THE MURDEROUS VIRUS IN THE MIDDLE EAST...

A collage made from the portraits of Stalin and Hitler. Inspired by Overy's "The Dictators:Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia" ISBN 0393020304, 9780393020304. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

No I am not referring to Ebola.

They are calling it "Radical Islam," a futile attempt to cloak mass murder by serial killers under the guise of some kind of religious crusade or cause.

The perpetrators are stark, raving mad.

It brings to mind the likes of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. No one would argue how sick those two were.

And yet even they did not compare with the atrocities committed by Adolf HItler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and other famous mass murders.

Whatever their cloak might be, whether it is the curtain of political ideology, or the dark blanket of a "bad childhood," or the excuse of advancing their religion, their blood-lust is the same.

They simply want to murder and to terrorize. Their reasons are merely excuses to kill.

When did any one of them ever build anything?  When did they ever cause or advance the cause of "Life" and "Living."

They are despicable criminals. They are Sociopaths. "Anti-Socials," the psychologists call them.

Usually there are social restraints that keep these blokes in check and under wraps.  But when the social mores deteriorate and dissolve; when our religous Commandments are suppressed and invalidated, these perversions of society feel safe enough to emerge and to act out their depravity upon the rest of the community and upon the rest of the world.

Forget the fancy labels. They are criminals. thugs, murderers.  Take away their flags, their guns, their cannons, rockets, knives and swords, put them in jail, and what do you have?

...  A stark-raving mad criminal in a cage.

Root out those that would make excuses for them, who would enable those that terrorize women and children.

Give them no consideration other than to quarantine them from those that can reason.  Eliminate the threat.  Give them no refuge, no quarter, and no place to hide

And then get on with the business of building a civilization with which we can thrive.

Did the Obama Administration Assassinate An FBI "Asset?"

Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen October 2008, taken by Muhammad ud-Deen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Emails released by Judicial Watch, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act are fueling speculation that the terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki, could have been an FBI asset.

Al-Awlaki, you may recall was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone attack in 2011. He was a U.S. born citizen from New Mexico with parents from Yemen.

Judicial Watch says the emails:

"...dating back to December 2003 suggest that agency personnel were bothered by the Commission’s [referring to the 9/11 Commission] “numerous and unrelenting requests” and were dismissive of the Commission’s work. The emails indicate that the FBI refused to set up interviews between the Commission and al-Aulaqi, and was surprised to learn of the Commission’s trip to Yemen, in what turned out to be a futile attempt to track down the terrorist..."

Among the emails that suggest a connection, collaboration or cooperation by al-Awlaki with FBI officials is the following, in which al-Awlaki says to an FBI addressee:

"...I was astonished by some of the talk circulating in the media about me. I was even more surprised to know that the congressional report on Sep 11 had alluded to me as being a “spiritual adviser” to the hijackers. The Guardian newspaper in the UK mentioned that the US authorities are looking for me in the UK while Time magazine mentions that they are looking for me in Yemen. Well in both countries I could be easily accessed. Even though I have nothing more to say than what I did at our previous meetings I just wanted to let you know that I am around and available. I am amazed at how absurd the media could be and I hope that the US authorities know better and realize that what was mentioned about me was nothing but lies..."

Judicial Watch enlightens us with this:

"...Al-Aulaqi’s email offering to meet with the FBI after being identified as a person of interest by the Commission is the latest in a series of events that have fueled speculation that he was an asset or an intelligence source for the U.S. government..."
"...Indeed, one memo obtained by Judicial Watch from then-FBI Director Robert Mueller to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft on October 3, 2002 — seven days before the imam suddenly re-entered the U.S., was detained and then released at JFK Airport – is marked “Secret” and titled 'Anwar Aulaqi: IT-UBL/AL-QAEDA.' The FBI ordered al-Aulaqi’s release at JFK, even though an arrest warrant was still active at the time of his detention. On October 22, 2002, 12 days after the imam’s return, another FBI memo, also marked 'Secret,' includes the subject line 'Anwar Nasser Aulaqi' and 'Synopsis: Asset reporting.'..."

JW says:

"...The new FBI documents are just the latest in a continuing series of internal records Judicial Watch has obtained concerning the relationship between Anwar al-Aulaqi and the agency. In January 2014, Judicial Watch obtained 79 pages of previously unreleased surveillance reports and logs from the FBI providing evidence of ties between terrorist leaders Anwar Al-Aulaqi and Omar al Bayoumi, the government of Saudi Arabia, and FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) counter-terrorism investigations in the days leading up to the 9-11 terrorist attack..."

A 2010 report by Catherine Herridge of Fox News revealed that Anwar All-Awlaki, "An AlQaeda Leader, Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11."

According to Herridge:

"...Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks...The incident was flagged by a current Defense Department employee who came forward and told investigators she helped arrange the meeting after she saw Awlaki speak in Alexandria, Va.
...The employee "attended this talk and while she arrived late she recalls being impressed by this imam. He condemned Al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks. During his talk he was 'harassed' by members of the audience and suffered it well,' reads one document. ...According to the documents, obtained as part of an ongoing investigation by the specials unit 'Fox News Reporting,' there was a push within the Defense Department to reach out to the Muslim community..." 

 The Herridge report was particularly enlightening, given the allegations at the time about Al-Awlaki's contacts and connections: Herridge says (in that same 2010 report) :

"...Awlaki, a Yemeni-American who was born in Las Cruces, N.M., was interviewed at least four times by the FBI in the first week after the attacks because of his ties to the three hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour. The three hijackers were all onboard Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon. 

