{"id":18783,"date":"2013-05-14T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18783"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:32:08","slug":"what-has-happened-to-the-country-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18783","title":{"rendered":"What Has Happened To The Country I Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/05\/14\/Progressive-Group-Says-IRS-Gave-Them-Confidential-Docs-On-Conservative-Groups\">Breitbart.com<\/a> is reporting today that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> passed the confidential <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Application software\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Application_software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">applications<\/a> for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax exemption\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_exemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">tax-exempt status<\/a> of nine conservative groups to the progressive group <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ProPublica\" href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">ProPublica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The same IRS office that deliberately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/irs-apologizes-for-inappropriately-targeting-conservative-political-groups-in-2012-election\/2013\/05\/11\/ea5d5790-ba0e-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html\">targeted<\/a>\u00a0conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/what-karl-roves-dark-money-nonprofit-told-the-irs\">late last year<\/a>&#8230; In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cincinnati\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.1,-84.5166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=39.1,-84.5166666667 (Cincinnati)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Cincinnati<\/a> office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved\u2014meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/what-karl-roves-dark-money-nonprofit-told-the-irs\">six<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/controversial-dark-money-group-among-five-that-told-irs-they-would-stay-out\">of those<\/a> public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These people make <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Richard Nixon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Nixon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Richard Nixon<\/a> look like an amateur.<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>On Friday, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States House Committee on Ways and Means\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">House Ways and Means Committee<\/a> is scheduled to hold a formal hearing on the IRS conservative targeting scandal. IRS Commissioner <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Steve Miller (musician)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemillerband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Steve Miller<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treasury_Inspector_General_for_Tax_Administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration<\/a> J. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Russell George\" href=\"http:\/\/www.russellgeorge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Russell George<\/a> are slated to testify.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At what point does someone other than the lower level employees take responsibility for these actions?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=115ce52c-64a7-427e-9244-03c6d5af5540\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart.com is reporting today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) passed the confidential applications for tax-exempt status of nine conservative groups to the progressive group ProPublica. The article reports: The same IRS office that deliberately targeted\u00a0conservative groups applying for tax-exempt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5531,284,678,5545,5547,5546,2209,283],"class_list":["post-18783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cincinnati","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-propublica","tag-russell-george","tag-steve-miller","tag-tax-exemption","tag-treasury-inspector-general-for-tax-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18787,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions\/18787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}