{"id":1959,"date":"2013-05-15T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2018-06-14T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:40:04","slug":"rand-paul-wants-criminal-charges-against-officials-involved-in-irs-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/15\/rand-paul-wants-criminal-charges-against-officials-involved-in-irs-targeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul wants criminal charges against officials involved in IRS targeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday introduced a resolution in the Senate calling for law enforcement to determine whether anyone in the Obama administration should be charged with a crime over the \u201ctargeting of tea party groups by the Internal Revenue Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican senator\u2019s resolution states that \u201can independent authority should be authorized to investigate and, if applicable, seek criminal charges against any individuals who authorized or were involved in targeting people of the United States based on their political views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also states that \u201cif other entities in the administration of President Obama were involved in or were aware of the discrimination and did not take action to stop the actions of the Internal Revenue Service; President Obama should terminate the individuals responsible for targeting and willfully discriminating against tea party groups and other conservative groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the IRS acknowledged it specifically targeted tea party and conservative groups in investigating whether these organizations had violated their tax exempt status.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:\u00a0<a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/05\/14\/rand-paul-wants-criminal-charges-against-officials-involved-in-irs-targeting\/\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/05\/14\/rand-paul-wants-criminal-charges-against-officials-involved-in-irs-targeting\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.c \u2026 ed-in-irs-targeting\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday introduced a resolution in the Senate calling for law enforcement to determine whether anyone in the Obama administration should be charged with a crime over the \u201ctargeting of tea party groups by the Internal Revenue Service.\u201d The Republican senator\u2019s resolution states that \u201can independent authority should be authorized to investigate and, if applicable, seek criminal charges against any individuals who authorized or were involved in targeting people of the United States based on their political views.\u201d The resolution also states that \u201cif other entities in the administration of President Obama were involved in or were aware of the discrimination and did not take action to stop the actions of the Internal Revenue Service; President Obama should terminate the individuals responsible for targeting and willfully discriminating against tea party groups and other conservative groups.\u201d On Friday, the IRS acknowledged it specifically targeted tea party and conservative groups in investigating whether these organizations had violated their tax exempt status. Full article:\u00a0http:\/\/dailycaller.c \u2026 ed-in-irs-targeting\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[926,1425],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-irs","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}