{"id":18559,"date":"2013-08-08T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18559"},"modified":"2013-08-08T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:16:37","slug":"investigation-of-irs-scandal-uncovers-links-to-the-fec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18559\/investigation-of-irs-scandal-uncovers-links-to-the-fec\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation of IRS Scandal Uncovers Links to the FEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How often do the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Elections Commission share information about non-profit political groups?<\/p>\n<p>If the question seems highly unusual that\u2019s because it is. Ordinarily, there is no reason for the two federal agencies to communicate about a private entity, yet <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/316077-issa-investigating-alleged-collusion-between-irs-and-fec\" target=\"_blank\">evidence is mounting<\/a> that IRS and FEC officials had several conversations about politically conservative non-profit groups.<\/p>\n<p>To recall, the IRS has the power to grant or strip a group\u2019s non-profit status, and the FEC is the main arbiter of political speech. If there is evidence of coordination between these two agencies to discriminate against associations because of their viewpoint, a whole new level of government corruption will emerge.<\/p>\n<p>To find out the truth, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is <a href=\"http:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/oversight-leaders-probe-irs-coordination-with-federal-election-commission\/ \" target=\"_blank\">requesting<\/a> \u201cAll documents and communications between or among any FEC official or employee and any IRS official or employee for the period January 1, 2008, to the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If past experience with the Obama administration is any guide, House committee staff could be in for a lot of reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Elections Commission share information about non-profit political groups? If the question seems highly unusual that\u2019s because it is. Ordinarily, there is no reason for the two federal agencies to communicate about a private entity, yet evidence is mounting that IRS and FEC officials had several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,351,150,4215,3949,735,1425],"class_list":["post-18559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-darrell-issa","tag-fec","tag-house","tag-irs","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}