Scandal after scandal - The list goes on, and on, and on. Weaponizing the IRS is an old tactic.
Margaret Milner Richardson, "Peggy" Richardson, was involved with Terry McAuliffe and Anthony Rodham in the Greentech Automotive EB-5 VISA scandal. More on this on page three of this ALIPAC thread.
http://www.alipac.us/f9/virginia-res...55/index3.html


Originally created 02/01/97



Probe the partisan IRS 020197 - The Augusta Chronicle

By
Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff


The Liberal Establishment and its media allies were outraged when recently-released Watergate era tapes revealed President Richard Nixon ordered top aides to hire an Internal Revenue Service commissioner who would "go after my enemies." Well, it never happened. Nixon was just blowing off steam.

But while the high-and-mighty keepers of our civil rights waxed indignant over IRS abuses the 37th president only talked about, they're currently ignoring blatant IRS abuses occurring right now under the 42nd president.

The IRS is busily auditing about 12 conservative non-profit, tax-exempt organizations Ä including the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, the American Spectator and William F. Buckley's National Review.

No comparable organizations or journals on the political Left are being audited or harassed!

When asked last week if President Clinton was politicizing the IRS, White House spokesman Mike McCurry huffed, "I'm not aware of any credible news organization that's reported anything like that."

Apparently he doesn't believe The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and The Washington Times are credible. They're the news organizations that have been reporting the story. Maybe it's time The Washington Post, The New York Times and the major television networks stop fretting over Nixon's IRS abuses and begin reporting on those by Clinton.

The IRS is run by Margaret Milner Richardson, a self-described "yellow-dog Democrat" and close Hillary Clinton confidante. We don't think it's any coincidence whatsoever she ordered audits of two of the organizations prominently named in a recently-exposed White House "enemies' list."

The respected Heritage Foundation, which endorses no candidates or partisan activity, was inexplicably targeted after it sent out a fall fund-raising letter signed by Bob Dole. (Tax-exempt foundations of all ideologies routinely mail fund-raising letters signed by political celebrities.)

The director of the Western Journalism Center, which has reporters investigating the death of Clinton aide Vincent Foster, quotes one IRS agent as telling the group's accountant, "Look, this is a political case, and the decision about your tax-exempt status will be made at the national level."

Now we know why the audits are occurring. Both the Heritage think-tank and the Journalism Center were secretly listed as "enemies" in the widely-ridiculed White House conspiracy report that has just come to light. (And we thought Nixon was the only president who compiled such lists.)

It is clearly time for a full-scale congressional investigation, complete with hearings, to determine just how far Margaret Milner Richardson has politicized what must always be a non-political IRS audit process.

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