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Oh The Shocking Similarities: Team Obama's IRS Forget To Flatten Illegally Leaked Tax Return
Birther Report
6/7/2013
Excerpt:
Look At The Similarities: Team Obama's IRS Forget To Flatten Leaked Tax Return
Take note at the Obama connection mentioned @ 5:44 that is not included in the official transcript published by the GOV...
FULL VIDEO ... :
( video via c-span )
Testimony of
Dr. John C. Eastman
Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service
Chapman University School of Law
Chairman, The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Chairman of the Board, National Organization for Marriage
before the
Committee on Ways and Means
U.S. House of Representatives
Hearing on Internal Revenue Service Targeting of Non-Profit Entities Because of their Political Views
June 4, 2013
EXCERPTS:
[...] Portions of NOM’s Form 990, specifically Schedule B, which contains the names and addresses of NOM’s major donors, are not public. Like nearly every other non-profit organization, NOM does not publically disclose its donor information. Indeed, because of the vicious and at times even violent campaign of intimidation that has been waged against supporters of traditional marriage—intimidation that the Supreme Court itself has remarked upon—NOM jealously guards the confidentiality of its donors.
Nevertheless, on March 30, 2012, NOM became aware that its confidential tax information—specifically, its 2008 Form 990 Schedule B—had been obtained by the Human Rights Campaign (“HRC”)—NOM’s principal opponent in the political battles over the redefinition of marriage—published on its website, and republished on numerous other websites such as the Huffington Post. The donor names were not redacted, but there was another redaction on the PDF document that had been posted, and NOM’s computer analysts were able to remove the document’s redaction layer and discover that the document had originated from within the IRS itself. As the attached copy of that document reflects, the un-redacted original bore two markings that, according to Section 3.11.12.1.26 of the Internal Revenue Manual (01-01-2012), are placed on documents e-filed with the IRS by the IRS’s Central Information System. An identification number, “100560209,” was stamped diagonally across the middle of leaked tax return. More significantly, the header of each page read: “THIS IS A COPY OF A LIVE RETURN FROM SMIPS. OFFICIAL USE ONLY,” making unmistakably clear that the document was a confidential tax return whose source was within the IRS itself.
The willful unauthorized public disclosure of NOM’s 2008 Schedule B by the IRS or its employees is a violation of federal law, 26 U.S.C. § 6103. Indeed, it is a serious felony punishable by a $5,000 fine and up to five years in federal prison, penalties that apply both to IRS and other government employees and third parties. 26 U.S.C. § 7213(a)(1), (3). Civil remedies are also available to the taxpayer or non-profit entity whose tax return information was illegally disclosed, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7431, which provides for either actual damages or statutory damages of $1,000 per illegal disclosure or inspection, plus punitive damages, litigation costs and attorneys fees.
NOM filed written requests for investigation on April 11, 2012, with both the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and the Department of Justice. NOM noted in those requests its belief, based on the computer forensic evidence it had uncovered, that the IRS had to be the source of the disclosure. TIGTA responded in an April 20, 2012 letter that acknowledged receipt of NOM’s request and provided NOM with a complaint number, No. 63-1204-0051-C. At the outset of the investigation, investigators from TIGTA sought to determine whether the document with the internal IRS markings might have originated from NOM, but once NOM demonstrated that it had not, we received no further information about the investigation. As of May 31, 2013, however, over a year after making the request, NOM had not received any information resulting from the requested investigation from TIGTA, although IRS officials stated publicly in recent testimony here in Congress that the investigation was not ongoing. [...]
Stonewalled in its attempts to discover on its own the source of the felonious conduct against it, NOM has also received no satisfaction from the law enforcement authorities of the United States, whose duty it is to prosecute felonious disclosure of confidential tax returns. According to 26 U.S.C § 7431(e), the Secretary of the Treasury is required to notify an affected entity, NOM in this instance, of any criminal charges made against an individual who disclosed that entity’s tax information. NOM has received no such notification, so it can only surmise that no criminal charges have been brought. We therefore strongly urge this Committee to pursue its own investigation of this matter, identify the culprit or culprits, and refer the matter for indictment and prosecution as warranted.
In light of the recent discovery that the IRS has been using additional scrutiny measures to target conservative groups filing for tax-except statuses through 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) classifications, an investigation into how NOM’s 2008 Form 990 Schedule B information was obtained by the HRC and the Huffington Post seems to carry even greater weight. As NOM’s President, Brian Brown,stated in a May 13, 2013 press release from NOM, “what NOM has experienced suggests that problems at the IRS are potentially far more serious than even these latest revelations reveal.” [...]
