Lois G. Lerner, the embattled Internal Revenue Service official who apologized for improperly scrutinizing the tax-exempt status of conservative nonprofit groups, is a member of the Humane Society of the United States, a liberal animal advocacy organization…
Patrick Howley
Reporter, The Daily Caller
IRS sent confidential info on conservatives to liberal nonprofit ProPublica
The division of the Internal Revenue Service that improperly scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups sent confidential information on 31 conservative groups to the well-funded liberal nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica, according to a revelation made by ProPublica Monday.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who apologized for targeting conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny is married to an attorney whose firm hosted a voter registration organizing event for the 2012 Obama re-election campaign, praised Obama’s policy work, and had one of its partners appointed by Obama to a key ambassadorship.
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I appeared on The John Gibson Radio Show on Fox News Radio May 15 to discuss the Obama administration’s exploding IRS scandal.
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Dem strategist Hilary Rosen starts #SupportJayCarney hashtag
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Bette Midler: ‘I love the IRS’
“Hunchback of Notre Dame” star Bette Midler declared that she loves the Internal Revenue Service for targeting the tax-exempt status of conservative groups.
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NARAL: Gosnell murders are ‘result of antichoice attacks on abortion access
The pro-abortion advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America declared Monday that Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell’s multiple murders of live infants resulted from pro-life “attacks” on abortion access.
“The numbers don’t lie- #Gosnell is result of #antichoice attacks on abortion access,” tweeted the official Twitter account of NARAL, which has the stated support of President Obama.
Baucus, now investigating IRS, urged IRS to target conservative groups in 2010
Democratic Montana Senator Max Baucus is leading an investigation into why the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny despite the fact that Baucus once wrote a letter urging the IRS to do exactly that.
Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, will head the committee’s investigation into the IRS, which apologized Friday for targeting groups with the terms “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their titles for extra scrutiny of their nonprofit status as early as 2011.
However, Baucus once wrote a letter requesting that the IRS engage in that very conduct.
