Thursday, May 23, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 14
- Blog of the Legal Times: Zuckerman Lawyer Counsels IRS Official in Congressional Probe
- Bloomberg: IRS’s Lerner May Have Waived Rights at Hearing, Issa Says
- Card Hub: Ask The Experts: What to Make of the IRS "Tea Party" Scandal
- Foley & Lardner (Washington D.C.), IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups: A History, Overview and Status Report
- The Hill: Issa May Haul IRS’s Lerner Back
- The Hill: Tempers Flare as GOP Questions Lew Over IRS Targeting Timetable
- National Review: A Fifth of Obama
- National Review: Firing Lois Lerner: Not Impossible, But Almost
- National Review: It Didn’t End: The IRS Is Still Stringing Conservative Groups Along
- National Review: A Person of Privilege? Lois Lerner Was Too Clever by Half
- New York Times: IRS Official Invokes 5th Amendment at Hearing
- New York Times: Remaining Silent on the IRS
- New York Times: Torches and Pitchforks for IRS but Cheers for Apple
- Politico: Daniel Werfel, New IRS Chief, Says Agency Needs to Regain Public’s Trust
- Politico: Darrell Issa Slams IRS Watchdog
- Politico: Marco Rubio Calls for More IRS Hearings
- The Progressive Farmer: Tea Party Isn't Only IRS Victim
- Wall Street Journal: Did Lois Lerner Forfeit Her Fifth Amendment Privileges?
- Wall Street Journal: Emails Offer New Details on IRS Targeting
- Wall Street Journal: IRS’s Lerner Testimony: ‘I Did Not Break Any Laws’
- Wall Street Journal: Why Did Lois Lerner Take the Fifth? Perhaps to Protect Herself from Obama
- Washington Post: Former IRS Official Won’t Take Responsibility, by Dana Milbank
- Washington Post: Lois Lerner Invokes Fifth Amendment, Says She Did Nothing Wrong
- Washington Post: On IRS issue, Senior White House Aides Were Focused on Shielding Obama
- Weekly Standard: Congressman Worries About 'Chilling Effect' of Scandal -- On IRS!
- Weekly Standard: Liberals Turn on Lois Lerner, IRS
- Weekly Standard: Dem. Rep.: 'There Will Be Hell to Pay' If IRS Doesn't Cooperate, Threatens 'Special Prosecutor'
- Wilmington News Journal op-ed: Why the IRS Scandal Is Both Not as Bad, and Also Much Worse, Than It Seems, by Jan C. Ting (Temple)
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups in 2012 Election (May 10, 2013)
- WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Is Appalling (May 11, 2013)
- Schmalbeck on the IRS 'Targeting' of Conservative Groups (May 12, 2013)
- The Deepening IRS Scandal (May 13, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 5 (May 14, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Vic Fleischer on the IRS Scandal (May 14, 2013)
- Inspector General: Ineffective IRS Management Allowed Agents to Target Conservative Groups (May 14, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 6 (May 15, 2013)
- Ellen Aprill, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Questions About the IRS and About the Report (May 15, 2013)
- Phillip Hackney, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Be on the Lookout for False Partisan Witchunts (May 15, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 7 (May 16, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 8 (May 17, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 9 (May 18, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 10 (May 19, 2013)
- SNL on the IRS Scandal (May 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 11 (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal: Really?! (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 12 (May 21, 2013)
- Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 13 (May 22, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/irs-.html
I just noticed that the Privacy Act 552a (e)(4)(7) requires that the government "maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity".
Are records of how a taxpayer prays pertinent to authorized (by whom) law enforcement activity, or statute?
Posted by: jaybird | May 23, 2013 9:27:31 AM