{"id":22173,"date":"2014-03-07T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22173"},"modified":"2014-03-07T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:37:48","slug":"the-irs-scandal-summed-up-in-one-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22173","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Scandal Summed Up In One Paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/examiner-editorial-lois-lerner-stays-silent-to-protect-someone-outside-the-irs\/article\/2545145\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Examiner<\/a> summed up the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"IRS Contact Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/free-tax-tips-calculators\/tax-help-articles\/General-Filing\/IRS-Contact-Information.html?action=ga&amp;aid=64623&amp;out=vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"handrblock\">IRS<\/a> scandal in one paragraph:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>These simple questions \u2013 each based on indisputable facts \u2013 establish that somebody outside of the IRS told her they wanted the tax agency to \u201cfix\u201d something involving groups seeking <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"501(c) organization\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/501%28c%29_organization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">501(c)(4)<\/a> tax status, that she directed subordinates to begin a (c)(4) project she feared could be seen as \u201cpolitical,\u201d that she viewed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Tea Party\" href=\"http:\/\/teaparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Tea Party<\/a> groups as \u201cdangerous,\u201d and that she ordered that such groups be subjected to \u201cmulti-level review.\u201d Those are the four essential points of the IRS scandal: Who ordered the tax agency to get involved, who in the tax agency responded, who they targeted and what actions they took. She cannot answer these questions because, as she herself has claimed, that would be incriminating. Lerner and others must hope Issa doesn\u2019t already have the answers.<\/strong><\/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_h.png?x-id=24b820ac-ddf2-47af-84eb-073d66b87018\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Examiner summed up the IRS scandal in one paragraph: These simple questions \u2013 each based on indisputable facts \u2013 establish that somebody outside of the IRS told her they wanted the tax agency to \u201cfix\u201d something involving groups &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22173\">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":[187,608,284,678,1531,5796,528,189,430],"class_list":["post-22173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-darrell-issa","tag-fifth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-issa","tag-lois-lerner","tag-tea-party","tag-united-states-house-committee-on-oversight-and-government-reform","tag-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173","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=22173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22175,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173\/revisions\/22175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}