An
Even Bigger Scandal: Why Are IRS Audits Being Used To Punish Obama’s Political
Enemies?
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http://albertpeia.com/irsauditsusedonobamapoliticalfoes.htm
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‘Is it right for Barack Obama to use IRS
audits to punish his political enemies? As crazy as that sounds, there is
a mounting body of evidence that indicates that this is actually
happening. And if this can be proven, it is a much, much larger scandal
than the IRS giving "extra scrutiny" to the
applications of conservative non-profit groups. Let me be clear - if
Barack Obama has been using IRS audits to punish his political enemies, that is
an impeachable offense. Of all of the other scandals that are out there right now, this is
the one that could actually bring down the presidency of Barack Obama.
That is how serious this is. As you will read about below, there is a
huge amount of circumstantial evidence that political enemies of Barack Obama
have been singled out for IRS audits. We need to find out who initiated
these audits. Whether you are a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent,
this kind of abuse of government power should sicken and horrify you. If
it can be proven that Barack Obama has been using IRS audits to attack his
enemies, every single U.S. citizen should be calling for him to resign.
This is something that is beyond politics - this is a direct threat to the very
integrity of our system.
The recent revelation that the IRS has been specifically targeting
patriot groups and Tea Party organizations for "extra scrutiny" has
opened up the floodgates. In recent days, a large number of highly
respected people have come forward claiming that they were the subject of IRS
audits that were politically motivated.
For example, Larry Conners, a respected local news anchor at KMOV
Channel 4 in St. Louis, Missouri says that he was hit with an IRS audit almost
immediately after
he conducted an interview with Barack Obama in April 2012...
Shortly after I did my April
2012 interview with President Obama, my wife, friends and some viewers
suggested that I might need to watch out for the IRS.
I don't accept
"conspiracy theories", but I do know that almost immediately after
the interview, the IRS started hammering me.
At the time, I dismissed the
"co-incidence", but now, I have concerns ... after revelations about
the IRS targeting various groups and their members.
Originally, the IRS apologized
for red-flagging conservative groups and their members if they had "Tea
Party" or "patriot" in their name.
Today, there are allegations
that the IRS focused on various groups and/or individuals questioning or
criticizing government spending, taxes, debt or how the government is run ...
any involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the constitution
and bill of rights, or social economic reform/movement.
In that April 2012 interview,
I questioned President Obama on several topics: the Buffet Rule, his public
remarks about the Supreme Court before the ruling on the Affordable Care Act. I
also asked why he wasn't doing more to help Sen. Claire McCaskill who at that
time was expected to lose. The Obama interview caught fire and got wide-spread
attention because I questioned his spending.
I said some viewers expressed
concern, saying they think he's "out of touch" because of his
personal and family trips in the midst of our economic crisis.
The President's face clearly
showed his anger; afterwards, his staff which had been so polite ... suddenly
went cold.
That's to be expected, and I
can deal with that just as I did with President George H. Bush's staff when he
didn't like my questions.
Journalistic integrity is of
the utmost importance to me. My job is to ask the hard questions, because I
believe viewers have a right to be well-informed. I cannot and will not promote
anyone's agenda - political or otherwise - at the expense of the reporting the
truth.
What I don't like to even
consider ... is that because of the Obama interview … the IRS put a target on
me.
Can I prove it? At this time,
no.
But it is a fact that since
that April 2012 interview ... the IRS has been pressuring me.
Reverend Franklin Graham, the
son of Reverend Billy Graham, recently wrote a letter to Barack Obama claiming
that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse were both
hit with IRS audits very shortly after they ran full-page ads supporting North
Carolina's Marriage amendment. In fact, both organizations were notified
about the audits on the same day. The following is from
a recent article posted on redstate.com...
The man known as America’s
pastor was among those targeted by the Internal Revenue Service after the Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association ran newspaper advertisements promoting
traditional marriage and biblical values.
