Report: IRS deliberately chose not to fess up to scandal before election

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• Imagine that, the IRS selected to conceal the fact that it, the IRS broke several laws. Leaked confidential tax information to president quagmire and his followers and hid until well after the election.

  It's time for the IRS to become out of business.

  • I can only hope this will really get that ball rolling.

• They didn't chose not to, they were told not to.

  • Orders are orders comrade

• Look no further than George Soros, Valeri Jarrett, Obama, Holder, Pelosi, Clinton and Reid and off course, their adoring fans 'the MSM.'

  • You are missing a key player in this, PROPUBLICA. It is a very progressive leftist media operation that also does work with NPR. It is controled by the Sandler's. It was started by Herb & Marion Sandler, who are hardcore leftists who made zillions in the subprime meltdown...

    http://www.pursuingholiness.com/herb-marion-sandler-outraged-by-subprime-lending-but-not-too-outraged-to-make-millions-off-it/

    Herb & Marion Sandler outraged by subprime lending. But not too outraged to make millions off it.

    Herb and Marion Sandler may be the reason that SNL skit went down the memory hole.

    This March, 2008 New York Times article on the Sandlers is good for a laugh:

    “It starts with outrage,” Herb Sandler said. “You go a little crazy when power takes advantage of those without power. It could be political corruption — ”

    “Or subprime lending,” Marion interrupted.

    “The story of subprime is worse than anyone has written so far,” Herb said, shaking his head in dismay.

    “It is,” Marion said, nodding in agreement.

    You don’t say. And this -

    Lowell Bergman, a New York Times and “Frontline” contributor who has long been friends with the Sandlers, says much the same thing. “Herb doesn’t like crooks, liars, predatory lenders and lots of other people that you and I wouldn’t like,” he says. “He would like to put them out of business and throw them in jail.”

    It’s the hypocrisy, stupid:

    Herbert and Marion Sandler, a New York lawyer and Wall Street analyst respectively, bought a small California thrift in 1963 and built it into GDW — one of the largest thrifts in the nation. The company’s business was built on adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs. These were mortgages offered at low “teaser” rates that ratcheted upward as interest rates increased. They were often sold aggressively to unsophisticated home buyers who did not comprehend the vast financial risks they were taking, or who assumed that housing prices would rise high enough to provide a profit to them when they sold their houses. They were targets for lenders peddling mortgages that should have been stamped with a skull and crossbones, for these were among the most seductive and dangerous types of mortgage.

    I think I’ll hold my breath and wait for Congressional Democrats to investigate them, and at Herb’s own request, put them in jail. Yeah. That’s going to happen.

    And what they’ve done for mortgages, they’d like to do for investigative journalism, via ProPublica:

    ProPublica will offer its own test for the Sandlers’ approach to philanthropy. In the newspaper business, a good story that exposes wrongdoing is something to be proud of, quite apart from whether it produces change or puts someone in jail. But it is clear that the Sandlers have a larger vision for what their new organization will accomplish. “They used to tell me that they weren’t really interested in investigative journalism per se,” Lewis says. “But they saw it as a way to make the world a better place.”

    ...PROPUBLICA is neck deep in this scandal as well. The IRS leaked docs to them illegally, & I will be interested to see if ANYTHING will be done to ANYONE involved will be seriously punished. From Obama on down.

    • Great point. IRS records being used is a crime. It should elicit criminal punishment.