>> ..if I were a gov't employee and I was threatened with 11 years imprisonment, I would plead the 5th too.
Sure, as would I. But I would only be threatened with imprisonment if I had broken the law.
No, there is no evidence she broke the law. There is only innuendo just like in the McCathy era. Rs are on witch hunts again......if they ever stopped..........and we all know that innocent people get fucked over during witch hunts.
It is pretty evident that there was a conspiracy to go after the conservative organizations and that is something the IRS simply cannot be permitted to do. The Republicans didn't permit it when Nixon did it and they sure as hell shouldn't when Obama is doing it.
Where is your evidence?
>> No matter what reasonable explanation is given, these issues which might provide Rs with a way to hang Obama never die.
Apparently, you don't understand what has happened. There has been no explanation, reasonable or otherwise. There has been an unapologetic IRS administrator, an essential witness taking the 5th, a lot of unexplained, unusual IRS traffic at the White House, inexplicably missing emails that were required, under the law, to be kept, found emails that are incriminating, plus the circumstantial statistical evidence that crimes were committed.
Dude, you're confused............there has been a lot of reasonable explanation......just like with all the other witch hunts undertaken by the right. You all don't want to hear it:
Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review reported in 2011 that a number of non-profit news organizations saw their applications delayed for years after being flagged for additional review. [55] In 2013, Chittum linked that scrutiny to the investigation, reporting that non-profit news organizations and Tea Party groups were placed in the same "Emerging Issues" category by IRS reviewers, which was a category flagged for additional questioning. He stated that "Rather than the Nixonian conspiracy that George Will and The Wall Street Journal editorial page so darkly warned about—with zero evidence—you have a routine bureaucratic procedure meant to bundle potentially problematic applicants together for further review." [47]
Media Trackers, a conservative organization, applied to the IRS for recognition of tax-exempt status, and received no response after waiting 16 months. When the organization's founder, Drew Ryun, applied for permanent tax-exempt status for an existing tax-exempt organization with what he said was a "liberal-sounding name" ("Greenhouse Solutions"), that application was approved in three weeks. Ryun has stated he believes that Greenhouse Solutions benefited from its name (although the quick approval might also be due to the fact that Greenhouse Solutions was already operating as a nonprofit and was already on-file with the IRS.) [56] Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of conservative group True the Vote, filed a lawsuit claiming that her organization's tax-exempt status was unfairly delayed for three years, and alleging that she and her family's small manufacturing business were chosen for retaliatory investigations by the IRS, OSHA, the ATF, and the FBI. [57] [58] [59]
An investigation by The New York Times reported that several organizations selected for scrutiny by the IRS engaged in activities that could be construed as political. The Ohio Liberty Coalition, whose application was delayed in excess of two years, sent emails to their members regarding Mitt Romney presidential campaign events and handed out Romney "door hangers" while canvassing neighborhoods. Former IRS officials and tax experts say this type of behavior would provide a "legitimate basis" for additional scrutiny. Ohio State University law professor Donald Tobin said: "While some of the I.R.S. questions may have been overbroad, you can look at some of these groups and understand why these questions were being asked." [60]
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>> It didn't bother me because Bush/Cheney was screwing up big time.
So, in your eyes Bush and Cheney are bad so these investigations are good. Never even OCCURS to you that most people see what Obama has done as bad. Never crosses your mind that you are in a minority who stills believes your votes were sensible. Wake up and smell the coffee. The Obama administration is a failure and it isn't because of Darrell Issa. It is because the man is grossly incompetent. That he is black has nothing to do with it. I warned you he was incompetent before you voted for him. All you had to do was open your eyes.
Not just in my eyes. Most Americans saw Bush/Cheney as screw ups by the end their administration. Only you and a few Rs think they were brilliant. They were jackasses........big ones...........and they hurt the nation badly.
As for Obama, he is one of our better presidents. His ratings would be much higher if the GOP lying machine wasn't so active and Rs hadn't become so partisan/ideological. Even with that, Obama is the second president since WW II to win more than 51% of the vote in a presidential election...........which means, Dave, you are FOS and your fantasy world has taken over your reality.........again. |
