occurred during Barack Obama’s re-election campaign – what a coincidence)?
If this were a Republican administration’s behavior, you would have long since lost count of the feature articles, the cable news panels and the demands for action against whoever was in charge of the IRS – especially the head of its tax exempt division.
But it isn’t a Republican administration, it is a Democrat administration. And the President is media’s lord and savior – hallowed be thy name, thy will be done – Barack Obama. So if you don’t read blogs like this one, you probably don’t have a clue that this has taken place – or that the tax exempt division head lois “liar” lerner has escaped all consequences, despite being dead-center in the middle of this scandal, arrogantly giving her side of the story at a hearing…and then pleading the fifth and refusing to testify (Try giving your side and then pleading the fifth if you’re not an Obama appointee, see what kind of cell mate you wind up with).
I write a lot about media bias in here. This is why.
