Judge OKs $3.5M settlement between IRS, tea party groups
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A judge this week approved a settlement between the IRS and hundreds of tea party groups, in which the federal agency agreed to pay out $3.5 million, reports said.
The conservative groups were the subjects of illegal and unwarranted scrutiny by the federal agency for political purposes, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported .
"It shows that when a government agency desires to target citizens based on their viewpoints, a price will be paid," said Edward Greim, a lawyer who led the class-action case in federal court in Cincinnati, according to the Washington Times .
The tea party groups received a "sincere apology" from the IRS, and the government agreed to a declaratory judgment that "it is wrong" to srutinize a tax return because of a taxpayer's name or political philosophy, the report said.
"I'm not frankly aware of any other class-action lawsuit against the IRS for anything where the IRS paid money," Mark Meckler, who as president of Citizens for Self Governance funded the class-action challenge, previously told the Times when the settlement was submitted for final approval a few weeks ago.
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Wow. So when Democrats are found guilty of using the IRS to bully political opponents "I'm sorry" 3.5 million and no MSM coverage is an adequate penalty? WTF?
Just make that check out to the RNC, that's where the original laundered money was headed anyway.
Right. Nothing to see here...
like removing security clearances of outspoken critics exercising their Constitutional rights?
Brennan has his 1st Amendment rights. His security clearance privileges have been revoked. He politicized the CIA, lied to congress, has been on a crusade against the President and may have helped to launch a baseless investigation (a coup)
bingo
Why hasn't Flynn had his removed???
No they haven't.
Trump tweet does not make the law, plus most of his people have learned to ignore his 2 am toilet tweets.
Have you called out these news outlets for reporting fake news?
Trump Revokes Ex-C.I.A. Director John Brennan’s Security ...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../john-brennan-security-clearance.html
Aug 15, 2018 · WASHINGTON — President Trump revoked the security clearance of John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama, on Wednesday in a striking act of retaliation against an outspoken critic. The president threatened to do the same to other former national security officials ...
John Brennan security clearance revoked: White House's ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/live-white-house-briefing-august-15...
Aug 15, 2018 · White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday that President Trump has ordered former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance to be revoked. Brennan served in the Obama administration. He was CIA director from 2013 to 20
They reported what Trump said.
Like so many other things, what Trump says is different from what he says. Have you called Trump out for being a liar yet? He said that he did it.
You said brennan's clearance was not suspended.
It was.
Was it??
White House insists former CIA chief Brennan has no security clearance, says paperwork ‘delayed’
Like his transgender ban, it doesn't count until he does it the proper way. Tweets do not make policy.
Agreed!
Lerner got away with her pension and what about the Obama Justice Department review? They should be charged with obstruction of justice
Maybe, just maybe, some folks will finally stop the crap about how the IRS did nothing wrong.
I won't bet the house on it, though.
Denial runs very strong in them.
Well they just admitted guilt to the tune of 3.5 million on this one. The liberals generally won't comment here. They want it to go away. You won't see MSM coverage on it either.
Why would I "want it to go away"? This wasn't any sort of "deep state" liberal cabal ploy. It was a Republican head of the IRS appointed by the Bush administration who improperly used key words that included BOTH conservative and progressive groups, there just happened to be far more conservative rule breakers. And of course they "admitted guilt", they did that years ago when they came clean with their vetting process, the court just came to a civil judgment.
The fact is not a single one of these groups was actually denied their 501 c3 or c4 tax exempt status, the key words included "progressive," "occupy," "Israel," "open source software," and "medical marijuana", not just conservative Tea Party groups, and out of the nearly 300 groups singled out for extra scrutiny, just 89 actually had to apply.
So I don't mind if you bring this up every day, the facts aren't going to change, the continued conservative "victim whine" is nothing but piss and vinegar.
LMAO nice spin.
The italicized parts don't make sense when taken together.
For there to be far more conservative rule breakers, you should prove that there were conservative rule breakers to begin with because in the next paragraph, you claim none were denied status. If none were denied status, are you also claiming that the IRS approved their status despite their alleged rule breaking?
And if only 89 had to apply, how many constitute "far more conservative rule breakers"?
And why would anyone scrutinize applications which didn't have to be made? Heck, I would trashcan those applications if the organization didn't have to apply and were granted status.
I thought it was obvious enough that I didn't want to waste my time on it so thanks for pointing it out.
Spin is all they’ve got.
Yeah, I noticed that the poster couldn't be bothered to even try and refute anything I wrote.
Capitulation to facts coming from the left now?
Oh my!
it's typical
So true.