“I am bringing this to your
attention because I believe that someone in the Administration was targeting
and attempting to intimidate us,” wrote Franklin Graham in a letter to
President Obama. “This is morally wrong and unethical – indeed some would call
it ‘un-American.’”
Graham is president of the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as the international charity
Samaritan’s Purse. Both organizations received word of audits on the same day –
not long after they ran full –page ads supporting North Carolina’s Marriage
amendment.
The ads encouraged voters to
“cast our ballots for candidates who base their decisions on biblical
principles and support the nation of Israel.”
The ad concluded with the
words, “Vote for biblical values this November 6, and pray with me (Billy
Graham) that America will remain one nation under God.”
Graham said on Sept. 6, 2012
they received notification that the IRS would audit their taxes.
“In light of what the IRS
admitted to on Friday, May 10, 2013, and subsequent revelations from other
sources, I do not believe that the IRS audit of our two organizations last year
is a coincidence – or justifiable,” Graham wrote.
You can find a full copy of
Franklin Graham's letter to Barack Obama right here.
The Blaze is reporting on
another example of this phenomenon. A respected Catholic
professor that had written things critical of the Obama administration was
hit with an IRS audit that she believes was politically motivated...
On Wednesday, Dr. Anne
Hendershott, a devout Catholic and a noted sociologist, professor and author,
exclusively told The Blaze that she believes she may have been one of the IRS’s
targets.
According
to Hendershott, the IRS audited her in 2010 and demanded to know who was paying
her and “what their politics were.”
It all started with a phone
call she received at her home in May of that year — a call during
which Hendershott was told she would be audited. A letter that followed on
May 19, 2010 solidified the IRS’s request to meet her in person two months
later in July.
Unfortunately, these are not
just isolated incidents. In fact, attorney Cleta Mitchell recently told Newsmax that she has seen a
systematic pattern of politically motivated IRS harassment that only began once
Barack Obama entered the White House...
In the case of one such
client, she and her family subsequently became targets for audits to their
personal and business tax returns, and were even visited by three different
government agencies. She also knows of other groups who had surprise visits
from the FBI after they applied for IRS status.
Mitchell said she doesn't
believe the president or the White House was uninvolved in the IRS activities,
as the administration has claimed.
"I've thought for some
time that this is politically motivated and that's the reason it was happening.
And, as I said, I've been doing this for more than 20 years and I've never seen
anything like this until 2009, 2010. And the only thing that changed was we had
a different administration," she said.
There are some that have been
trying to bring awareness to these politically motivated audits for quite some
time. One of these individuals is a former classmate of Obama's named Wayne Allyn Root...
“I feel like a million bucks.
I feel absolutely vindicated. I knew this was going on,” Wayne Allyn Root told
WND.
Root, the Libertarian Party
vice-presidential candidate in 2008 who has claimed Obama was strangely unknown
to him and his fellow Columbia University classmates, recounted his
story to WND last October of becoming the target of unusual audits,
beginning in January 2011, despite a “spotless” 30-year tax record.
He charged in October that the
order to audit him came from Obama himself, and he is even more convinced now.
“I believe this is not rogue
agents, who would be risking their pension and careers,” he said.
In October, Root said the
order to audit him “must have come from the highest levels of government.”
“Obama is using the power of
the IRS and other government agencies to punish his political opposition and
intimidate and silence his critics,” Root charged at the time.
In that same article, a number of
other examples of this phenomenon were cited...
Last year, billionaire Frank
VanderSloot became
the target of investigations by both the IRS and the Labor Department after
he gave $1 million to a super PAC that supported Republican presidential
nominee Mitt Romney. The GOP’s biggest donor, Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon
Adelson, said
a federal criminal investigation into his company’s business practices was
politically motivated. Another casino giant, Steve Wynn, also has been
investigated.
This week, Root has received
many emails from people who identify as conservative and believe the IRS has
been harassing them for political reasons.
What happened to businessman
Frank VanderSloot is particularly noteworthy. The following is from an
article that Rob Bluey authored
last year...
