Monday, June 10, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 32
- Bloomberg: IRS Firings for Employee Misconduct Reach 11-Year Low
- Bloomberg: IRS Official Says White House Wasn’t Involved in Groups’ Review
- CNN: Cummings Contradicts Issa on IRS Case, Tells Candy Crowley: "Based Upon Everything I've Seen the Case Is Solved"
- Daily Caller: Washington IRS official who oversaw targeting is a registered Democrat
- Dallas Morning News: Ted Cruz Launches Effort to Abolish IRS, but Tax Experts Call Him Confused
- Forbes: The Proof That White House Was Not Involved In IRS Tea Party Targeting Finally Exposed?
- The Hill: GOP Demands ‘Decisive Action’ From New IRS Chief — And Soon
- The Hill: Top Oversight Dem: IRS Targeting Scandal 'Solved,' Time to 'Move On'
- Mediaite: Bill Kristol On Fox News: ‘Republicans Are Making A Huge Mistake’ Conflating IRS And NSA Scandals
- National Review: Cummings: IRS Scandal 'Solved,' Time to 'Move On'
- NBC News: Issa Rejects Colleageue's Claim That IRS Case Is 'Solved'
- Powerline: Jay Leno for President?
- Reuters: Republican IRS Agent Says Cincinnati Began 'Tea Party' Inquiries
- Wall Street Journal: Democrat Says IRS Case Started in Ohio
- Washington Post editorial: An IRS Scandal With Few Answers but Much Hyperbole
- Washington Post: 'Conservative' IRS manager Tells Investigators that White House Not Involved in Targeting
- Washington Post: Elijah Cummings: ‘Case Is Solved’ on IRS
- Washington Times: Rep. Darrell Issa Slams Rep. Elijah Cummings: IRS Scandal Is Not ‘Solved’
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)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 14 (May 23, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 15 (May 24, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 24, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 16 (May 25, 2013)
- Jason Jones on the IRS Scandal (May 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 17 (May 26, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 18 (May 27, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 19 (May 28, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 20 (May 29, 2013)
- The Impact of the IRS Scandal on Tax Reform (May 29, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 21 (May 30, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 22 (May 31, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 23 (June 1, 2013)
- 'Cupid Shuffle' Dance Training Video Adds to IRS Woes (June 1, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 24 (June 2, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 25 (June 3, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 26 (June 4, 2013)
- Jon Stewart on the IRS Scandal (June 4, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 27 (June 5, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 28 (June 6, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 29 (June 7, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 30 (June 8, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 31 (June 9, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/06/the-irs-6.html
This is starting to look pretty much the way I thought it would end up. "Targeting" was an incendiary term used either by the unbelievably politically naive Lois Lerner or by the MSM. Note that over the weekend, "targeted" has morphed into "set aside." "Set aside" far more accurately describes what the examiners did in this case. They didn't target tea party groups for audit. They set aside Tea Party applications because they didn't know what to do with them, and wanted to ensure uniform treatment. So they classified them based on identifying tags like "tea party" and "patriot." Then they asked for interpretive help from technical experts in Washington, and Washington said, "send us a couple of cases." Washington needed a couple of cases (later seven more) because they couldn't address the questions in the abstract.
Posted by: Publius Novus | Jun 10, 2013 6:47:45 AM