Bring It On! – December 18, 2023: Jesse Hagopian, Educator and Social Activist – WFHB
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they themselves made a decision that was overtly non-partisan and non-ideological and neutral on the ideological part of it, nobody would be peeping about this really, but the fact that they put this ideological spin on it themselves, yeah, this isn t over. michael isikoff, nbc news investigative correspondent, mike, thanks very much for helping us with it. appreciate, it rachel. one of the things to watch for tom, the big bottom line, none of the groups targeted by the irs got their applications denied but one of the things in the ig report is although they didn t get denied, they have may have been delayed, maybe unconscionably delayed by going through this process. was this a way of keeping people out of political process in a way they otherwise would have been able to be had they gone through the process quicker? watch for that tomorrow. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is george.
its tax status threatened by the irs explicitly on the basis of them criticizing the presidency of george w. bush. tonight president obama says he wants the treasury secretary to hold accountable those responsible for subjecting conservative groups to extra scrutiny and delays in their applications to the irs for tax-exempt status. is it appropriate to contexturalize this current irs scandal amid the history, the long sordid dirty history using that agency and others as a tool of clear political warfare? or is this something else? joining us now for the interview is dan rather. he s anchor and managing editor of dan rather reports on axs tv. his latest report is operation streamline. mr. rather, thanks for being here. always a pleasure to be here. what is your big picture perspective on how big a scandal this current irs scandal is and how it relates to the very overt
investigative correspondent. mike, thanks for being here. great to be here, rachel. one of the things i wanted to ask you about the ig report lays out irs criteria for who to target, how to target scrutiny for these applications using a bolo which is an acronym for be on the lookout. right. can you explain that? that was one of the most delicious parts of the report in reading it. i mean, we ve all heard of bolos when the fbi issues them for terrorists or bank robbers. i was not aware until this all these disclosures that the irs issues its own bolos, in this case for people whose names organizations with names the tea party in it, but it s pretty chilling to learn that the irs would be issuing bolos, which really ultimately is a form of profiling in this case. they are saying anybody who has that name in it, we ve got to look at and give special scrutiny so that was a bit
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