As the Obama Administration attempts to deny any
involvement, knowledge, or soon they will probably say it is "old news," the
truth of the IRS scandal is much
broader.
The targeting of
conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS
acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report
obtained by ABC News.
By June 2011, the unit had
flagged over 100 Tea Party-related applications and the criteria used to
scrutinize organizations had grown considerably, flagging not just “Tea Party”
or “Patriot” in group names, but also groups that were working on issues like
“government debt,” “taxes” and even organizations making statements that
“criticize how the country is being run.”
Not only was the scandal broader than just tea parties
groups, it is coming out the blame is
not being properly attributed.
The agency blamed low-level employees in a Cincinnati
office, saying no high-level officials were aware.
The truth is the highest
levels in the IRS knew about the scandal by August of 2011 if not before. The next question is who above them
knew. It does not seem plausible that
the effort stopped there.
The report, done by the
Inspector General for the IRS, also shows that senior IRS officials in Washington
was aware of what was going on as early as August 4, 2011 when, according to
the report, the IRS chief counsel held a meeting with the IRS’s Rulings and
Agreements unit “so that everyone would have the latest information on the
issue.”
Taken as a whole this seems another part of the Democrat
effort to chill free speech. Whether it
is pressure on the Federal Election Commission, pushing for the “Disclose Act,”
asking the SEC to adopt political disclosure rules, etc. the left in America
continues its war on free speech.
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