That oughta shut them up

I AM MAD AS HELL!   .                       ..

So, I'm sitting here watching (OAN) as AG Jeff Sessions announces that the IRS, having been duly found guilty of using unlimited police powers against state enemies—in this instance Tea Party groups, will fork over (what, in news dispatches, is called a generous monetary settlement) $2.5 million in restitution.  While Lois Lerner's face was prominently displayed, Sessions made no mention of her criminal indictment ... because the Trump administration said it would not prosecute her over her role in the Tea Party targeting scandal (including, I guess, her perjured congressional testimony on the matter).  A further heavy blow was delivered to IRS Chief John Koskinen.  He will be replaced next year.  Wow.  Major Slap-down.

Judge To IRS: Start Naming Names

Think the IRS targeting scandal had dissipated? So did the IRS, but it got a very unpleasant surprise on Thursday in federal court. Judge Reggie Walton ordered the agency to start identifying the employees who took part in the targeting of conservative non-profit groups and to provide specific explanation for the delays in approval of that status for dozens of them. “Why hide the ball?” Judge Walton asked (via TaxProfBlog): [FULL]

Arrest Lois Lerner

The IRS seems to be in a constant state of administrative shambles.  Former IRS employees fired for falsifying documents, illegally accessing taxpayer information, and a range of other conduct, ethics, and legal issues are being rehired by the same agency that fired them.  This rehiring reportedly occurs despite flags and notes on the former-employee’s personnel file. The IRS claims that it’s too “cost prohibitive” to verify that the employees they hire had not already been fired by the agency. You can’t make this stuff up.

DO NOT HANG UP THE PHONE ....

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In 2015, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted the problem in a letter to the IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, explaining that “In a tax system based on voluntary compliance, the integrity of the tax administration process and protection of taxpayer rights is of paramount importance. To those ends, Congress put in place specific restrictions on government action in the examination process.” The strangest thing about the IRS is that Lois Lerner is not (NOT) in prison; and Donald Trump has left IRS Commissioner John Koskinen at the helm?!?. Meanwhile, the agency continue to bolster tax collection/political assassination weaponry with this killer.  Extrapolation must lead to the point where the IRS will deputize bill collection agencies to scrutinize tax return information for a commission.

Tough, when nobody wanted it in the first place

Hey There!

IRS subjects tea party groups to ... .

Obama's Waffen Schutzstaffel

IRS subjects tea party groups to new round of scrutiny, publicizes tax return data The IRS‘ battle against holdout tea party groups is heating up again, after the tax agency promised it would begin processing their long-delayed applications, but sent a new round of prodding questions demanding still more information. The IRS admitted in 2013 that it singled tea party groups out for intrusive scrutiny, including crossing lines by asking questions about the groups’ associations, meetings and even members’ reading habits. Some groups received multiple letters, each time further delaying their applications. More jarringly, the IRS then publicly released one of the sets of questions it sent to the Texas Patriots Tea Party — a move the group’s lawyer says puts secret taxpayer return information, supposed to be protected, out in the public. Tax experts say the IRS may be on safe legal ground, since the filing was made as part of a court case, and that’s one of the few narrow exceptions to strict IRS privacy laws. Still, the move to release the information has inflamed an already tense class action legal battle between the IRS and tea party groups who feel the agency is still targeting them more than three years after it promised to cease. “The IRS has taken the unprecedented step of publicly filing actual return information,” said Edward Greim, who is handling the case on behalf of more than 400 groups targeted by the IRS. [MORE] Well at least those involved have all been removed from office and indicted.  What's that? JFC!

Impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen?

Obama's Waffen Schutzstaffel

Republicans move to impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen House conservatives moved on Tuesday to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen over allegations that he misled investigators over the agency's inappropriate targeting of Tea Party groups. Many Republicans are skeptical of the impeachment, however, and so the House Freedom Caucus isn't optimistic that leadership will take up their cause. "I believe they are going to do a motion to refer to the Judiciary Committee or they are going to do a motion to table," Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, told reporters on Tuesday. "Either way, they are punting." Rep. John Fleming, R-La., introduced the resolution to impeach Koskinen on Tuesday afternoon. "[Koskinen] engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his duties as an officer of the United States," Fleming said on the floor. The filing of the resolution is the culmination of years of investigation into how and why the IRS applied extra scrutiny of Tea Party groups that filed for tax-exempt status. His impeachment is chiefly favored by members of the House Freedom Caucus, who forced John Boehner into retirement last year, but it has spread beyond the caucus to include House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and others who believe Koskinen oversaw the destruction of evidence that lawmakers were seeking as they investigated the targeting scandal. A GOP controlled congress was unable to nail  director of the Exempt Organizations Unit Lois Lerner, the "trigger man."  I then have zero expectation that this charade is going anywhere.  I do have an active hope that President Trump's DOJ will put this, and myriad other crimes perped by the Obamunists, under the microscope and send them to the pokey.

