"Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.

The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed “icky.” (That’s right. “Icky.”)

“The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS’s targeting of conservative applicants,” the Oversight report states. “Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS’s targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.”

Here are six major takeaways from the report:

1. The IRS admitted that the front office was “spinning” about the targeting rumors as early as 2012, after IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman denied the tea party targeting to Congress...[more detail follows]

2. Then-IRS commissioner Steven T. Miller almost broke down and told the truth about the tea party targeting at a July 2012 hearing, but Lerner’s sidekick Nikole Flax told him not to''... [dittos for this and the following]

3. The IRS definitely treated tea party applications by a different standard than applications from other (c)(4) groups...

4. Lois Lerner expressed her frustration about having to potentially approve a lot of groups, and her colleagues in the agency assured her that she wouldn’t have to...

5. So the IRS reached out to outside advisers to help come up with ways to deny tax-exempt status to “icky” organizations...

6. A May 2011 email from a lawyer in the IRS chief counsel’s office made clear that the agency sought to use a new “gift tax” to target donors to nonprofit political groups...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/22/bombsh...rvative-groups/

Now the question is: will anything substantial, curtailing the power of the IRS, indictments of the key IRS players, resultfrom all this?

Bleh. Who cares. This is going to be another investigation that doesn't get one person fired or arrested. The GOPe is in charge of this and they hate the Tea Party more than the Rats do.

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Bleh. Who cares. This is going to be another investigation that doesn't get one person fired or arrested. The GOPe is in charge of this and they hate the Tea Party more than the Rats do.

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Beat me to it.

My initial response was and .................................

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Maybe, just maybe, the American public is moving towards the majority Tea Party. We can hope the trend is that way. Don't rule that out. Remember what happened after Jimmy Carter. Our current situation is plenty bad and comparable. The enemies are within this time. That's the only difference I see.

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