IRS admits to targeting Conservative groups

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VolsNSkinsFan said:
Apparently Issa has emails from Elijah Cummings to Lois asking her to investigate certain conservative groups.

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That is very serious allegations . If Issa has those Cummings may be up shat creek without a paddle. I would think Issa would go after Cummings full speed. No love lost between the two.
 
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Gramps said:
That is very serious allegations . If Issa has those Cummings may be up shat creek without a paddle. I would think Issa would go after Cummings full speed. No love lost between the two.
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Not Cummings specifically, but his staff. Which by proxy...

Basically asked ol' Lois to check up on a certain group. And the questions asked to said group were almost verbatim what his staff asked. And also, said group was one of those that had trouble getting approved.

Whoopsie!
 
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Grand Vol said:
Not Cummings specifically, but his staff. Which by proxy...

Basically asked ol' Lois to check up on a certain group. And the questions asked to said group were almost verbatim what his staff asked. And also, said group was one of those that had trouble getting approved.

Whoopsie!
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The article made it seem as if it's public information. So not sure if anything was illegal, however, I don't think a member of congress or his staff should be able to intimidate in such a manner.
 
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Vols520 said:
The article made it seem as if it's public information. So not sure if anything was illegal, however, I don't think a member of congress or his staff should be able to intimidate in such a manner.
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I'm not sure there was intimidation so to speak on the good Congressman's end. Having said that if your committee is investigating someone in which you had contacts concerning the very thing you are investigating, you should step down and request a replacement.

The Staff asked for info from he person they were investigating. And even if it wasn't for nefarious purposes, it still draws your credibility into question.
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
Apparently Issa has emails from Elijah Cummings to Lois asking her to investigate certain conservative groups.

:popcorn:
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Grand Vol said:
Whoops

Issa: Cummings hid interactions with IRS | TheHill
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volmaverick said:
New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote.

BREAKING: Emails Show Lois Lerner Fed True the Vote Tax Information to Democrat Elijah Cummings - Katie Pavlich


These people need to be in orange jumpsuits!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Guess we now know why Elijah Cummings was pitching a fit at the hearing!
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LOL. And I thought Issa and you guys were reaching before. I was way off.
 
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Vols520 said:
Come on man, it's not reaching.

It's clear they acted at best unethically, but nothing will come from this.

Can't wait for another Glen Beck thread though!
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As I read it he asked the same questions about the organization that had been asked before. Issa sends a public letter suggesting that he acted wrongly by not telling him, yet citing nothing saying he was supposed to, and so the far right blogosphere of course takes Issa's lead and portrays it as an intimidation tactic.

Its the same stuff that was being asked before. The whole point is that the exemption has changed over the years and political organizations are using it to hide campaign activity, which is wrong, whichever side of the aisle you are on, imo.
 
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lawgator1 said:
As I read it he asked the same questions about the organization that had been asked before. Issa sends a public letter suggesting that he acted wrongly by not telling him, yet citing nothing saying he was supposed to, and so the far right blogosphere of course takes Issa's lead and portrays it as an intimidation tactic.

Its the same stuff that was being asked before. The whole point is that the exemption has changed over the years and political organizations are using it to hide campaign activity, which is wrong, whichever side of the aisle you are on, imo.
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So you don't feel that a Congressman on the committee investigating potential abuses by the IRS is not in a particular compromising position if his staff asked for information on a group opposed to said Congressman in the past?

Get ****ing real and grow up. All concept of justice is dead if you even remotely try to brush this away. If you were to find out a juror had contact with your defendant client during a trial, you'd be screaming for a mistrial and a jury replacement.
 
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lawgator1 said:
As I read it he asked the same questions about the organization that had been asked before. Issa sends a public letter suggesting that he acted wrongly by not telling him, yet citing nothing saying he was supposed to, and so the far right blogosphere of course takes Issa's lead and portrays it as an intimidation tactic.

Its the same stuff that was being asked before. The whole point is that the exemption has changed over the years and political organizations are using it to hide campaign activity, which is wrong, whichever side of the aisle you are on, imo.
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Not pertinent to this situation in any way shape or form.
 
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Grand Vol said:
So you don't feel that a Congressman on the committee investigating potential abuses by the IRS is not in a particular compromising position if his staff asked for information on a group opposed to said Congressman in the past?

Get ****ing real and grow up. All concept of justice is dead if you even remotely try to brush this away. If you were to find out a juror had contact with your defendant client during a trial, you'd be screaming for a mistrial and a jury replacement.
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Nope.

And the situations are not comparable and not analogous.
 
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lawgator1 said:
As I read it he asked the same questions about the organization that had been asked before. Issa sends a public letter suggesting that he acted wrongly by not telling him, yet citing nothing saying he was supposed to, and so the far right blogosphere of course takes Issa's lead and portrays it as an intimidation tactic.

Its the same stuff that was being asked before. The whole point is that the exemption has changed over the years and political organizations are using it to hide campaign activity, which is wrong, whichever side of the aisle you are on, imo.
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Don't try and pull the whatever side of the aisle you are on bs. You are nothing but a partisan douche, who has zero interest in the truth as long as your side wins.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Nope.

And the situations are not comparable and not analogous.
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The forum filters prohibit me from saying exactly the term that's screaming in my head right now. But I will say it comes from a bull and happens to be in all caps.
 
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