The IRS scandal goes straight to the top -- to the Obama White House. We know this for a fact because, um, the IRS unit responsible for tea party targeting also targeted group during the Bush years, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yes, Obama is so EEEEEVIL he had his thugs doing his dirty work before he was president:
... The IRS's questionable handling of the tea-party cases follows a long line of other groups selected for extra scrutiny.In 2006! Wow -- the IRS goons must have known that their evil henchman, who'd just announced his long-shot bid to become the Democrat presidential nominee, was going to score an upset victory over Hillary Clinton and then be elected president, and so they wanted to get a jump on implementing his satanic agenda.
In the mid-2000s, the IRS revoked or terminated the tax-exempt status of more than a dozen credit-counseling firms after finding they operated as businesses that weren't providing counseling or education.....
"Look for evidence in the organization's forms, transcripts of telephone calls, and elsewhere," said an IRS instruction memo.
IRS agents also listened in on calls between credit counselors and their clients to measure the interaction....
In 2006, the IRS took a close look at groups helping potential home buyers secure down payments, after finding some had been essentially for-profit entities working for home sellers....
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Oh, and there's also this in the Journal story:
Several years ago, a succession of scandals rocked Jewish charities in New York and New Jersey. A Brooklyn rabbi told clients he was using a charity to help broker the sale of black-market kidneys, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agency also cracked down on other local charities with ties to money laundering, among other things.This actually happened in 2009, after Obama was inaugurated. Hmmm, let's see: What was the IRS's involvement in this, and who was targeted?
An investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake Gucci handbags evolved into a probe of New Jersey political corruption that produced mass arrests yesterday, including three mayors, two state legislators and several rabbis.....Ahhh, but this was six months into Obama's presidency, so I guess an FBI/IRS joint operation that netted a bunch of corrupt Democrats should be credited to Bush -- right?
Federal prosecutors said the investigation initially focused on a money-laundering network tied to Brooklyn, N.Y., Deal, N.J., and Israel that allegedly processed tens of millions of dollars through Jewish charities controlled by local rabbis....
Among the 44 arrests were the mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, Jersey City's deputy mayor, and two state assemblymen. A member of the governor's cabinet resigned after agents searched his home. All but one of the office-holders are Democrats.
Also, five rabbis from New York and New Jersey were accused of laundering millions of dollars, some of it from the sale of counterfeit goods and bankruptcy fraud.
Yesterday morning FBI and IRS agents raided a synagogue in Deal....
