Sandy Clark, CGCS said: Wasn't I told there was nothing there with the IRS thing and that I should move on? It seems others don't quite agree with that and it is turning out to be as big or bigger of a scandal than Libya. 500 groups involved and it was just a couple of Rogue agents? This smells just as bad as Nixon's enemies list. So far, our President wasn't aware or not involved in Fast and Furious, the Benghazi story, the IRS issue or the AP issue. Eric Holder doesn't seem to know anything that is going on with any of these events. I believe the buck stops with them if I remember all of my management and leadership education. Even Chris tingle up the leg Matthews has turned on Obama. Liberal groups are now calling for Holders resignation. I think Carl Levin and a few other senators that insisted on the conservative 501-C-4 groups being investigated should themselves be investigated for perhaps instigating much of this. Oh, by the way, in the background is George Soros, funding much of the attack on conservative groups. In spite of all of his various groups names, millions of dollars have been traced back to Soros who funded Media Matters and numerous other attack groups. I am willing to bet when investigations finally clear up this mess as much as possible, we will find numerous laws have been broken. It is unfortunate that politics has become this dirty and vindictive. If Nixon had not been such a paranoid person and Watergate had not happened, maybe all this kind of crap would never have got going. Nixon would have won in a landslide without Watergate. Look what it has created.
Has the IRS thing expanded from the Cincinnati office? You do know a Bush appointee was running the IRS at the time, I'm sure he didn't tell them to look at things closer. I have also heard that some of the liberal groups were looked at with more scrutiny as well. I am not saying what was done was right, but the supreme court upholds the Citizens United ruling and there is a big rush of groups filing for tax exempt status. So do the offices get overwhelmed? Is that part of the problem? Or with the Tea Party and other conservative groups wanting smaller government, less or no taxes, and the shutting down of the IRS, do you think that might have has some in the Cincinnati office a little worried? Until I see evidence of a call from the White House to this one Cincinnati office, I will wait to pass judgement on this issue.
I saw someone post the other day on a news site, that this person would scrutinize closely groups that are against taxes, not wanting to pay taxes, he said it seemed to make sense to him.
Call me naive, but also the explanation I've heard about the rush of filings for tax exempt status would really overwhelm me as well, and it sounded like those that entered search data into the computer program to help target applications decided on some key words..... sounds like how our intelligence community targets communication tracking as well by using key words.
Sandy could you provide more information on this, like links? All I've heard is the IRS chief stepped down, congress is investigating and it seemed centered on the Cincinnati office......what news channel did I miss that reported all of what you are claiming?
Didn't Nixon win in a landslide anyway? I was only 11 or 12 at the time.
I do think Holder might need to resign, there just seems to be too many issues going on, don't know if it all relates back to him, or is the problem out in the field, people doing their own things, or maybe I am just reacting to all the media and peoples opinions on him rather then really looking at his record.
Mel