@mott-the-hoople saidThe case is about corruption ............................... in the Trump administration DOJ and its higher ups in the IRS. The underlying facts are that the IRS put some shortcuts in their screening process for what political groups might not be entitled to tax exempt status; both conservative and liberal groups got added scrutiny. However, because this happened during the Obama administration dozens of right wing groups filed dubious lawsuits. None were really going anywhere, but when Jeff Sessions became AG he stopped contesting the lawsuits and conceded the allegations in them. This was all for obvious political reasons.
I swear, the obama administration will go down as the most corrupt in American history.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/true-the-vote-wins-stunning-court-ruling-against-irs-in-lois-lerner-scandal
What's more it appears from that article that the present IRS is making baseless factual concessions which will greatly increase the amount of damages that these groups will get from the US government. So, we have a right wing administration in cahoots with right wing organizations to get them more taxpayer dollars which those organizations can then use to support - guess who? Yep, the Trump re-election effort.
It sure is corrupt, Mott.
@suzianne saidLook at this ad hominem.
You are as stupid as they come.
That's exactly where Trump will take us if he had his way.
Almost every single department under his cabinet appointees has become as corrupt as the day is long. If they're not corrupt yet, it surely isn't because of Trump, it's because of patriots in those departments who refuse to go down his fascist road. This is the real swamp. Trump brought it with him.
To think that we recently saw people hating on Elader for his comments against you, but here you are reveling in ad hominem attacks against others.
For those not familiar with this non-scandal:
The IRS must review applications from groups that wish to claim various types of tax-exempt status. Although most people are familiar with so-called 501(c)(3) organizations, commonly known as charities, there are several other types of organizations that are tax-exempt (although donations to them are not tax deductible) for other reasons. The story here revolves around applications for 501(c)(4) status, or what are commonly known as social welfare organizations.
In early 2013, one of the Treasury Department’s inspectors general issued a report saying that the IRS had used inappropriate methods to screen applications for 501(c)(4) status. Because such groups are prohibited from spending the majority of their funds on political activities, IRS screeners thought that it made sense to sort applications first by looking at groups whose names seemed obviously political.
We now know (as I wrote in my October 9, 2017 column) that the screeners used search terms that implicated both right-wing and left-wing groups—terms like “tea party,” “patriot,” and “9/12,” but also “occupy,” “green,” and similarly suggestive words. Such groups’ applications for 501(c)(4) status were then subjected to more exacting scrutiny, to determine whether they truly met the legal standards for social welfare (that is, mostly non-political) groups.
Even though this might have seemed like a sensible approach, it was wrong, amounting to having a government agency make decisions on the basis of apparent political views rather than on the law. The inspector general’s report made clear that, although it took some time to fix the problem, the non-lawyers at the IRS who had come up with the screening idea had been set straight, and there was no ongoing violation of the proper procedures for processing applications.
Importantly, at the time that the inspector general’s report was going to be released, a relatively senior IRS official gave a speech at a public conference at which she acknowledged the misconduct, made clear that the problem had been solved, and apologized for what had happened.
Lois Lerner might have hoped that her actions were going to defuse any potential problems, but instead it turned her into a villain in the eyes of conservatives. She was fired from her job at the IRS and subsequently endured public pillorying and even death threats.
Ever since, Republicans have been claiming that this is all a huge political scandal. Importantly, however, they are not merely saying that some IRS employees did something wrong. After all, everyone—including the IRS itself—readily admits as much. Republicans, instead, are absolutely certain that this was a political hit job orchestrated by Barack Obama’s minions.
In various columns that I have written about the non-scandal, I have noted that this would have been one of the least effective ways to politically damage one’s opponents ever conceived. If Obama wanted to harm his detractors, slowing down tax-exempt applications by small local conservative groups would not show up on the top-100 list of ways to do it. The very idea is laughable.
Even so, Republicans were immediately convinced that Obama and his people were using the IRS’s screening of social welfare groups as a political weapon. Congressional Republicans then launched multiple taxpayer-funded investigations that turned up nothing again and again. Somehow, however, the story would not die.
https://verdict.justia.com/2018/03/08/damage-wake-non-scandal-irs
@no1marauder
"The case is about corruption ............................... in the Trump administration DOJ and its higher ups in the IRS"
All you have is lies isn't it?
@suzianne saidjust don't have any proof do you? LOL
You are as stupid as they come.
That's exactly where Trump will take us if he had his way.
Almost every single department under his cabinet appointees has become as corrupt as the day is long. If they're not corrupt yet, it surely isn't because of Trump, it's because of patriots in those departments who refuse to go down his fascist road. This is the real swamp. Trump brought it with him.
@philokalia saidIf one is going to consistently use lies to claim that Clinton or Obama are corrupt, and then put their head in the sand when faced with clear examples of the corruption of Trump's White House, then one obvious conclusion that can be easily drawn is that such a person is severely intellectually challenged.
Look at this ad hominem.
To think that we recently saw people hating on Elader for his comments against you, but here you are reveling in ad hominem attacks against others.
Feel better, now?
@mott-the-hoople saidA police state? Listen to yourself man.
so you had rather have had a police state? that is where it was headed...obama corrupted every govt institution for political gain.
The US was not a police state under Obama and nor is any Western European country in the remotest like a police bloody state.
George W’s patriot act was worse for individual freedom than anything Obama implimented.
And trump is cracking down on the freedom of movement of targetted groups.
You have no clue what you’re jibbering on aboot!
@suzianne saidCalled the Deep State. CIA, NSA, FBI ad nausem. (sic) The USA govt is corrupt as any other. Try to change it you get Kennedied or Arkancided. Freaking Assange is a hero and they're gonna kill him. Which by the way is illegal as he is not a US citizen
You are as stupid as they come.
That's exactly where Trump will take us if he had his way.
Almost every single department under his cabinet appointees has become as corrupt as the day is long. If they're not corrupt yet, it surely isn't because of Trump, it's because of patriots in those departments who refuse to go down his fascist road. This is the real swamp. Trump brought it with him.
@shavixmir saidpeople went to prison, some still are under obamas rule. Remember that movie producer loocked up over the benghazi lie about a movie being the reason for the attack? Recently democrats are imprisoning people on technical terms, gotcha traps.
A police state? Listen to yourself man.
The US was not a police state under Obama and nor is any Western European country in the remotest like a police bloody state.
George W’s patriot act was worse for individual freedom than anything Obama implimented.
And trump is cracking down on the freedom of movement of targetted groups.
You have no clue what you’re jibbering on aboot!
@kquinn909 said"Freaking Assange" is guilty of espionage against the US. He deserves to rot in jail.
Called the Deep State. CIA, NSA, FBI ad nausem. (sic) The USA govt is corrupt as any other. Try to change it you get Kennedied or Arkancided. Freaking Assange is a hero and they're gonna kill him. Which by the way is illegal as he is not a US citizen