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Internal Emails Indicate IRS Targeting Designed By Low-Level Staffers
Internal IRS emails analyzed by the Wall Street Journal indicate -- albeit not conclusively -- that the agency's targeting of conservative groups was designed by low-level employees in the Cincinnati office.
The Journal notes that the emails don't rule out involvement by high-level officials by they also don't contain any evidence that the tareting scheme was developed by anyone other than low-level staffers.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/internal-emails-indicate-irs-targeting-designed-by-low
Internal IRS emails analyzed by the Wall Street Journal indicate -- albeit not conclusively -- that the agency's targeting of conservative groups was designed by low-level employees in the Cincinnati office.
(House Oversight) Committee staff on Wednesday released several documents related to the matterincluding the IRS emails and a 2012 statement by Ms. Lernerthat helped provide a clearer picture of what happened. The criteria were developed by an IRS screening group in Cincinnati "based on cases they were seeing," Cindy Thomas, a supervisor in the Cincinnati office, wrote in a June 2011 email to an official in Washington. "When the screening group starts seeing new type cases that have similar issues, they meet and come up with criteria to identify 'emerging issue' and elevate information," she wrote.
In another email from June 2011, a screening manager in Cincinnati, John Shafer, outlined the criteria the group was using to select applications for extra review. They included references in the case file to "tea party," "patriots" or "9/12 Project"; issues such as government spending, debt and taxes; advocacy or legislative activity to "make America a better place to live"; and "statements in the case file that are critical of how the country is being run."
The Journal notes that the emails don't rule out involvement by high-level officials by they also don't contain any evidence that the tareting scheme was developed by anyone other than low-level staffers.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/internal-emails-indicate-irs-targeting-designed-by-low
When the WSJ starts debunking Republican scamdals using information released by Issa's committee, it's time to get suspicious.
The problem for Republicans is they're trying to create the impression that this has something to do with Obama, and the Bush appointee who headed up the IRS is denying involvement. The only people being ensnared by their witchhunt is them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2888580
Someone should let Boehner know: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022889651
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Internal Emails Indicate IRS Targeting Designed By Low-Level Staffers (Original Post)
ProSense
May 2013
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)2. they will still try to create the impression
nt
ProSense
(116,464 posts)4. Yes. n/t
Pragdem
(233 posts)3. They deserve a promotion. nt
deurbano
(2,895 posts)5. Democrats should insist on expanding the investigation to look at IRS emails during the Bush years..
regarding the All Saints Church in Pasadena... the NAACP... Greenpeace. The Republicans weren't previously interested in looking at those IRS scandals, but now that they are are so determined to get to the bottom of things....
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/14/when_the_irs_targeted_liberals/
randome
(34,845 posts)6. Obama used his Martian time machine to WRITE those emails last year!
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