Court orders US to pay conservative group $50K
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal court has ordered the U.S. government to pay $50,000 to a conservative group that says confidential information from its tax returns about its donors was published on the website of a political opponent.
The board chairman of the National Organization for Marriage said Tuesday that his group still wants to learn more about how the information from a 2008 tax form emerged from the IRS.
John Eastmans group opposes same-sex marriage. The information about his organizations donors ended up being published in 2012 by the Human Rights Campaign, which supports gay rights.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a consent judgment dated Monday ordering the U.S. to pay the $50,000.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/court_orders_us_to_pay_conservative_group_50k/
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)groundloop
(11,521 posts)Seems more plausible than the IRS handing out confidential information.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)If the insider is in a position to disburse information illegally without intervention, then the IRS is at fault by definition.
A politicized IRS damages everyone, and will only grow more out of control over time, as with all rogue government power consolidation. Red Team vs. Blue Team thinking is what they *want* you to do. Think about why.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)The National Organization for Marriage very well could have handed their information over to the other website so that they could then start screaming, "Woo! Woo! IRS! Evil! Impeach Obama!"
And I wouldn't be surprised if it went down exactly that way.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)Lerner pleaded the Fifth.
Quit being such a sucker for this manufactured red vs. blue bullshit. The real setup is power elites vs. the rest of us. Occupy had it right.