{"id":19434,"date":"2013-06-26T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:13:36","slug":"19434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19434","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Investigation Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a copy of part of one of the letters the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">IRS<\/a> sent to a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Conservatism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservatism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">conservative<\/a> organization seeking tax-exempt status. This copy is taken from an article posted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/25\/twelve-different-irs-units-nationwide-targeted-conservatives\/\">Daily Caller<\/a> yesterday. The article states that there were twelve different groups at the IRS that targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"absimg\" style=\"left: -1px; top: -1px; width: 699px; height: 904px; clip: rect(1px, 698px, 903px, 1px); display: block;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-63951199e2.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2-49eeefbbb0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/3-f97f625abc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article at the Daily Caller reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">T<strong>he revelation disproves the suggestion by a top congressional <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrat<\/a> that only one IRS group was responsible for scrutinizing tea party and conservative <a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/25\/twelve-different-irs-units-nationwide-targeted-conservatives\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\">applications<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Group 7821, Group 7822, Group 7823, Group 7824, Group 7827, Group 7828, Group 7829, Group 7830, Group 7838, EOG-7887, and EOG-7888, and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax exemption\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_exemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Tax Exempt<\/a> and <a id=\"itxthook1\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/25\/twelve-different-irs-units-nationwide-targeted-conservatives\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Government<\/a> Entities Division in Washington, D.C. all targeted conservative groups between 2010 and 2012, according to documentation compiled by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"American Center for Law &amp; Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aclj.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">American Center for Law and Justice<\/a> (ACLJ), which has filed a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Class action\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Class_action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">class-action suit<\/a> against the IRS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ACLJ <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Senior Counsel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senior_Counsel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">senior counsel<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"David French (playwright)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_French_%28playwright%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">David French<\/a> told The Daily Caller:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe know that the <a id=\"itxthook7\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/25\/twelve-different-irs-units-nationwide-targeted-conservatives\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tax<\/a> Exempt and Government Entities Division in Washington, D.C. was involved, and that\u2019s where Carter Hull and Lois Lerner were working. We have 14 letters directly from Lois Lerner,\u201d French said. \u201cWhen Lois Lerner said on May 10 that this was just a few agents in <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>, we were literally holding in our hands 14 letters that she wrote to conservative groups.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not how the IRS is supposed to work. Why are we giving them more power in ObamaCare?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\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=cf2527ac-0442-4c99-b8d5-6c1c644cd5ec\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a copy of part of one of the letters the IRS sent to a conservative organization seeking tax-exempt status. This copy is taken from an article posted at the Daily Caller yesterday. The article states that there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19434\">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":[2378,5531,174,2593,284,5796,2209,615],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-center-for-law-justice","tag-cincinnati","tag-daily-caller","tag-david-french","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-lois-lerner","tag-tax-exemption","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","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=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19438,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/19438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}