{"id":36360,"date":"2013-05-17T06:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36360"},"modified":"2013-05-17T06:14:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:14:21","slug":"too-far-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36360","title":{"rendered":"Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House wants us to believe that dozens of IRS career bureaucrats spontaneously and simultaneously lost their minds and decided to start breaking the law to persecute Conservatives, with no direction from above, no warning to anyone in authority and no way to stop them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s ridiculous. It wasn&#8217;t sudden at all, it&#8217;s been going on for ages.<\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t this lie work? The same standard of BS has worked for years with the complicity of the liberal main stream media. Until the AP email story broke, it was working.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until the media finds itself under attack, there&#8217;s really no crime the AP and the rest of the Praetorian Guard won&#8217;t sweep under the rug.<\/p>\n<p>In a related matter: \u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/05\/irs-official-in-charge-during-tea-party-targeting-now-runs-health-care-office\/\">this circumstantial evidence of administration knowledge<\/a>? \u00a0(Empasis is added)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations<\/strong> between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and <strong>is now the director of the IRS\u2019 Affordable Care Act office<\/strong>, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.<\/p>\n<p>Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.<\/p>\n<p>Grant announced today that he would retire June 3, despite being appointed as commissioner of the tax-exempt office May 8, a week ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From administrator of a bureaucratic unit that took care of tax-exempt applications to head of the biggest and most politically-linked part of the IRS, a part slated for massive expansion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;a coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: The White House wants us to believe that dozens of IRS career bureaucrats spontaneously and simultaneously lost their minds and decided to start breaking the law to persecute Conservatives, with no direction from above, no warning to anyone in authority and no way to stop them. That&#8217;s ridiculous. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36362,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions\/36362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}