TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

It looks like Obama is worse than Nixon

From The Wall Street Journal

New Links Emerge in the IRS Scandal
Emails released this week sweep the Federal Election Commission into the conservative-targeting probe.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323681904578642180886421040.html?mod=trending_now_1

Another Agency Goes IRS
How the FEC staff joined the political targeting of conservative groups.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323681904578642190875395974.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

For you info, there was NO scandal!

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

You did not read the articles.

Congressional investigators this week released emails suggesting that staff at the Federal Election Commission have been engaged in their own conservative targeting, with help from the IRS's infamous Lois Lerner. This means more than just an expansion of the probe to the FEC. It's a new link to the Obama team.

One big question raised by IRS political targeting is whether Obama officials or their bureaucratic allies unleashed the power of the administrative state for partisan ends. Now evidence is emerging that officials at another agency, the Federal Election Commission, used their enforcement power as an anti-conservative sword.

The House Ways and Means Committee this week released emails showing that, in 2008 and 2009, the FEC's general counsel staff sought tax information about conservative political groups from Lois Lerner of the IRS. Ms. Lerner is the IRS official who took the Fifth before Congress rather than tell her side of the story. She had previously worked at . . . the FEC's general counsel office.

Such a request is a no-no in many ways. The FEC staff was investigating these groups without the approval of its commissioners in clear violation of FEC rules. And the IRS is legally barred from releasing confidential tax information—including to the FEC. The emails show that Ms. Lerner asked her staff to provide information to the FEC, and Ways and Means is seeking more documents.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

UP-2-IT, please allow me to disagree. A scandal is a widely publicized allegation or set of allegations that damages (or tries to damage) the reputation of an institution, individual or creed. A scandal may be based on true or false allegations or a mixture of both. (This is a cut & paste)

There has been a lot of allegations about Obama lately on the news. Yes, I watch Fox. Thanks.

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, Colorado

Please, next time read the article before posting! :thumbdown: