{"id":23178,"date":"2014-06-27T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23178"},"modified":"2014-06-27T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:10:39","slug":"the-initial-case-against-the-internal-revenue-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23178","title":{"rendered":"The Initial Case Against The Internal Revenue Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> continues and the Democrats<\/a> continue to obstruct the investigation, there is one part of the investigation that is finished.<\/p>\n

Scott Johnston at Power Line<\/a> reported yesterday that under a consent judgment entered earlier this week, the IRS agreed to pay $50,000 in damages to the National Organization for Marriage<\/a> (NOM). The IRS released the donor list of NOM to a gay rights group that opposed the legislation NOM was supporting.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

NOM\u2019s statement on the settlement is posted here<\/a>. The statement quotes NOM chairman John Eastman: \u201cIn the beginning, the government claimed that the IRS had done nothing wrong and that NOM itself must have released our confidential information<\/a>. Thanks to a lot of hard work, we\u2019ve forced the IRS to admit that they in fact were the ones to break the law and wrongfully released this confidential information.\u201d Hmmmm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That sounds strangely similar to what is happening in Washington<\/a> in the investigation of the IRS’s targeting of the Tea Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article at Power Line concludes:<\/p>\n

Reminder: The charge that Richard Nixon<\/a> \u201cendeavored\u201d to misuse the IRS made its way into the second of the three articles of impeachment<\/a> voted against him by the House Judiciary Committee<\/a>. Nixon\u2019s efforts to misuse the IRS were futile. They went nowhere. Nixon and his henchmen desired the IRS to \u201cscrew\u201d their political opponents, but their efforts were a pathetic failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nixon henchman Jack Caulfield astutely complained that the IRS was a \u201cmonstrous bureaucracy\u2026dominated and controlled by Democrats.\u201d As we have come to see, Caulfield was on to something. By contrast with Nixon\u2019s failures to misuse the IRS, the IRS has very effectively \u201cscrewed\u201d Obama<\/a>\u2019s political opponents, and we have yet to learn what the president knew and when he knew it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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