IRS Victims Testify as New Agency Scandals Emerge

From left are, Kevin Kookogey, founder and president, Linchpins of Liberty, Diane Belsom, Laurens County, S.C. Tea Party,John Eastman, chairman, National Organization for Marriage, Karen Kenney, San Fernando Valley, Calif. Patriots, Sue Martinek, Coalition for Life of Iowa, and Becky Gerritson, Wetumpka, Ala. Tea Party, who are six organizations that say they were unfairly targeted by the Internal Revenue Service while seeking tax-exempt status, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee . (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

From left are, Kevin Kookogey, founder and president, Linchpins of Liberty, Diane Belsom, Laurens County, S.C. Tea Party,John Eastman, chairman, National Organization for Marriage, Karen Kenney, San Fernando Valley, Calif. Patriots, Sue Martinek, Coalition for Life of Iowa, and Becky Gerritson, Wetumpka, Ala. Tea Party, who are six organizations that say they were unfairly targeted by the Internal Revenue Service while seeking tax-exempt status, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee . (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

 

Newsmax
04 Jun 2013

The IRS has a culture of targeting some organizations that went beyond the extra scrutiny given to Tea Party groups, Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said as he opened a panel hearing on the IRS Tuesday.

Suggesting a pattern, Camp listed gift-tax audits of donors to a group that supported the war in Iraq, the release of confidential information from other groups, and extensive questions to Republican-leaning organizations.

“Americans were affected by the culture of political intimidation and discrimination that was cultivated by this targeting,” said Camp, a Michigan Republican. “For simply exercising their First Amendment rights — the freedoms of association, expression and religion, the IRS singled them out.”

The hearing signaled the two parties’ different views of investigations into the tax agency over the past month. Republicans say the IRS demonstrated bias against small-government groups while Democrats say the controversy resulted from a series of errors and flawed laws and rules…

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Related:  Testimony: IRS Leaked Info About Donors to Liberal Groups

On Tuesday, John C. Eastman, the National Organization for Marriage’s Chairman of the Board, accused the IRS of illegally leaking information about the organization’s donors to liberal organizations for political purposes.

In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, he said the IRS leaked the information to the Human Rights Campaign, a pro-gay rights group. He noted the head of the HRC was a co-chair of the Obama campaign…

 

IRS Witness Slams Rangel Down

In a powerful moment at the House Hearing on the IRS abuses, John Eastman, Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, reminded Congressman Rangel about the NAACP needing the protection of 501(c)4 anonymity in the 1950s…

 

“We’re the San Fernando Valley Patriots, not Occupy Oakland”

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GOP Rep. Paul Ryan Destroys Liberal Dem Rep. Jim McDermott for Dismissive Attitude toward IRS Scandal and Conservative Witnesses
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Watch Becky Gerritson’s entire testimony on her treatment by the IRS 

…“In Wetumpka, we are patriotic Americans. We peacefully assemble. We petition our government. We exercise the right to free speech. And we don’t understand why the government tried to stop us.

“I’m not here as a serf or a vassal. I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born free American woman. Wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well-being and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty, and you have faltered…”

 

Sources Say IRS Scandal “About to Explode” – Paper Trail Leads “All The Way To Top Levels In DC”

 

Tax-Exempt Head Given ‘Presidential Rank Award’ in Midst of IRS Targeting
Rep. Schock Highlights Organizing for Action, a 501(c)4 Openly Working for Obama

…Democrats seemed to have a hard time accepting the idea that other people’s definitions of social welfare may differ from their own. This is why none of the Democrats in the hearing expressed concern about OFA or any of the other progressive 501(c)4 groups which engage in political activity. They seem to take for granted that their definition of social welfare–on marriage, gun control, the environment–are the definitions…

 

Capitol Police Want to See Tea Party Website Before June Rally

…The Tea Party Patriots were planning a rally in Washington DC on Wednesday June 19th. But they ran into a wall…

 

Update: “National Organization for Marriage” Chair takes Democrats to the Woodshed for “the Scurrilous Things Said” at IRS Scandal Hearing

 Wow. Outstanding response by “National Organization for Marriage” (NOM) Chair, John Eastman, to what he described as the “scurrilous” things the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee had to say today about the IRS Targeting Conservative Groups like theirs. He took them to the woodshed. Below are screenshots of the two Democrats he singled out for response as he took them to task for their remarks…

 

Obama Attack Dog Stephanie Cutter Met With IRS Chief at the White House

 

 

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