Ah ha! Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups

[Triana]

The bombshell IRS audit released in May omitted information about liberal groups at the request of House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s office.

A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators “narrowly focus on tea party organizations.”

The subsequent audit concluded the IRS used “inappropriate criteria” to single out for additional scrutiny tea party groups that applied for tax exempt status. The findings lead almost every politician, including President Barack Obama, to denounce the IRS. Several Republicans suggested the audit indicated the White House had a Nixonian “enemies list.”

. . .

But new documents have revealed that liberal and progressive groups received similar treatment from the IRS. The “inappropriate criteria” used to single out tea party groups — so-called “Be On the Look Out” (BOLO) memos — also singled out progressive and “Occupy” groups.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/issa-directed-treasury-inspector-general-to-ignore-irs-treatment-of-liberal-groups/

[mindwalker_i]

1. Stop confusing the issues with facts!

Damn, can't a red dude get a break around here?!

[LaydeeBug]

2. and NOTHING will happen to Issa. Watch. nt

[freshwest]

3. It's hanky time!

[carolinayellowdog]

4. another Shirley Sherrod case?

Breitbart's role played by Issa, Shirley's by the IRS official forced to resign, Obama playing himself.

[pnwmom]

5. This actually came out very early on -- that something like 30% were tea party groups.

But I'm glad it's coming out again.

[karynnj]

7. I think we need to establish an echo chamber like theirs to blanket the media with the truthful

corrections. The problem on all of these "scandals" that have disintegrated when examined is that they were the video's world of page 1 for days when the accusations were made - and page 23 or so when there is the correction.

I don't listen to much RW media and live in a town where the real choice for mayor was Democrat or Progressive, so I get stunned when I click on links to Fox and they are still going on with the litany of Fast and Furious etc adding all the new outrages. (I was shocked seeing Scott Brown repeat that litany. Likely a sign that he will never run for office again in Massachusetts or that he is beyond stupid.)

[pnwmom]

8. Too often we're not an echo chamber, unfortunately.

We seem to prefer being a circular firing squad.

[karynnj]

13. It is true that we fight among ourselves, but I think this goes beyond that

I never thought of it before 2004, but the way people get news has changed in such a way that it is far easier for the right to lie - and continue lying - long after they are proven wrong. Until recently, I thought of this in terms of elections.

If you think of it, what is completely unbelievable is that in 2004 and (2008/2012), they lied about some of the most thoroughly documented records that exist. In 2004, it was Kerry's service - where the official Navy record was disputed with absolutely no backup and the media even referring to it as "Kerry's version". In Obama's case, it was his birth certificate! You can't get more basic than that. Looking on right wing sites, it is amazing the number of posts that STILL takes the lies as fact.

Here, they are making up their own truth - and like with the elections - it continues long after the truth has been proven. I remember Kerry saying that he never expected the media to continue playing the liars - long after they had been given all the proof they needed to see that the liars had lied many many times. Not to mention, the newspapers, by and large, did pretty conclusively side with Kerry. It really showed how many people no longer had newspapers as their main source of news. In addition, unlike before cable, the TV news people get has become self selecting. Add in radio - that used to carry things like top 40 music - now is mostly right wing hate mongers.



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[pnwmom]

14. You're right, it is a huge problem.

And an additional one is that when the media do cover these things, they usually use the horse-race approach. Instead of digging for the facts, they just repeat what the sides are saying, even if one side is consistently, demonstrably wrong.

[karynnj]

15. That is so true - except in THEIR media which gives just their side nt

[Cha]

6. K&R!

[malaise]

9. Grand Theft Auto Issa should be in prison

Now he should be kicked out of the House

[Berlum]

10. Issa is red-hand BUSTED for baldface, evil-intended lying, cheating, smirking & deceiving (R)

...but IOKIYAR.

[burnodo]

11. Maybe Obama will retract his condemnation of the IRS

For doing its job

[Trekologer]

12. So basically everything Issa accused the Whitehouse of doing, he actually did

Issa is a liar and used his influence in the government to go after his political enemies. Issa has shamed himself and his position. HE MUST RESIGN NOW.

[Triana]

17. Pretty much. But you know...

...pretentious hypocrisy is the Hallmark of Republicans.

This is why Bill Clinton said: "...it takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did."

Just that type of hypocrisy is a GOP primary modus operandi.

[Armstead]

16. I can't figure out whether Issa is really smart or dumb as a stump

He is so blatantly hypocritical and phony that either he has figured out that he can get away with it....Or else is dumb enough to think he can get away with it.

[kentuck]

18. I think Democrats should call for an investigation on the investigator.

It seems very unethical, at the very least.

[dembotoz]

22. use the right word--inquisitor

not a investigation but a persecution

[Life Long Dem]

19. Obama used the word "if".

"If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that’s outrageous and there’s no place for it," he said.

"I've got no patience with it," he added. "I will not tolerate it and we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this."

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/13/18230271-obama-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups-outrageous?lite

[uponit7771]

20. At this point Issa should be investigated..... AT LEAST

[Kingofalldems]

21. Fake Democrats silent on this one

[Triana]

24. All Dems are silent...

...they ought to be shouting it from rooftops.

[beerandjesus]

23. This is all NADER'S fault!

[truebluegreen]

25. Color me shocked! nt

[aquart]

26. Issa needs to be defrocked.

[silvershadow]

27. Ah ha! Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups.

Just wanted to get this indexed by Google one more time.