{"id":35581,"date":"2013-05-14T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35581"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T09:50:48","slug":"yet-more-about-that-irs-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35581","title":{"rendered":"Yet More About That &#8220;IRS Thing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that \u201cIRS thing\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35562\">Doc Baily<\/a><\/strong> and I have each <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35574\">written about previously<\/a><\/strong> here at TAH?\u00a0 You know, where private advocacy groups were apparently targeted for \u201cspecial attention\u201d by the IRS based on political philosophy, ethnicity, or \u00a0because they \u201ccontradict the Administration&#8217;s public policies\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s possible that\u2019s not all that was going on.\u00a0 According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/05\/13\/the-irs-admits-to-targeting-conservative-groups-but-were-they-also-leaking\/\">an article at the <i>Daily Caller<\/i><\/a><\/strong> yesterday, it appears that information might have also been \u201cleaked&#8221; by a person or persons at the IRS for partisan political purposes.\u00a0 Specifically, it appears that paperwork showing a donation made by GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney to the National Organization for Marriage (which received a large amount of airplay during the last Presidential campaign) may have been leaked by the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re thinking that\u2019s illegal \u2013 you\u2019re correct.\u00a0 See the <i>Daily Caller<\/i> article for details.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, in a book written well before this latest IRS brouhaha became public, former SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld indicated that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2529508\">corporate executives often refrain from public criticism of the President or his policies<\/a><\/strong> out of fear of possible future retaliation by government agencies. \u00a0 He indicates that corporate executives often considered possible actions by the IRS, SEC, congressional committees, and other government agencies before voicing public opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsfeld does not come out and state that he has knowledge of such abuse.\u00a0 However, the implication is reasonably clear:\u00a0 corporate executives have seen enough &#8220;temporal coincidences&#8221; between public statements against Presidential positions or polices and additional regulatory scrutiny to notice &#8211; and to be wary.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.\u00a0 This looks to be getting \u201ccurioser and curioser\u201d with each passing day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that \u201cIRS thing\u201d Doc Baily and I have each written about previously here at TAH?\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"Yet More About That &#8220;IRS Thing&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35581\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet More About That &#8220;IRS Thing&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,185,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}