{"id":2574,"date":"2015-10-26T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:38:49","slug":"the-irs-scandal-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/26\/the-irs-scandal-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Scandal That Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/the-irs-scandal-scandal-no-more\" target=\"_blank\">notes <\/a>the passing of a scandal, although the GOP won&#8217;t let a trivial detail such as an official finding of no criminal activity stand in their way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/documents\/2015-10-23%20DOJ%20to%20HOGR%20%28IRS%29%20-%20Chmn%20Chaffetz%20RM%20Cummings.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">letter<\/a> (pdf) to the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s leadership, the DOJ official explained, \u201cOur investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia, leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints. But poor management is not a crime, We found no evidence that any IRS official acted on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When your ideology is that the other side is <i>evil<\/i>, this is what we see &#8211; like dogs worrying at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwj1ne7wquDIAhVBUmMKHXRlDqc&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.petpoisonhelpline.com%2Fpet-safety-tips%2Fis-chocolate-poisonous-to-dogs%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyk2hmxJMq9L3aSB2i-BPVS2E-Vw&amp;sig2=lNSl7BSX4R5lPUDsQTUTgg\" target=\"_blank\">20 pound lump of chocolate.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen notes the passing of a scandal, although the GOP won&#8217;t let a trivial detail such as an official finding of no criminal activity stand in their way. In a letter (pdf) to the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s leadership, the DOJ official explained, \u201cOur investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/26\/the-irs-scandal-that-wasnt\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}