Friday, June 7, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 29
- House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Hearing: Collected and Wasted: The IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses
- Testimony of J. Russell George (Inspector General Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
- Testimony of Danny Werfel (Acting IRS Commissioner)
- ABC News: IRS Workers Say Supervisors Directed Targeting
- The Atlantic: Proof the IRS Didn't Target Just Conservatives
- The Atlantic: Washington's Shameful Grandstanding Against the IRS
- Bloomberg: IRS Inquiries Multiply With Spock Video Next Focus of Ire
- Bloomberg: IRS Spock Portrayer Apologizes for Inappropriate Parody
- Bloomberg: Two IRS Officials on Leave Over Free Food at Convention
- CBS News: IRS Agents: Washington Involved With Tea Party Targeting
- Cincinnati Enquirer: Despite Frenzy, Main IRS Questions Unanswered
- Commentary: No Evidence on the Table of Wide IRS Conspiracy
- Daily Caller: The ‘Strange’ IRS Audit of a Romney Fundraiser and Her Extended Family
- Forbes: IRS Brass: Did You Order The Code Red?, by Robert W. Wood
- Forbes: IRS Does Not Spend Enough On Conferences, by Peter J. Reilly
- Fox News: More Details Emerge on IRS Staffer Claim of Washington Control of Targeting
- Huffington Post: IRS Approved More Conservative Groups Than Liberal Groups Selected For Review: Report
- McClatchy: Liberal Groups Say They Don’t See IRS Targeting Their Tax Applications
- National Review: Hey, Let’s Have the IRS Run Obamacare: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- National Review: IRS Lawyer Who Oversaw Tea-Party Targeting Said to be Retiring
- New York Times DealBook: Art Imitates IRS, or Vice Versa, by Lynnley Browning
- New York Times: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Wrong, Most Say in Poll
- Reason: IRS Agents Blame D.C. Officials for Political Targeting
- Tax Analysts: Substantial Minority of Scrutinized EOs Were Not Conservative, by Martin A. Sullivan
- Town Hall: IRS: No, We Won't Provide Documents to Congress, In Order to "Protect" Our Victims
- Wall Street Journal editorial: The Pleistocene IRS
- Wall Street Journal op-ed: The IRS Can't Plead Incompetence, by Peggy Noonan
- Wall Street Journal op-ed: An IRS Political Timeline: President Obama Spent Months in 2010 Warning Americans About the 'Threat' to Democracy Posed by Conservative Groups, rRght at the Time the IRS Began Targeting These Groups, by Kimberley Strassel
- Washington Post: Common Misconceptions About the IRS Controversy
- Washington Post: IRS Agents in Cincinnati Believe Higher-ups in Washington Directed Tea Party Targeting
- Washington Post: IRS Official Apologizes for Lavish $4M Conference but Says Agency Followed Government Rules
- Washington Post: IRS Waste Undermines Federal Employees
- Washington Post: Plastic Squirting Fish and Other IRS Conference Goodies
- Washington Post: Six Silly Moments at the IRS Hearing
- Washington Times: New IRS Chief Sets Out to Win Confidence
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)
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