On April 20, President Obama’s
campaign named VanderSloot to the first
presidential “enemies list” since the Nixon era. Eight private citizens
were singled out for their donations to Romney. They committed no crimes,
sought no attention, and yet they became the subject of Obama’s scorn.
VanderSloot is now facing
persecution from the federal government. Kimberly Strassel reveals in The Wall
Street Journal that two federal agencies — the Internal Revenue Service and
Labor Department — both launched investigations of VanderSloot after his name
appeared on Obama’s enemies list.
No matter what you think of
Obama's politics, shouldn't we all be deeply alarmed that he has an
"enemies list"?
With each passing day, the
similarities between Barack Obama and Richard Nixon become more glaring.
And Obama has even joked about
sending the IRS after people that he does not like. When Obama found out
that he was not going to be receiving an honorary doctorate from Arizona State
University, he made the following
statement...
"President [Michael]
Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the
IRS."
The IRS is not supposed to be
used as a weapon, and the White House is not allowed to use information
gathered by the IRS for political gain either. But apparently last year
someone at the IRS was leaking tax information to someone within the Obama
campaign. The following is from a recent article by Matt K. Lewis...
A little over a year ago, I reported that, ”It is likely
that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential
donor information showing a contribution from Mitt
Romney’s political action committee to the National Organization for
Marriage, says the group.”
Now — on the heels of news the
IRS’s apology for having targeted conservative groups — NOM is renewing their demand
that the Internal Revenue Service reveal the identity of the people
responsible.
“There is little question that
one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked
it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law,” said NOM’s president
Brian Brow, in a prepared statement. “The only questions are who did it, and
whether there was any knowledge or coordination between people in the White
House, the Obama reelection campaign and the Human Rights Campaign. We and the American
people deserve answers.”
The IRS has been doing all sorts
of things that they should not be doing. They are a rogue agency that is
completely out of control.
In fact, one new lawsuit alleges
that the IRS stole the health records of approximately
10 million Americans...
The Internal Revenue Service
is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly
accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including
medical records of all California state judges.
According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity
in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records
from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health
information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling,
gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment
data. "This is an action involving the corruption and abuse
of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents," the complaint reads.
"No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena
authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were
under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical
records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the
scene, a HIPPA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the
searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of
these privileged records," it continued.
And guess what?
The IRS is going to be the
primary government agency in charge of implementing Obamacare.
Will we soon see the IRS use
health information to attack the political enemies of the man or woman sitting
in the White House?
Unfortunately, thanks to new
"Big Brother" technology that the IRS has been implementing, pretty
soon there will be very little about us that the IRS does not know. The
following is from a recent article by
Richard Satran of U.S. News & World Report...
Consumers are already familiar
with Internet "cookies" that track their movements and send them
targeted ads that follow them to different websites. The IRS has brought in
private industry experts to employ similar digital tracking—but with the added
advantage of access to Social Security numbers, health records, credit card
transactions and many other privileged forms of information that marketers
don't see.
"Private industry would
be envious if they knew what our models are," boasted Dean Silverman, the
agency's high-tech top gun who heads a group recruited from the private sector
to update the IRS, in a comment reported in trade publications.
So what is the IRS going to do
with all of this information?
Well, the following are just a
few of the things that they have already said that they plan to do with it...
• Charting and analyzing social media such as
Facebook
• Targeting audits by matching tax filings to
social media or electronic payments
• Tracking individual Internet addresses and
emailing patterns
• Sorting data in 32,000 categories of
metadata and 1 million unique "attributes"
• Machine learning across "neural"
networks
• Statistical and agent-based modeling
• Relationship analysis based on Social
Security numbers and other personal identifiers
So are you alarmed by all of
this?
You should be.
As I discussed in my previous
article entitled "100
Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Was Much Better Off Before The Income
Tax", Congress should close the doors of the IRS and throw away the
key. It is a deeply, deeply corrupt government agency that has gotten
wildly out of control.
After what you have just read above,
is there anyone out there that would disagree with me?’