IRS judge requiring IRS to appear under oath. Non-Vegas

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Originally posted by: hoops2
There were over 100 conservative groups who were subject to enchanced investigations; while only 7 liberal groups.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: Boilerman
I would argue that there is substantial evidence suggesting that Obama and the IRS committed crimes, but certainly nothing (yet) which would lead to conviction.

Given what you know now, PJ, do you believe that the IRS and/or President Obama, illegally targeted groups?

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I'm positive they didn't do anything "illegal".

Your allegation is that these targetings (I guess only the conservative ones because you pretend it didn't happen to liberal groups too) were ordered by the administration. There is no evidence of this..and the official investigation explained how the targeting came about as a result of IRS interpretation of law.

But let me humor you for 5 seconds. I'll live in your parallel universe where there is proof that your allegation is true.... it would still not be illegal. Was anyone charged when the IRS partisanly audited the NAACP under the Bush Administration? Did anyone go to jail? No. So even if your conspiracy theory had a shred of evidence it would likely be seen as scummy politics...but not "illegal".

If you ever get a shred of evidence I will be happy to call out scummy politics by Obama. But there's also some unflattering words you can use to describe people who accuse others of crime without evidence.

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Originally posted by: hoops2
The official at the center of the Internal Revenue Service tea party scandal once dismissed complaints that labor unions were not reporting millions of dollars in political activities on their tax forms, according to an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

In 2007, Lerner responded directly to a complaint that some major labor unions reported completely different amounts of political expenditures when filing with the IRS and the Department of Labor.

At the time of the email, Lerner was the Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS.
Lerner wrote, “We looked at the information you provided regarding organizations that report substantial amounts of political activity and lobbying expenditures on the DOL Form LM-2, but report little to no political expenditures on the Form 990 filed with the IRS.”

In 2006, the year leading up to Lerner’s email, the national headquarters for the AFL-CIO reported no direct or indirect political expenditures with the IRS on their 990 form, leaving the line 81a blank. That same year, the AFL-CIO reported $29,585,661 in political activities with the Department of Labor.

Also in 2006 the Teamsters Union reported no political expenditures with the IRS while at the same time reporting $7,081,965 with the Labor Department.

Again in 2006, Unite-Here reported no political activity with the IRS and $1,451,002 with the Labor Department.

In 2005, the National Education Association also reported no political expenditures with the IRS while at the same time reporting $24,985,250 with the Labor Department.

Labor union political spending overwhelmingly benefits Democrats. Todd told TheDNCF Lerner may have been playing favorites. Lerner has been accused of singling out tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status.

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