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tomder55 · Jun 6, 2013, 09:58 AM

There is already committee pre-interviews that have been leaked . Pre-interviews are typical for this process. The leaks suggest that more than one IRS employee is going to reveal the truth since they indicate that they are rather peeved at being thrown under the bus and being called 'low level employees' etc.

Two Internal Revenue Service employees in the agency's Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that IRS officials in Washington helped direct the probe of tea-party groups that began in 2010.

Transcripts of the interviews, viewed Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, appear to contradict earlier statements by top IRS officials, who have blamed lower-level workers in Cincinnati.

Elizabeth Hofacre said her office in Cincinnati sought help from IRS officials in the Washington unit that oversees tax-exempt organizations after she started getting the tea-party cases in April 2010. Ms. Hofacre said Carter Hull, an IRS lawyer in Washington, closely oversaw her work and suggested some of the questions asked applicants.

“I was essentially a front person, because I had no autonomy or no authority to act on [applications] without Carter Hull's influence or input,” she said, according to the transcripts.

Mr. Hull could not be reached for comment.

IRS Staff Cite Washington Link - WSJ.com

This isn't going away no matter how hard the Obots try to blame shift.

excon · Jun 6, 2013, 10:02 AM

Hello again,

If we're living in a post racial world, as our resident right wingers would have us believe, how come so many people are OUTRAGED at this interracial Cheerios commercial?

excon

talaniman · Jun 6, 2013, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by tomder55

there is already committee pre-interviews that have been leaked . Pre-interviews are typical for this process. The leaks suggest that more than one IRS employee is going to reveal the truth since they indicate that they are rather peeved at being thrown under the bus and being called 'low level employees' etc.

IRS Staff Cite Washington Link - WSJ.com

This isn't going away no matter how hard the Obots try to blame shift.

I hope it highlights the stupidity of such tax exemptions and wipes them out, and all those groups have to pay back all the taxes they have already been exempt from, and a hefty fine.

Originally Posted by excon

Hello again,

If we're living in a post racial world, as our resident right wingers would have us believe, how come so many people are OUTRAGED at this interracial Cheerios commercial?

excon

Don't drink their Kool Aid Ex, but you already know that. Enjoy your Cheerios.

cdad · Jun 6, 2013, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by excon

Hello again,

If we're living in a post racial world, as our resident right wingers would have us believe, how come so many people are OUTRAGED at this interracial Cheerios commercial?

excon

Im not sure what was posted as comments but you have to realize that the schools are out for the summer and the trolls are invading. I watched it and didn't feel offended in any way and I got the message. I thought it was cute.

speechlesstx · Jun 6, 2013, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by excon

Hello again,

If we're living in a post racial world, as our resident right wingers would have us believe, how come so many people are OUTRAGED at this interracial Cheerios commercial?

excon

And obviously you're assuming those comments were posted by us.

Honestly - and if you've actually ever paid attention to my comments (not to mention my signature) you'd find this consistent - I had already been watching the ad and didn't notice anyone's skin color.

Now, back to the actual IRS scandal. Oops, I just blew the dog whistle.

tomder55 · Jun 6, 2013, 10:58 AM

There are trolls everywhere ;especially on YouTube . I've seen many a vile comment on some of the videos. I don't think it makes any kind of statement at all about our society except that every opinion is expressed in an anonymous internet environment .
Smart marketing by General Mills... 1st by creating the clever ad... and then humping the comments all over the MSM .

NeedKarma · Jun 6, 2013, 11:01 AM

They turned the comments off.

tomder55 · Jun 6, 2013, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by NeedKarma

They turned the comments off.

Not before they let ABC and others know so they could dutifully report it.

NeedKarma · Jun 6, 2013, 11:06 AM

AdWeek reported it - they follow these things.
I guess if you want to see conspiracies everywhere you will always find a way to rationalize it.

tomder55 · Jun 6, 2013, 11:13 AM

Whatever... it's working out for them Google has 21 pages of links for this one topic.

NeedKarma · Jun 6, 2013, 11:22 AM

It's simply a trend. Here's more info for you: Google Trends - Hot Searches

tomder55 · Jun 6, 2013, 01:07 PM

Well there you go... Cheerios is hot.. good for General Mills .

Google Trends

NeedKarma · Jun 6, 2013, 01:34 PM

Yep, marketing works sometimes.

tomder55 · Jun 7, 2013, 02:31 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bye3...layer_embedded

NeedKarma · Jun 7, 2013, 02:52 PM

Well that was juvenile.

tomder55 · Jun 7, 2013, 03:43 PM

As was the Star Trek video that the IRS produced with $50,000 tax payer bucks

talaniman · Jun 10, 2013, 02:27 PM

Cummings calls Issa's IRS bluff: 'I'll release' transcripts clearing White House if he doesn't | The Raw Story

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...se-then-prove/

Cummings also sent a five-page letter to committee Chairman Darrell Issa, accusing the California Republican of withholding information in the IRS probe and criticizing how he has investigated the Justice Department's flawed gun-tracking program Operation Fast and Furious, the fatal Benghazi terror attacks last year, and now the IRS.

“Your actions over the past three years do not reflect a responsible, bipartisan approach to investigations,” Cummings wrote. “And the committee's credibility has been damaged as a result. Your approach in all of these cases has been to accuse first, and then go in search of evidence to back up your claims. … You have selectively leaked excerpts of interview transcripts, documents and other information, and you have withheld evidence that directly contradicts your claims.”

Issa responded to Cummings' allegations and his comment Sunday on CNN's “State of Union” that the IRS case is “solved” and that he would “wrap this case up” and move on.

speechlesstx · Jun 10, 2013, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by talaniman

Cummings calls Issa’s IRS bluff: ‘I’ll release’ transcripts clearing White House if he doesn’t | The Raw Story

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...se-then-prove/

LOL, this is priceless:

“Based upon everything I’ve seen, the case is solved. And if it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on.”

Uh no, it is not solved and everyone who's paid any attention knows this has been the game plan for every admin scandal, the "nothing to see here" defense while waiting for it to fade into a mere memory.

talaniman · Jun 10, 2013, 03:00 PM

So why did Issa withhold some facts that were contrary to his theories? I guess the conservative republican IRS worker was lying and he was taking orders from the White House?

tomder55 · Jun 10, 2013, 04:08 PM

I dare Cummings to release the full trascripts .I'm begging him ! But he won't because he is all hot air bluster . He told this line of bovine excrement to Candy Crowley; last seen giving cover to the Emperor's bold face lie about Benghazi during the debate against Romney.
Let's just assume his claim that a 'conservative Republican' worker in the IRS didn't see evidence of problems... what exactly does that prove ? Answer NOTHING .
Hate to break his balloon ;but this is only the opening phase of the investigation. Remember ;Watergate happened June 17, 1972 .It took until August 1974 to link the smoking gun to the President.
IRS agents are beginning to finger their superiors, including one IRS lawyer in Washington DC.It won't take long to peel back this stinkin onion.