PSA- Phone Scam

Phone Scams Remain on IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams The IRS will never: * Call to demand immediate payment, nor will the agency call about taxes owed without first having mailed you a bill. * Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe. * Require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card. * Ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone. * Threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying. WASHINGTON — Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain a major threat to taxpayers, headlining the annual "Dirty Dozen" list of tax scams for the 2016 filing season, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. "There are many variations. The caller may threaten you with arrest or court action to trick you into making a payment,” Koskinen added. “Some schemes may say you're entitled to a huge refund. These all add up to trouble. Some simple tips can help protect you." Scammers make unsolicited calls claiming to be IRS officials. They demand that the victim pay a bogus tax bill. They con the victim into sending cash, usually through a prepaid debit card or wire transfer. They may also leave “urgent” callback requests through phone “robo-calls,” or via a phishing email. Many phone scams use threats to intimidate and bully a victim into paying. They may even threaten to arrest, deport or revoke the license of their victim if they don’t get the money. Scammers often alter caller ID numbers to make it look like the IRS or another agency is calling. The callers use IRS titles and fake badge numbers to appear legitimate. They may use the victim’s name, address and other personal information to make the call sound official. [Full] Got the first call a few weeks ago; very threatening voice-.  After ignoring the second call that day they stopped.  Today, sane thing but different people; but still threatening. After the second call no more ... so far.  There are  lot of people out there who are intimidated.  You know some like that, so warn them.

Hey, we already knew that

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YET What a shock. Judicial Watch discovered that top IRS officials, including Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, knew that the agency targeted conservative groups before they told Congress. Judicial Watch reported: The FBI documents also reveal that IRS officials stated that the agency was targeting conservative groups because of their ideology and political affiliation in the summer of 2011. According to one senior tax law specialist, “The case seemed to be pulled because of the applicant’s political affiliation and screening is not supposed to occur that way … [Redacted] said he thought the cases were being pulled based upon political affiliations.” And IRS senior official Nancy Marks, appointed by [then-acting Commissioner Steven] Miller to conduct an internal investigation stated, “Cincinnati was categorizing cases based on name and ideology, not just activity.” The FBI documents show the agents used a BOLO (Be On the Look Out) guides to look at “cases using the Tea Party term.” The agents interviewed an IRS Technical Advisor that reported to Lerner: [Redacted] attended a meeting in the summer of 2011. She was not invited, but she was talking to LERNER about something else in the office when LERNER mentioned that it would be interesting for her to attend … Only people from Washington, D.C. were in the room, to include HOLLY PAZ … At the meeting, it was disclosed that one of the ways Cincinnati was looking for cases was using the “Tea Party” term. They were calling the body of cases involving political activity “Tea Party” cases. The concern was that the IRS had put a label on the cases that would be problematic. [FULL] This will not be a prolem for a Trump administration.

Impeaching John Koskinen

The real interesting thing ... ...Will be seeing who, at least among Republicans, votes against impeaching the SOB.

