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Beck: ‘The American people have just been raped’ by Benghazi, IRS scandals
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday compared the U.S. government to “rapists” over recent so-called scandals, from the Internal Revenue Service’s practice of scrutinizing conservative groups to last year’s terrorist attacks in Benghazi. In a bizarre rant on his radio show, Beck said that he didn’t know why Congress…
IRS official pleads the Fifth: ‘I have not done anything wrong’
The official who was in charge of Internal Revenue Service division that admitted scrutinizing the tax-exempt status of conservative groups told a House committee on Wednesday that she was refusing to testify even though she had done nothing wrong. In a statement to the House Oversight Committee, IRS Director of…
Revealed: Republicans knew about IRS investigations of tea party groups last July
Republicans in Congress have known that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) asked additional questions of some tea party groups seeking tax exempt status since last July, only recently raising the issue as a matter of controversy according to documents released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The…
Moore tells Maher: ‘The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes’
The dispute regarding the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of Tea Party political groups didn’t strike Real Time host Bill Maher as a big deal on Friday night. “Is it unreasonable to target an anti-tax group?” Maher asked in response. “This is, after all, a group that named itself after…
Outgoing IRS chief tells Congress abuses were ‘foolish mistakes’ and not political
The outgoing head of the IRS told Congress Friday that the US tax agency made “foolish mistakes” in targeting conservative groups but insisted the action was not politically motivated. Lawmakers hammered Steven Miller, who resigned this week at the request of President Barack Obama, over abuse of power at the…
Rangel to IRS official: Citizens United was ‘invitation… for abuse’ of the tax code
The outgoing acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner on Friday told Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) that applications for 501(c)4 groups had doubled since the Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling, which opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending by corporations. “The applications for this type of corporation increased dramatically, did it not?”…
Boehner on IRS targeting: ‘Who is going to jail over this scandal?’
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Wednesday took the unexpected step of calling to imprison someone in the U.S. government after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted inappropriately scrutinizing tea party groups to determine if they had abused their tax-exempt status. “Now my question isn’t about who is going to…
Beck calls for impeachment: IRS ‘tyranny’ persecutes tea party like The Inquisition
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Monday responded to the news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny by comparing the scandal to The Inquisition and insisting that the United States was living under “tyranny” if Congress did not launch impeachment hearings immediately.…
Gingrich: Obama ‘will not profile terrorists but profile patriots’
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday tied a scandal where the Internal Revenue Service targeted tea party groups to President Barack Obama’s health care reform law and last September’s attacks in Benghazi. In an interview on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough asked the former House Speaker what the president…
George Will floats impeachment after IRS targets tea party groups
Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama could be impeached after it was revealed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted tea party groups. The Associated Press learned last week that the IRS had apologized for what it was an “inappropriate” investigation into whether tea party…
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