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To: i-node who wrote (805920)	9/10/2014 1:52:57 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579982

>> they never ever see the nuances You mean like when you dolts try to claim Obama is no worse than Bush with his signing statements because the quantity of Bush signing statements was higher? Huh? He is much less worse than Bush............and he at least understands what his signing statements mean. >> He knows what the fuck he's doing You, apparently, are one of the few who believes this. LOL. Only your echo chamber believes otherwise. -More than half of all Americans say Obama has done more to divide the country than unite it (55 percent to 38 percent). Look at who thinks like you and your cohort...........bigoted whites, less educated, Republican, old, mid-westerners/southerners: -

To: i-node who wrote (805920)	9/10/2014 7:04:30 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By Taro Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579982

BREITBART NEWS TARGET OF IRS AUDIT... Cruz Questions... U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today sent the following letter to the Internal Revenue Service regarding its decision to audit Breitbart News Network, LLC. The full text of the letter is available here. Dear Commissioner Koskinen: I write to express deep concern over the recent announcement by Breitbart News that the Internal Revenue Service recently notified the Breitbart News Network, LLC that it would be subject to a far-reaching, burdensome, and open-ended audit. As you know, the Breitbart News Network LLC is a conservative-leaning press outlet. It has editors and reporters who cover daily political news and regularly breaks stories that are critical of the Obama Administration's policies. To conduct this audit, Breitbart News Network, LLC was asked to provide the IRS with all of its organizational documents, financial records, W-2s, W-4s, 1099s, and K-1s filed, personal income tax returns for each member of the company, payroll tax forms, information regarding properties and assets acquired by the company, bank statements, and array of other records documenting revenues, expenses, and depreciation costs. This media audit, coupled with the recent proposal of 49 Senate Democrats to amend the Constitution to give Congress plenary power to regulate political speech, paints a disturbing picture of a coordinated assault on the First Amendment. In another time, under another Administration, the decision to audit a conservative news organization might not have risen to a worrisome level of concern. However, given the IRS's disturbing track record of illegally targeting conservative organizations-including the IRS recently paying a $50,000 settlement for having wrongfully leaked a conservative group's confidential tax information-and the persistent refusal by the current Department of Justice to meaningfully investigate or prosecute those crimes, the decision to audit Breitbart News Network, LLC appears highly questionable. For the IRS to behave like a partisan political organization, targeting media organizations whose views differ from the President's, would represent a gross abuse of power. It would undermine the statutory mission and integrity of the IRS. And it would likely subject IRS employees to criminal prosecution. I very much hope that is not the case. I would therefore like to ask you the following questions: How many other news organizations have been audited since President Obama has been in office? How many of them could be identified as conservative- or liberal-leaning? Have any other news organization been subjected to this sort of far-reaching and oppressive inquiry, including requesting the personal tax records of editors and reporters? At what point does the IRS decide to take action to audit a news outlet? Does the IRS worry that its extremely burdensome auditing process could effectively silence the press? Previously, Senator Durbin wrote the IRS asking that it examine the tax-exempt status of Crossroads GPS, a Republican organization that spends money electing Republicans. Did the IRS ever receive any communications from any elected official asking it to examine Breitbart News Network, LLC? Who, precisely, is responsible for making the decision to audit Breitbart News Network, LLC? I appreciate your timely response. Sincerely, Ted Cruz United States Senator