IRS Enemies Revisited

Obama's Waffen Schutzstaffel   IRS Enemies List Revealed

On a final note, the Leftmedia has [sic] done nothing but circle the wagons. According to NewsBusters, “[I]t’s been 587 days since any network reported on the IRS scandal, when CBS This Morning made a mention of it on October 28, 2014. NBC last noted the targeting scandal 614 days ago and it’s been over two-years — a whopping 760 days — since ABC last mentioned it on the May 8, 2014 Good Morning America.” Hear no evil, see no evil, report no evil. [...] If you asked me whether I thought card-carrying members of the Socialist Democratic Party would, by way of their bureaucratic surrogates, use the IRS and other government agencies to target groups with the name “Patriot,” I would have said, “Of course.” If you asked me whether I thought they would get caught at it, I would have said “No,” because they’re smart enough to use “cutouts” between their office and the bureaucrats committing the offense. However, almost 500 other groups with “Patriot” or “Tea Party” in their name were not so fortunate. (For the record, this is not the first time that Obama sycophants in a powerful government agency have targeted Patriot and Tea Party groups. Read “Army Preps for Tea Party ‘Terrorists’,” a Patriot Post exclusive from the same time period the IRS began its targeting operations.) Cutouts are bureaucratic managers who act as surrogates to do the political bidding of elected officials. They are blamed and sacrificed for the “good of the cause,” in order to protect (read: “provide plausible deniability for”) elected officials who feign outrage and indignation at the violation of law in support of their political agenda. When the president of the United States is the elected official behind a culture of corruption and abuse of power, the layers of cutouts make it nearly impossible to find impeachable evidence of executive collusion. Needless to say, Barack Obama and his black-bag dirty tricks team learned well from their Democrat predecessors, FDR, JFK and Clinton, how to use the Internal Revenue Service to harass their opponents. But they also learned a few things from Richard Nixon about the importance of using cutouts. Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment after being caught on tape discussing the Watergate burglary with key staffers, where today those staffers would never directly discuss such abuse of power with a sitting president. [...] A legal and tax advisor to The Patriot Post informed us that the Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, our education fund advocating Liberty and constitutional integrity, clearly “met the criterion for the corrupt IRS inquisition,” but for a couple of reasons (which we can’t disclose publicly) we were passed over for review. She asked, “What’s it like being on Obama’s "enemies list.” I responded, “It’s like receiving a gold star on a badge of honor!” For the record, the IRS harassment of conservative groups was not limited to a few “low-level employees” in Cincinnati. The current complaint count involves Obama’s union thugs in at least three IRS regional offices who have targeted more than 500 conservative groups. However, almost 500 other groups with “Patriot” or “Tea Party” in their name were not so fortunate. (For the record, this is not the first time that Obama sycophants in a powerful government agency have targeted Patriot and Tea Party groups. Read “Army Preps for Tea Party ‘Terrorists’,” a Patriot Post exclusive from the same time period the IRS began its targeting operations.) Obama’s political and legal team certainly recalls Article II, Section 1 of the 1974 House impeachment against Nixon, which could be a template for a case against Obama today if not for all the cutouts: “He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” [...] 1. For 18-months, all tax exempt applicants with the words “Patriot” or “Tea Party” in their names were selected for review, however, the IG report said it was unclear who had ordered the IRS to target Patriot and Tea Party groups. Later that order was expanded to include “groups focused on government spending, government debt, taxes, and education on ways to ‘make America a better place to live’.” Then came groups with educational missions focused on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Notably, while the IRS Cincinnati office was stalling conservative group applications for tax exempt status, it awarded the Barack Hussein Obama Foundation its status in just 34 days. (So, the Obama administration rejects terrorist profiling, but supports Patriot profiling…) 2. IRS section chief Lois Lerner knew about the profiling in June 2011, but in March 2012, the former head of the IRS, Douglas Shulman, testified before Congress “that the agency was not targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status as ‘social welfare’ groups.” Shulman’s denial undoubtedly provides Obama political cover, even though he logged into the White House 157 times since 2009 – more often than any Cabinet member. Even Obama’s close friend, AG Eric Holder, only logged in 62 times. Shulman’s chief of staff, Jonathan M. Davis, met with Obama staff at the White House and adjacent Eisenhower office building more than 300 times between 2009 and 2012. Shulman’s predecessor, Mark Everson, visited the White House only once in his four years as IRS head under President George W. Bush, and said he might as well have been in “Siberia.” [This report is quite lengthy.  Needless to say, anyone with a brain must ask "How is it that Obama has not been impeached?" Do Obama’s Scandals Matter? Acc. to Nixon’s Impeachment Articles, YES.

IRS SCAM CALLS

Scam Central What's Worse Than The IR? A Russian Scam IR* So, we saw Algonquin J. Calhoun, CPA yesterday to get our 2014 taxes finalized.  About three hours ago our phone rings and the message is from the IRS stating that they are levying a tax lien against us for failure to pay, and everything we have is forfiet.  Please press* now.  Since I didn't listen live I could not press *, nor would I because the IRS NEVER EVER contacts customers via telephone.  There is little doubt that what triggered this call was  Calhoun e-Filing our return.  He told us that he has to tweak his computer every day to thwart hackers who are able to glean name and phone numbers from e-Files, so we were forewarned.  My question still is, if they can tweak the transmission to get name and phone number, what's to stop them from getting the whole kit?  Watch your bank accounts carefully. * I say Russian scam, because they are responsible for a goodly share of criminal spammery.