FULL TRANSCRIPT ................ : http://www.scribd.com/doc/146438133
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...-document.html
Birther Report
6/7/2013
Excerpt:
Look At The Similarities: Team Obama's IRS Forget To Flatten Leaked Tax Return
Take note at the Obama connection mentioned @ 5:44 that is not included in the official transcript published by the GOV...
FULL VIDEO ... :
( video via c-span )
Testimony of
Dr. John C. Eastman
Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service
Chapman University School of Law
Chairman, The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Chairman of the Board, National Organization for Marriage
before the
Committee on Ways and Means
U.S. House of Representatives
Hearing on Internal Revenue Service Targeting of Non-Profit Entities Because of their Political Views
June 4, 2013
EXCERPTS:
[...] Portions of NOM’s Form 990, specifically Schedule B, which contains the names and addresses of NOM’s major donors, are not public. Like nearly every other non-profit organization, NOM does not publically disclose its donor information. Indeed, because of the vicious and at times even violent campaign of intimidation that has been waged against supporters of traditional marriage—intimidation that the Supreme Court itself has remarked upon—NOM jealously guards the confidentiality of its donors.
Nevertheless, on March 30, 2012, NOM became aware that its confidential tax information—specifically, its 2008 Form 990 Schedule B—had been obtained by the Human Rights Campaign (“HRC”)—NOM’s principal opponent in the political battles over the redefinition of marriage—published on its website, and republished on numerous other websites such as the Huffington Post. The donor names were not redacted, but there was another redaction on the PDF document that had been posted, and NOM’s computer analysts were able to remove the document’s redaction layer and discover that the document had originated from within the IRS itself. As the attached copy of that document reflects, the un-redacted original bore two markings that, according to Section 3.11.12.1.26 of the Internal Revenue Manual (01-01-2012), are placed on documents e-filed with the IRS by the IRS’s Central Information System. An identification number, “100560209,” was stamped diagonally across the middle of leaked tax return. More significantly, the header of each page read: “THIS IS A COPY OF A LIVE RETURN FROM SMIPS. OFFICIAL USE ONLY,” making unmistakably clear that the document was a confidential tax return whose source was within the IRS itself.
The willful unauthorized public disclosure of NOM’s 2008 Schedule B by the IRS or its employees is a violation of federal law, 26 U.S.C. § 6103. Indeed, it is a serious felony punishable by a $5,000 fine and up to five years in federal prison, penalties that apply both to IRS and other government employees and third parties. 26 U.S.C. § 7213(a)(1), (3). Civil remedies are also available to the taxpayer or non-profit entity whose tax return information was illegally disclosed, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7431, which provides for either actual damages or statutory damages of $1,000 per illegal disclosure or inspection, plus punitive damages, litigation costs and attorneys fees.
NOM filed written requests for investigation on April 11, 2012, with both the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and the Department of Justice. NOM noted in those requests its belief, based on the computer forensic evidence it had uncovered, that the IRS had to be the source of the disclosure. TIGTA responded in an April 20, 2012 letter that acknowledged receipt of NOM’s request and provided NOM with a complaint number, No. 63-1204-0051-C. At the outset of the investigation, investigators from TIGTA sought to determine whether the document with the internal IRS markings might have originated from NOM, but once NOM demonstrated that it had not, we received no further information about the investigation. As of May 31, 2013, however, over a year after making the request, NOM had not received any information resulting from the requested investigation from TIGTA, although IRS officials stated publicly in recent testimony here in Congress that the investigation was not ongoing. [...]
Stonewalled in its attempts to discover on its own the source of the felonious conduct against it, NOM has also received no satisfaction from the law enforcement authorities of the United States, whose duty it is to prosecute felonious disclosure of confidential tax returns. According to 26 U.S.C § 7431(e), the Secretary of the Treasury is required to notify an affected entity, NOM in this instance, of any criminal charges made against an individual who disclosed that entity’s tax information. NOM has received no such notification, so it can only surmise that no criminal charges have been brought. We therefore strongly urge this Committee to pursue its own investigation of this matter, identify the culprit or culprits, and refer the matter for indictment and prosecution as warranted.
In light of the recent discovery that the IRS has been using additional scrutiny measures to target conservative groups filing for tax-except statuses through 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) classifications, an investigation into how NOM’s 2008 Form 990 Schedule B information was obtained by the HRC and the Huffington Post seems to carry even greater weight. As NOM’s President, Brian Brown,stated in a May 13, 2013 press release from NOM, “what NOM has experienced suggests that problems at the IRS are potentially far more serious than even these latest revelations reveal.” [...]
FULL TRANSCRIPT ................ : http://www.scribd.com/doc/146438133
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...-document.html