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I. R. S. I Refuse to Speak – Top IRS official invokes 5th Amendment

(Fox News) Top IRS official refuses to testify at hearing, invokes 5th Amendment. The director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups refused to answer questions Wednesday at a House hearing on the program, as a Democratic lawmaker warned there would be “hell to pay” if the agency stonewalls Congress on its investigation. [...]

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Armed ‘Homeland’ Guards Protect IRS From Tea Party Protesters…

Agency created to protect against terror attacks now policing free speech (Info Wars) – The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it’s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police – only armed Homeland Security guards. Video [...]

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Top Dems blame scandal on tax code…

(Washington Times) – Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday the IRS, while engaging in “unacceptable” targeting of conservative groups, may have been set up for failure by campaign finance law ambiguities that allowed tax-exempt groups to engage in partisan politics without disclosing their donors. In the Senate’s first hearing on revelations that [...]

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IRS Fails to Comply With Congressional Demand for All Communications With WH…

(CNS News) – What did the White House know about the IRS targeting conservative groups and when did it know it? Crucial evidence needed to develop an accurate answer to that question would include the records of any communications that went back and forth between the IRS and the White House on the topic. FAX [...]

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IRS internal investigation ended 6 months before ’12 election

IRS tea-party bloodbath continues in Congress, as evidence emerges that IRS’s own internal probe ended in May 2012, six months before election, but was hidden from legislators (Daily Mail) – Tempers flared in a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday, with members on both sides of the aisle castigating the Internal Revenue Service [...]

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Rush Limbaugh: Big Tea Party IRS Protests Planned Nationwide Tuesday

Posted  May 21, 2013  by  Tea Party

(Rush Limbaugh) – RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, US News & World Report: “Tea Party Protests Planned At IRS Offices Nationwide Tuesday — A major tea party group is planning protests at Internal Revenue Services nationwide Tuesday following revelations earlier this month that the tax agency had flagged organizations with the words ‘tea [...]

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RNC Chief: Obama Creating ‘Atomsphere of Guerilla Warfare’…

Posted  May 21, 2013  by  Tea Party

(National Review) – Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus accused President Obama of having “built up an atmosphere of guerrilla warfare” that created fertile ground for the scandals now roiling his administration. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! “This is the problem with this entire situation [with the AP], with the IRS, with Benghazi: you [...]

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Tea Party Boiling Over IRS Debacle

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(TeaParty.org) – The Tea Party will not be intimidated by the Chicago-style strong-arm tactics of the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS will not silence the Tea Party or purge the conservative message from the free marketplace of ideas. On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said, “I bet this is going to be huge…it’s entirely possible [...]

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ARMED POLICE AT IRS OFFICE: KEEPING LID ON REPORTERS, EMPLOYEES

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(ABC News) -  Welcome to Cincinnati – Ground zero of the exploding IRS scandal. Things started brewing earlier this month when Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington first admitted conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny by tax bureaucrats in Ohio’s Queen City. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! By May 14 – three days [...]

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Justice Department obtained records of Fox News journalist

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(Fox News) – The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent’s conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday — in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists. This follows the charge that the department secretly obtained two [...]

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Ammo Shortage Persists Across Nation…

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(Tyler Paper) – There have been ammunition shortages before in the United States, but nothing like what gun owners have seen the last six months. Target shooters, those using .22 long rifles, .223 and .308 calibers were already feeling the pinch, but starting in December even waterfowlers were having trouble finding steel shot. FAX BLAST [...]

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Chief IRS counsel bailed Jeremiah Wright’s church out of IRS probe in 2008…

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(Breitbart) – News reports from the time indicate the now-chief counsel of the IRS, William Wilkins, helped a church connected to President Barack Obama’s friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright get out of an IRS probe in 2008 while working as a private attorney. “Lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have won the dismissal of [...]

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Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(The American Spectator) – “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House  Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal? FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking [...]

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Congressman: Impeachment is an option…

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(National Review) – Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, says President Barack Obama may face impeachment over his administration’s response to the Benghazi attack. “They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that’s unacceptable,” Chaffetz tells me. “It’s part of a pattern of deception.” FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! Behind the scenes, he [...]

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REPORT: DOJ Leaked Docs to Smear Fast & Furious Whistleblower…

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(Breitbart) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a [...]

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DOJ TARGETED FOXNEWS REPORTERS

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

Report: Justice Department targeted TWO Fox News Channel reporters and a producer for talking with government sources (Daily Mail) – The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations that three of its reporting staffers were targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in criminal investigations related to their attempts to obtain information from government [...]

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IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties

Posted  May 20, 2013  by  Tea Party

(Prison Planet) – “What do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave “special scrutiny” to organizations opposed to the [...]

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