More Joy From Obama's Schutzstaffe

The Obamissariat

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed Tuesday that illegal immigrants granted amnesty from deportation under President Obama’s new policies would be able to get extra refunds from the IRS for money they earned while working illegally, as long as they filed ... more >

Department of Injustice

Police State          Department of Injustice KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE? EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR ...  (Successive secret-police chiefs were themselves executed by Stalin, or, in the case of the infamous Beria, by Stalin’s successors, in the only step they could agree upon before a rending struggle for power between themselves.) The United States certainly has not plumbed these depths, but the allocutions are just as nauseatingly excessive and obviously extorted by terror in sentencing — psychological, as opposed to physical, torture. I was one of those who warned of the criminalization of policy differences in the Watergate affair, but unfortunately the inexplicable and uncharacteristic mismanagement of the whole tawdry sequence of events by President Nixon made it relatively easy for his enemies to drive him from office. It was bound to be an intoxicating experience, and beneath the confected sanctimony of many of the Watergate principals in the media and law enforcement, the joys of the assassin were evident. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, whose notes reveal that he distrusted Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting, was audibly rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of going over the same ground again in the piffling Iran-Contra affair of 1986. The infamous Ted Stevens affair has already been exposed as fraudulent withholding of evidence by the prosecutors, but only after the seven-term senator narrowly lost his bid for reelection and one of the prosecutors committed suicide. The protracted persecution of long-serving New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno has been another glaring example of the political corruption of the bench and the prosecutors. Most recently, the harassment of Republican governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin by the Democratic district attorney of Milwaukee, the pursuit of conservativecommentator Dinesh D’Souza, the partisan indictment of Governor Perry of Texas for exercising his veto right, and the antics of the IRS In the assault on Governor Scott Walker, Democratic district attorney John Chisholm’s long-running criminal investigation of the governor and his entourage ended in 2013, and has been followed by a criminal investigation into the most prominent individuals and organizations that support the governor, expressing concern about improper collusion in support of the governor’s political, if not statutory, offense, which was to curb rapacious and irresponsible public-sector unions. This is a John Doe investigation (so called because it is a blind search into whether a crime was committed at all, and if so by whom — a procedure certain to lead to abuse).   The pursuit of Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama was always dubious, and the long persecution of the former House majority leader, Tom DeLay of Texas, has finally collapsed as the scandalous abuse of a partisan prosecution service that it always was.] [Full Department of Injustice] skoonj

Obama's Gestapo

Police State          TEXT “ (The White House petition has gone missing) That is a snippet from yesterday's church bulletin.  I made note of it because it is, to my knowledge, the first time a parish priest has come this close to condemning anything this filthy Obama government (silence of the West) have perped.  Now this ... IRS Strikes Deal With Atheists To Monitor Churches First Amendment: Government's assault on religious liberty has hit a new low as the IRS (used by Obama as a personal  Gestapo) settles with atheists by promising to monitor sermons for mentions of the right to life and traditional marriage. A lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) asserted that the Internal Revenue Service ignored complaints about churches' violating their tax-exempt status by routinely promoting political issues, legislation and candidates from the pulpit. The FFRF has temporarily withdrawn its suit in return for the IRS's agreement to monitor sermons and homilies for proscribed speech that the foundation believes includes things like condemnation of gay marriage and criticism of ObamaCare for its contraceptive mandate. The irony of this agreement is that it's being enforced by the same Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division of the IRS that was once headed by Lois "Fifth Amendment" Lerner and that openly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups. Among the questions that the IRS asked of those targeted groups was the content of their prayers. Those who objected to the monitoring of what is said and done in mosques for signs of terrorist activity have no problem with this one, though monitoring what's said in houses of worship is a clear violation of the First Amendment. Can you say "chilling effect"? Congress can make no laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion. So it's not clear where the IRS gets off doing just that by spying on religious leaders lest they comment on issues and activities by government that are contrary to or impose on their religious consciences. Our country was founded by people fleeing this kind of government-monitored and mandated theology last practiced in the Soviet Union. The FFRF cites as its authority the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which states that tax-exempt groups cannot endorse candidates. A 2009 court ruling determined that the IRS must staff someone to monitor church politicking. The FFRF claims that the IRS has not adhered to the ruling and that the settlement amounts to enforcing both the Johnson Amendment and the court ruling. Read More At Investor's Business Daily: ”

