Of provoking vladimir putin into thinking otherwise. look, the word they clearly do not like today, that kirby made plain, the white house made plain is this word targeting. they re claiming they re not targeting russian generals. and you know, we didn t specifically say that. but why do you provide this intelligence to ukraine? this is so they can target and kill russian forces, including russian generals. it s, this is a war, that s what warring parties do. so it is a little bit dn disingenuous, it is a little double speak to say that s not what this intelligence is for. the intelligence is for fighting a war. the russian military, pack to the core of the story, puts a lot more of the high ranking officers on the battlefield compared to other nations. talk to me about this. are the ukrainians using that to their advantage? are the russians learning a
Shoved into an early retirement. the second head to roll was the commissioner of the agency s tax exemption division. president obama has now appointed a new interim irs commissioner and it is likely that the new commissioner s job will at least for a while be taken up with responding to the gazillion new investigations that the irs has now being subjected to. department of justice is investigating along with the fbi. the senate is investigating. the house is investigating. and that all follows the initial inspector general investigation. all looking into the improper scrutiny that the irs allegedly gave and seems to are given to conservative groups who were applying for tax exempt status. here is something to watch though. that s not about that issue of extra scrutiny and therefore extra delays for the conservative group singled out on the basis of their apparent ideology. here is the thing to watch other than that. late last year the same irs office in cincinnati handling application
Groups, the same office that did the tea party key word targeting, last year that same office also released tax documents about a bunch of political groups to a news gathering operation called pro publica, an independent non-profit newsroom that specializes in investigative reporting. last year they were working on a series of articles on the relationship between tax exempt status and these supposed social welfare non-profits that are just political groups. in the court of that investigator work pro publica went to the source, they went to the irs office in cincinnati which was responsible for reviewing applications from those kind of groups, and they asked that irs office for the applications from a whole bunch of these group. they asked for the applications from 67 different non-profit groups. for what it is worth, this was all after the presidential election. thee requests came in november 15th. but a couple of weeks after they put in the request the irs responded and the irs did n
Applications from these types of groups, the same office that did the tea party key word targeting, last year that same office also released tax documents about a bunch of political groups to a news gathering operation called pro publica, an independent non-profit newsroom that specializes in investigative reporting. last year they were working on a series of articles on the relationship between tax exempt status and these supposed social welfare non-profits that are just political groups. in the court of that investigator work pro publica went to the source, they went to the irs office in cincinnati which was responsible for reviewing applications from those kind of groups, and they asked that irs office for the applications from a whole bunch of these group. they asked for the applications from 67 different non-profit groups. for what it is worth, this was all after the presidential election. thee requests came in november 15th. but a couple of weeks after they put in the request th