IRS officials in Washington were involved in investigation of conservative groups
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_allComments.html?ctab=all_&
Shame of Washington Post for using emotionally inflammable language to inaccurately and false describe the situation.
CONSERVATIVE GROUPS were not targeted specifically groups with TEA PARTY and/or PATRIOTS in the name received closer scrutiny. CONSERVATIVES were not targeted. If people using TEA PARTY and/or PATRIOTS received extra scrutiny from the IRS, there is a simple explanation that has nothing to do with conservatism.
On February 18th, 2010, Joe Stack flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, IRS office, TARGETING THE IRS. One IRS agent was murdered in the terrorist attack and $38,000,000.00 worth of property damage occurred to the taxpayers of America.
With 24 hours the TEA PARTY PATRIOTS official Twitter account took credit for Joe Stack as one of theirs and called him "AN AMERICAN HERO".
https://twitter.com/TPPatriots/status/9351363311
Within hours an echo of this with the same exact words "AN AMERICAN HERO" appeared posted on the TEA PARTY PATRIOTS blog.
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/31...
Now notice that groups with TEA PARTY and/or PATRIOTS in their names only received further scrutiny AFTER the murder of one of theirs was applauded by a group with all those words in the name.
The IRS should not be giving tax-exempt status to terrorist groups whom are murdering their employees and correctly ought to give deep scrutiny to groups which would be taxpayer subsided terrorists.
There is nothing complicated or insidious about this. The IRS asked further questions in a questionnaire and asked for webpages and blogs to determine if these groups were terrorist related groups organizing home-grown terrorism.
The Questionnaires were three pages, or ONE-TENTH the length of the questionnaire that the Senate GOP-NRA just required of the EPA nominee.