IRS, The Hunter

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CAMP IRS

Hitler's Mustache                “ A New, More Sinister IRS Scandal Let's Concentrate People Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents in prison. So who are the speech regulators seeking to impose government limits on the exercise of the First Amendment? Like bats in the belfry, they tend to congregate online at University of California at Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen’s election blog. Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act reveal Lois Lerner cooking up plans with Justice Department officials to talk about ways to criminally charge conservative groups that are insufficiently quiet. Larry Noble, a law professor now with the Soros-funded Campaign Legal Center, was cited in the emails as someone agitating to jail conservatives who “falsely” report on IRS forms that they are not engaged in political speech. Lerner talked about setting up meetings with Justice Department election lawyers who wanted to talk about making Noble’s dreams a reality — this after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised the idea of criminal charges for conservatives who are not sufficiently quiet, charges that they falsely completed an IRS tax exemption form. Their theory is a favorite among speech regulators in the Soros-funded left and academia. It goes like this: “Too much speech is bad (unless unions do it.) Groups who talk about things leftists find uncomfortable are necessarily political and thus should never have 501(c) tax exempt status. Criminally charge any group that said on their IRS tax exempt form that they were not political if they say things the left finds uncomfortable. Get Eric Holder’s Justice Department on the case.” The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal this is essentially what was going on behind the scenes at the IRS, DOJ, and with outside leftist interests. [...] Hans von Spakovsky, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, is intimately familiar with the scope and power of the speech regulators. He said: “Ever since I came to Washington, I’ve been shocked at the liberal politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, advocacy groups like Democracy 21 and Fred Wertheimer, and government bureaucrats at the FEC and the Justice Department who want to use the power of government to censor their opponents. They hate the First Amendment and would fit right into the Soviet Union.” [Full A New, More Sinister IRS Scandal] Remember this? I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.” Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious. [P.J.Media Eyewitness to the Ayers Revolution] ”

The IRS MESS

The IRS has become a partisan tool of the Democrats, a constitutional abomination that should be the basis of impeachment

The mess at the IRS is worse than people realize, and a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Internal Revenue Service's Executive Long-Term Taxable Travel, reveals widespread flouting of rules, and underreporting of income by senior IRS officials. Such a pattern and practice on the part of those charged with supervising (and prosecuting failure of taxpayers to comply with) tax law is a major scandal.
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The Internal Revenue Service has become a partisan tool of the Democrats, a constitutional abomination that should be the basis of impeachment - and use of the IRS against his political enemies was an article in the proposed articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon drafted with the help of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The GOP has a ready-made issue to take to voters. The IRS is easily the most-hated institution of government power. Evidence that it doesn't obey the laws it enforces against others is an electoral gimme for the GOP.As Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit comments dryly: "Rules are for the little people." Leona Helmsley didn't earn much love with that approach, and sticking that view to the IRS will ahve the same potentcy.

It is time to draft and pass in the House IRS reform legislation and to lay the groundwork for abolishing the agency in a wide-ranging tax simplification a d reform agenda to hold out for the public following the 2016 elections, if they have the wisdom to hand Congress and the Oval Office to the GOP. [FULL].

Dems ask IRS to crush opponents, "We already are!"

Just Precious

CALL IT

Police State Culture IRS smoking gun uncovered “ Scroll  IRS smoking gun uncovered by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp Feb. 6, 2014, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement calling attention to documents uncovered by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp proving that the proposed IRS regulations against 501(c)(4)s were planned while the targeting of the tea party was ongoing, and not in response to that scandal in 2013 as the Obama administration has contended: "President Obama can no longer hide behind his seemingly perpetual state of confusion over what is happening in his administration, as records now clearly show. The 2012 email released by Chairman Camp proves that the new IRS regulation restricting 501(c)(4) organizations' political speech was not in response to the scandal targeting the tea party or any confusion about what (c)(4) regulations mean, but was devised well in advance. "The IRS had a long-term plan to use its power to intimidate and stop small conservative groups from participating in the political process using the same tax-exempt status as groups like Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters that publish voter guides. "Congress can no longer stand idly assuming good will from this administration and it must use its power of the purse including any extension of the debt ceiling to expressly prohibit the implementation of these new IRS rules designed to squelch First Amendment rights of Obama's political opponents." To view online: http://tinyurl.com/lnsfnyt Wow, we finally have them cornered.  I guess articles of impeachment will be voted on PDQ now.  ”