{"id":2298,"date":"2017-04-03T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2017-04-04T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:21:50","slug":"irs-commissioner-john-koskinen-target-conservatives-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/04\/irs-commissioner-john-koskinen-target-conservatives-time\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Commissioner John Koskinen a target of conservatives and it\u2019s about time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The egregious treatment of conservative and Tea Party groups by the IRS has gone too long unpunished. Now, conservatives are finally getting serious about taking to task those responsible for targeting right-leaning non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n

A meeting was recently organized with staffers of President Trump by White House conservative liaison Paul Teller and included about two dozen conservative leaders to discuss their wishes for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, according to The Daily Caller<\/a>.\u00a0 Their message to Trump\u2019s team? Remove\u00a0all Obama-era bureaucrats so that the Trump administration can successfully pursue its stated agenda. One major step to that end is firing Koskinen, something Congress hadn\u2019t the courage to do last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cKoskinen allegedly defied<\/a> congressional subpoenas and preservation orders by allowing the destruction of potentially incriminating evidence on former IRS official Lois Lerner\u2019s involvement in the targeting scandal,\u201d notes the DC\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

If Trump is serious about draining the swamp, there\u2019s no better candidate. Koskinen has proven he\u2019s not on the side of the American people or the law of our country. It\u2019s taken too long to even get to this point. Firing him immediately is the only path to justice.<\/p>\n

The Trump\u00a0administration should instruct the DOJ to stop stalling in the NorCal Tea Party vs. IRS class action case, to turn over all requested documents without further delay, and to immediately move towards settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n

H\/T TaxProf Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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