May 10, 2013

Our government at work - a two-fer

First - from The Associated Press:
IRS apologizes for targeting tea party groups
The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their exemption applications, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. In some cases, groups were asked for lists of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.

The agency — led at the time by a Bush administration appointee — blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware. But that wasn't good enough for Republicans in Congress, who are conducting several investigations and asked for more.
That is a bald-faced lie. If it was limited to a few low-level people, the complaints would center around the locale of that offices jurisdiction. This discrimination is nation-wide - about 300 groups with 75 being given the royal treatment (deep audits, etc...) Second - from Stephen F. Hayes writing at The Weekly Standard:
The Benghazi Scandal Grows
CIA director David Petraeus was surprised when he read the freshly rewritten talking points an aide had emailed him in the early afternoon of Saturday, September 15. One day earlier, analysts with the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis had drafted a set of unclassified talking points policymakers could use to discuss the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But this new version​ —- ​produced with input from senior Obama administration policymakers​ -— ​was a shadow of the original.
A three-page article -- people like Stephen are just digging into the scandal of Benghazi. When it happened, I knew that it was no good and this is being proven. Posted by DaveH at May 10, 2013 4:23 PM
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