Wednesday, November 5, 2014
The IRS Scandal, Day 545
Breitbart: Read: Jeanne Shaheen-IRS Memos on Conservative Group Targeting:
The IRS memos to and from incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) indicate she was involved in the actual investigative activities targeting Tea Partiers.
The memos, obtained by Breitbart News and published here, show a series of letters Shaheen and other Democratic Senators exchanged with then IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and then IRS deputy commissioner for services and enforcement Steven Miller—not just the one memo published by The Daily Caller’s Patrick Howley late Monday evening right before the election.
The memos are responses to two different letters Shaheen and a whole group of Democrats such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Al Franken (D-MN), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Tom Udall (D-NM), among others. The responses are directed specifically to Shaheen, seemingly indicating that she was the point person for the Senate Democrats’ efforts to leverage the IRS into targeting conservative and Tea Party groups. ...
The letters Shaheen and her Democratic colleagues sent to the IRS have long been public, but the detailed responses from the IRS to her are brand new—and came out just before the election. They seem to indicate that Shaheen was kept apprised of, and was involved in, the intricate layers of the IRS targeting of Tea Partiers—which has since been widely panned in the wake of several congressional investigations. Basically, the fact that Democratic senators – especially Shaheen – were deeply involved in the targeting scandal has always been suspected but never confirmed—until now.
- Breitbart: Report: Election-Eve Bombshell Memo Embroils Jeanne Shaheen in IRS Targeting Scandal
- Daily Caller: Bombshell Memo: Jeanne Shaheen Conspired With White House Insider On IRS Targeting Scandal
- Fox News: Memo: Sen. jeanne Shaheen May Have Coordinated With Lois Lerner
- Media Matters: Conservative Media Try to Undercut Shaheen Campaign With Last-Minute Conspiracy Mongering
- Newsmax: Letters Link Jeanne Shaheen to IRS Targeting Scandal
- PJ Media: Memo: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Was In on the IRS Targeting Conspiracy
- PolitiFact: Jeanne Shaheen Hit by Last-minute Attack Over Lois Lerner Controversy at IRS
- Power Line Blog: Jeanne Shaheen Helped Lead Charge to Have IRS Attack 501(c)(4) Groups
- Raw Story: The Daily Caller’s Exclusive Blockbuster ‘Scare Quote’ Boogity-Boogity Memo Story Is a Sad Thing to Read
- Washington Examiner: 'Smoking Gun' Memo Links Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in IRS Targeting Scandal
- Western Journalism: New Evidence Links Top Dem To IRS Scandal And Harry Reid Could Be In Big Trouble Because Of It
- WND: Explosive Election Day Scandal in Toss-up State 'We Haven't Seen Anything Like This Since the Nixon Era'
- WND: Memo: Shaheen Conspired on IRS Scandal
- The IRS Scandal, Day 544 (Nov. 4, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 543 (Nov. 3, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 542 (Nov. 2, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 541 (Nov. 1, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 540 (Oct. 31, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 539 (Oct. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 538 (Oct. 29, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 537 (Oct. 28, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 536 (Oct. 27, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 535 (Oct. 26, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 534 (Oct. 25, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 533 (Oct. 24, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 532 (Oct. 23, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 531 (Oct. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 530 (Oct. 21, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 529 (Oct. 20, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 528 (Oct. 19, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 527 (Oct. 18, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 526 (Oct. 17, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 525 (Oct. 16, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 524 (Oct. 15, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 523 (Oct. 14, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 522 (Oct. 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 521 (Oct. 12, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 520 (Oct. 11, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 519 (Oct. 10, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 518 (Oct. 9, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 517 (Oct. 8, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 516 (Oct. 7, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 515 (Oct. 6, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 514 (Oct. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 513 (Oct. 4, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 512 (Oct. 3, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 511 (Oct. 2, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 510 (Oct. 1, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 509 (Sept. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 508 (Sept. 29, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 507 (Sept. 28, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 506 (Sept. 27, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 505 (Sept. 26, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 504 (Sept. 25, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 503 (Sept. 24, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 502 (Sept. 23, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 501 (Sept. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 401-500 (June 14, 2014 - Sept. 21,2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 301-400 (Mar. 6, 2014 - June 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 201-300 (Nov. 26, 2013 - Mar. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 101-200 (Aug. 18, 2013 - Nov. 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 1-100 (May 10, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/11/the-irs-scandal-1.html
Pretty low. As stated succinctly by PolitiFact, "[t]he letters weren’t secret, they didn’t cite Lerner or other Obama appointees, and they didn’t single out conservative groups." Also, the letter were obtained by Breitbart and Co. back in early October. For some reason, the "bombshell" did not explode until 9:36 p.m. on election-eve. I wonder why?
Posted by: Publius Novus | Nov 5, 2014 8:25:28 AM