Lois Lerner, began her career in 1986, under the Reagan Administration. She served as Executive Assistant to one of the Commissioner's at the Federal Elections Commission 'FEC', until 1995. This has been recently reported by the National Review, a partisan magazine for promoting a Republican Agenda. Since her tenure at the FEC, Lois Lerner was seated on the General Counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, 'RSC'. Her responsibilities were mainly pro-regulation for limiting the influence of money in politics. How ironic, what comes around goes around.

20130620   IRS Transcript Released I   |   IRS Transcript Released II

Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight On Government Reform was to investigate abuse at the IRS. The 300 page Transcript was held back due to possible compromise of the investigation. Republican Darrell Issa had CHERRY PICKED and released portions of the transcript supporting his version of the facts. Since then, Senior Democrat, Elijah Cummings had released the entire transcript refering to an IRS manager claiming to be Conservative-Republican who set aside many of the applicants for further development. According to testimony offered by this IRS manager, conservative applicants were asking for both Tax-Exemept Status and be able to run political ads which was, in his opinion, prohibited by law.

20130613-Your push to release entire transcripts from witness interviews while the investigation remains active was reckless and threatened to undermine the integrity of the committees investigation, Issa wrote in response to a letter from his Democratic counterpart, Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who himself had selectively quoted the transcripts and then called on Issa to publicize the whole thing.

Elijah Cummings reported, the manager responsible for alledgedly targeting conservative applicants under 501c4 identified himself as a Conservative Republican. When asked, if his use of authority was to attack enemies of the Obama Administration, his reply was simply, his authority allowed him to require 'applicant request' futher development. Republican Daryll Issa has still not released the interviews he promised 3 weeks ago. Looks like a cheewee to me.

20130613-Rep. Darrell Issa claimed the enhanced scrutiny of Tea Party groups for tax-exempt status, out of the Cincinnati IRSs Office was a problem coordinated, right out of Washington headquarters. Now Issa is withholding transcripts and attacking fellow Oversight Committee reps. Democrats released excerpts of the IRS manager behind the Tea Party screening identifies himself as a conservative Republican. When asked whether the review of Tea Party-related groups was meant to target President Obamas political enemies, the manager said, I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development.


20130525 Wikipedia on 501(c) The United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 501(c)) provides 28 types of nonprofit organizations exempt from some federal income taxes. 501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues, other corporations who operate exclusively for promoting primarily common good and general welfare of people & community.

501(c)(4) organizations can not directly or indirectly participate or intervene in political campaigns for or in opposition to any candidate for public office. Contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations are usually not deductible as charitable contributions for U.S. federal income tax, with few exceptions. 501(c)(4) organizations are not required to disclose their donors publicly and the lack of disclosure has led to extensive use of the 501(c)(4). Provisions for organizations actively involved in lobbying, has become controversial. Criticized as 'dark money', spending from these organizations on political TV ads has exceeded spending from Super PACs.

The regulation allows Section 501(c)(4) organizations to self-declare, hold themselves as tax-exempt; they do not have to obtain any approval from the Internal Revenue Service, though they may. The origins of 501(c)(4) organizations date back to the Revenue Act of 1913, which created a new group of tax-exempt organizations dedicated to social welfare in a precursor to what is now Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(4).

20130510-President Obama was told today that the IRS had targeted Tea Party Organizations under the leadership of a Bush Appointment. Republicans then used the story to bolster fund raising. Of course, G.W. Bush in 2004 launched a 2 year probe on the Chairman of the NAACP, Julian Bond and did not end the probe until just before mid-term elections.