FBI, dragging feet on IRS probe, finally contacts tea party groups Contacts were due 7 months ago

The Washington Times, by Stephan Dinan, January 9, 2014

The FBI finally has begun to contact some of the tea party groups targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for inappropriate scrutiny in the first public signs that the administration’s criminal investigation is progressing.

A lawyer representing some of the tea party groups that battled the IRS for tax-exempt status told The Washington Times that a “small number” of his clients were recently contacted, seven months after the investigation was supposed to have begun.

The progress was revealed a day after The Times reported that the Justice Department lawyer who is leading the investigation into the IRS, Barbara Kay Bosserman, has donated more than $6,000 to President Obama’s presidential campaigns — a move that, for many Republicans, has called into question the entire investigation.

“They say the fox isn’t good to guard the henhouse; the fox is probably not good to investigate the henhouse, either,” said Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican. “I think these investigations need to be done by independent people outside of the administration.”

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IRS to get 'license to kill' groups that oppose Obama agenda

The Washington Times, January 7, 2014 — The Internal Revenue Service is getting a special new power: a “license to kill” group that oppose the Obama agenda. James Bond’s license to kill isn’t nearly as broad.

The power to tax is the power to destroy. Its new powers will let the IRS destroy certain groups, especially those connected to the Tea Party, by imposing a tax on their work and messages during campaign seasons. Even the value of volunteer work could be taxed.

Suspicion traces the plan directly to President Barack Obama, since he personally met with IRS chief counsel William Wilkins — an Obama political appointee and long-time supporter — in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012, two days before the IRS issued its key internal directives to target Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Now, unless Congress acts quickly to block them, new IRS regulations will deliver a death penalty to many of almost 100,000 grass-roots non-profits known as 501(c)(4) groups. They often provide information to the public about political issues, befitting their tax requirement to benefit social welfare.

The IRS wants to create a new bureaucratic definition that re-labels those common voter information activities by re-naming them “candidate-related political activity.” For short, IRS calls it CRPA, but CRAP would fit better.

This is actually a gag rule. But the IRS’s new speech restrictions do not apply to labor unions, trade associations, political parties, or other non-profit groups such as 501(c)(3)’s. The impact is limited to the 501(c)(4)’s, which are the favorite vehicle for Tea Party groups.

The Left also has 501(c)(4) non-profits which could be muzzled by the new rules. But the Obama Administration is notorious for selective enforcement, meaning it could choose to give a pass to friendly groups while it puts conservatives out of business. They could use this in efforts to shut down groups like the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity and the National Rifle Association, while ignoring People for the American Way, American Civil Liberties Union, USAction and the Democratic Leadership Council.

Here’s how the IRS’s new license to kill would work:

Canada Free Presss: Obamacare’s Data Hub

The federal government is asking us to not only allow all of our information to be in one place, but to trust them with it

The Affordable Care Act is so despicable, even the Republicans are beginning to see the reality that it must be repealed, not replaced.

Barack Obama, and his minions, know that they are losing ground, and are doing whatever they can to get support back for the federal health care law, while targeting individuals, and handing out waivers to allies, and delaying business killing mandates against companies.  Never mind that from a constitutional perspective, regardless of what the ideology-influenced Supreme Court Justices say (remember, those people are supposed to be apolitical, but their rulings, and the opinions attached to those rulings, are telling us otherwise),health insurance, and health care in general, is not an authority granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution in the first place.

As time passes, the truth about the dangers that Obamacare poses become more and more apparent.  None of it surprises those that have opposed the monstrosity from the beginning, be it rising health care costs, rising insurance premiums, tyrannical mandates, and unworkable programs.  In fact, they have been illegally amending it just to try to make some of the components work.  It is so complex, the law is unworkable, unenforceable, and too general. . . by design.

Ultimately, the plan is for all hell to break loose, for the failure of the system to be astronomical, and then Obama stepping in to save the day with federally controlled socialized medicine (a.k.a. Single Payer).

When the IRS and NSA scandals surfaced, Americans began to become more aware of the dwindling liberties we are experiencing under the hidden iron fist of the current administration (while blaming it on the previous administration).  As we wade through the turmoil of the Zimmerman Trial aftermath, we are realizing how divisive this nation is becoming, by design, under the tutelage of the race-baiting manipulators of the Obama administration.  We are discovering, with the alphabet scandals, that our privacy does not belong to us anymore.  This government, under liberal control, is determined to know everything about us, and use that information to control our every move.  We are aware, we think, of the intrusion of the federal government into our lives. . . yet, the real danger, the real liberty killer, is within the pages of the massive Affordable Care Act.

Obamacare’s big brother database, for those of us that have been on task since the beginning, is of no surprise.  The Obama administration hired 16,000 more IRS agents to enforce Obamacare, and we know how the IRS likes to target anyone that opposes Obama.  With all of that additional personnel also comes a Data Hub that is a massive comprehensive database of personal information being established by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the federally facilitated health insurance exchanges.

The presence of the idea of the centralized Data Hub is making some lawmakers nervous, and should be making you very nervous as well.

It brings to mind the famous quote by Ronald Reagan that essentially goes, “The most frightening words in the English language are, ‘Hi, we’re from the government, and we’re here to help.’”

The federal government has already shown that they can’t be trusted, and yet they are now doing what they can to access and store our personal information, all of it, in one location, under federal guardianship.  The potential for abuse with this Data Hub is enormous. The massive, centralized database will include comprehensive personal information such as income and financial data, family size, citizenship and immigration status, incarceration status, social security numbers, and private health information - though I wouldn’t doubt your political affiliation, and history, will be included, too. It will compile dossiers based on information obtained from the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, the Social Security Administration, state Medicaid databases, and for some reason the Peace Corps. The Data Hub will provide web-based, one-stop shopping for prying into everyone’s personal affairs.

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American Thinker, July 22, 2013: The IRS Intervened in Tea Party Elections

Did the IRS intervene in Federal election campaigns for Congress?

According to the Washington Times, U.S. Treasury investigative special agent Dennis Martel has uncovered a new example of political abuse. 

On March 9, 2010, Christine O'Donnell's personal income tax records were illegally accessed by a Delaware public official. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) reports that a previously-undisclosed "back door" to the IRS computer system was used to invade the privacy of Christine O'Donnell's tax records.

Who knew? It turns out that state government criminal investigators can directly -- though illegally -- access IRS records through a "back door." Along with O'Donnell, at least four other political candidates and four conservative donors have been identified so far as victims of this abuse.

A Congressional investigation of the IRS "back door" conducted by Sen. Charles Grassley [R - IA] is now under way. However, even Grassley, Martel, and the Washington Times have not yet put all the pieces together.

Dennis Martel and Sen. Grassley are missing details of how this IRS abuse cleverly sabotaged a U.S. Senate campaign. In this column, we connect the dots using this author's personal knowledge of the O'Donnell campaign.

In May 2013, the IRS was forced to admit that it had been targeting tea party organizations. Details have slowly dripped out concerning the involvement of IRS headquarters in Washington in the persecution of conservative activists. Cincinnati IRS staffer Elizabeth Hofacre has identified IRS attorney Carter C. Hull as supervising the inquisition of tea party applicants.

Then, in a July 18 hearing before Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee, Hull dropped a bigger bomb, revealing that the targeting of tea party groups and other conservatives was directed by the IRS Chief Counsel's office headed by Obama's political appointee William J. Wilkins.

Now, Dennis Martel's new revelation takes the scandal even farther, to individual conservatives and election campaigns. We have discovered how paranoid the IRS was about the tea party. After all, the tea party's mission was to fight taxes. The IRS took that very personally, it now appears.

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Letter to the Editor: Obama's Scandals, by CCTA Education Chairman, Nancy Murdoch

“We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.”

Those are the words of President Obama on October 2010. It’s quite apparent he meant it, and those in his administration used the tenor of that statement to be sure it happened.


Hundreds of conservative and Christian groups faced harassment and unfair treatment when they applied for 501(c)(4) status while left leaning groups were approved within months, not years. Some groups were targets of audits, FBI investigations, unreasonable demands, and tyrannical treatment by the government---the same government the president said we should trust. Donors to the Democrats got huge government loans (think Solandryl) for harebrained schemes that went up in fairy dust.

Firing the sitting IRS commissioner, Steven Miller (who will leave in June regardless) is only a token action. We have not heard the president withdraw his “punish” remark or clarify it, but we have heard him vilify the tea party, even though the biggest crime of the tea party is disagreeing with Obama’s big government schemes. When tragedy happens, he speaks of civility, but his own manner belies the statement. In fact, some would question where the priorities and loyalties of this administration lie. They have prosecuted more whistle blowers than all other administrations combined. When Gregory Hicks failed to goosestep to the demands of the State Department, he was demoted. Other individuals have had their lives turned upside down and virtually destroyed for daring to speak out against injustices.

When caught doing something nefarious, those in charge don’t know anything about anything. A low level bureaucrat is always cast as the fall guy. Generally the peon isn’t fired, but moved to another department, out of the limelight. One can’t help but question why so much responsibility is laid on individuals with no accountability and no names. We didn’t elect these people.

The main stream media (also known as the Obama Public Relations Firm) either under report or ignore stories critical of the Obama regime and/or their ideology. Benghazi got little coverage before the election, and what was reported was often incorrect. The Sandy Hook tragedy was covered 24/7. However, the trial and conviction of mass murderer, Kermit Gosnell, received scant notice. It appears innocent children are only important when they are gunned down, but ignored when they have their spines severed. Now AP is up in arms because they are on the receiving end of Chicago style politics. Those whose job it is to be skeptical of government and inform the public are cheerleaders until their ox is gored.

This corruption has had a devastating effect on the American people. We are divided as never before. We don’t trust the government, our elected leaders, or the media. From a president who tosses the word “fair” around so cavalierly, we see policy based on lies, thuggery, and incompetency. Transparency has become as opaque as a lead shield.

Some of us actually believe in the rule of law; the Obama administration---not so much. Winning elections is much more important than being honorable. The trappings of the presidency appear to be more important to this administration than actually doing the job. When will the American people learn we elected a “suit”, surrounded by sycophants?

Nancy Murdoch
Havelock, NC