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IRS agents tell House committee that the targeting started in D.C.

IRS agents tell House committee that the targeting started in D.C. “One of the low-level employees said that the Washington office was ‘basically throwing us underneath the bus’ for an operation they had ordered and directed. And an employee described as being more senior said that he viewed the entire project as unfair and was so worried about being blamed for it later that he actually applied for another job in the summer of 2010. ‘I didn’t want my name in the paper for being this rogue agent for a project I had no control over,’ the more senior employee said.” No surprise, sh-t always rolls downhill from the top.

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GhostntheMachine says:

June 3, 2013 at 6:53 am

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/03/wife-of-irs-commissioner-shulman-was-part-of-ofa-occupy-dc-and-protestedtweeted-against-irs-targeted-groupsindividuals/
Red Robster says:

June 3, 2013 at 6:33 am

read part of an article local to Wooster, The TEA Party here has been the subj. of the infernal revenue svc.'s b.s. regarding non-profit status.

long past time we heated the tar and plucked the chickens.
hisham says:

June 2, 2013 at 8:37 pm

I never once believed their pathetic assertion that some low mid level, politically motivated, pencil pushers in 'Hoboken' were responsible for independently digging into the tax records of conservatives. I've been associated with government organizations for most of my adult life and nothing happens without having first being authorized from above. No mid level professional bureaucrat is going to risk his or her career by sticking their necks out and embare ass ing their bosses and their bosses' bosses without having gotten orders to commit a felony and assurances from their superiors that they will be insulated from legal recriminations first.
deepthinker says:

June 2, 2013 at 6:22 pm

Anyone still believing the lies out of the White House and the carnival barker? There is no way that this can be swept under the rug and or ignored. Yet, this is not the biggest prize. Benghazi is the big prize and this is just the ice cream for the cake.

As for the IRS, it is time to eliminate it once and for all. Then go to a national sales tax. If you dont buy something, you dont pay the tax, buy something and then there is the national sales tax of 15-20%. This will ensure all those that are making money in the black market are paying their taxes as well.