Awlaki is now believed to be hiding in Yemen after he was linked to the alleged Ft. Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who e-mailed Awlaki prior to the attack. 
Sources told Fox News that Awlaki, who is a former Muslim chaplain at George Washington University, met with the Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Yemen and was the middle-man between the young Nigerian and the bombmaker. Awlaki was also said to inspire would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 
Apparently, none of the FBI's information about Awlaki was shared with the Pentagon. Former Army Secretary Tommy White, who led the Army in 2001, said he doesn't have any recollection of the luncheon or any contact with Awlaki. 
"If this was a luncheon at the Office of Government Counsel, I would not necessarily be there," he said. 
The Pentagon has offered no explanation of how a man, now on the CIA kills or capture list, ended up at a special lunch for Muslim outreach.
After repeated requests for comment on the vetting process beginning on October 13th, an Army spokesman insisted Wednesday that the lunch was not an Army event. "The Army has found no evidence that the Army either sponsored or participated in the event described in this report," spokesman Thomas Collins said.
Collins also noted that the FBI document referred to the “Office of Government Counsel” but should read “Office of General Counsel.”
Collins said he believed the event was sponsored by the office of the Secretary of Defense. A spokeswoman there said she would look into it and get back to Fox News.
A former high-ranking FBI agent told Fox News that at the time Awlaki went to lunch at the Pentagon, there was tremendous "arrogance" about the vetting process at the Pentagon. 
"They vetted people politically and showed indifference toward security and intelligence advice of others," the former agent said. 

Judicial Watch says that then FBI Director "...Mueller refused to deny that al-Aulaqi was recruited to be an asset of the Bureau or another federal agency, telling Fox News, 'I am not personally familiar with any effort to recruit Anwar al-Aulaqi as an asset – that does not mean to say there was not an effort at some level of the Bureau (FBI) or another agency to do so.'..."

JW explains that "...In January 2014, Judicial Watch obtained 79 pages of previously unreleased surveillance reports and logs from the FBI providing evidence of ties between terrorist leaders Anwar Al-Aulaqi and Omar al Bayoumi, the government of Saudi Arabia, and FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) counter-terrorism investigations in the days leading up to the 9-11 terrorist attack..."  And it says:

"...On September 11, 2013, Judicial Watch released surveillance reports and logs it had obtained from the FBI revealing that its agents trailed al-Aulaqi to the front doors of the Pentagon on the day he spoke as an invited guest at a Department of Defense luncheon.  The day before the surveillance and luncheon, al-Aulaqi had been identified as a “terrorist organization member,” and an FBI alert had been issued reading: “Warning – approach with caution . . . Do not alert the individual to the FBI’s interest and contact your local FBI field office at the earliest opportunity.” [Emphasis added] Judicial Watch had previously obtained documents from the U.S. State Department indicating that the FBI was aware on September 27, 2001, that al-Aulaqi had purchased airplane tickets for three of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers, including mastermind Mohammed Atta. Subsequent to the FBI’s discovery, al-Aulaqi was detained and released by authorities at least twice..."

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton concludes that:

"...These new documents raise troubling questions about the FBI’s dealings with Anwar al-Aulaqi, a known terrorist that the FBI knew had facilitated the 9/11 attacks.  The FBI’s refusal to assist the 9/11 Commission is an outright scandal that deserves further scrutiny.  I have little doubt that President Obama assassinated a terrorist that was an asset of the U.S. government...Was President Obama aware of al-Aulaqi’s connections to federal law enforcement?  These unanswered questions cast President Obama’s decision to assassinate al-Aulaqi in a disturbingly different light...”

ISIS Executioner ID'ed by FBI...

A report by Jill Reilly in MAILONLINE says that the "...FBI has identified the ISIS executioner who appears in the beheading videos of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker John Haines..."

Much to our dismay, here at Citizens Militia of Maine News*, according to Reilly, FBI Director, Comey "...would not be releasing his identity or nationality to the media..."

The report quotes Comey saying that:

"...the FBI believes that ISIS is 'looking to try to do something in the U.S.,' but added he did not believe the group is capable of a sophisticated or complex attack..."
"...he was 'not confident at all' the threat from Khorasan militant group was thwarted by the airstrikes..."
"... We believe [Khorasan] they've been working toward an attack, but it's hard to say whether it would come tomorrow, in three weeks, or in three months..."
"...the FBI is still working hard to identify two people in ISIS videos who appear to have American or Canadian accents..."
"...about a dozen Americans are believed to be fighting with extremist groups in Syria at the moment..."
AND...
"...more than 100 Americans have either tried to go to Syria and been arrested, gone successfully, or gone and come back..."

Here's the full Reilly report...

Now, as much as it disheartens us here at CMMR to have to announce that we are about to inject satire into this report, here, nevertheless, you go:

We, The People, these people, are elated that the FBI finally called the CIA to find out the identity of the terrorist in question, however, it is a bit disappointing that they did not stay on the line longer to see if they could glean just a wee bit more information from them. Pssst... Comey!  Try the NSA next time.  They can track anyone, and their phone plan is much better.  Cheers.

House Oversight Committee Resolution for Lois Lerner Contempt of Congress Passes

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has passed a resolution (in a 21-12) vote to
hold former Internal Revenue Service Tax Exempt Director, Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at two of the Committee's hearings.

The resolution posted by the Committee in advance of today's hearing states:

• "...Resolved, That because Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, offered a voluntary statement in testimony before the Committee, was found by the Committee to have waived her Fifth Amenment Privilege, was informed of the Committee's decision of waiver, and continued to refuse to testify before the Commitee, Ms. Lerner shall be found to be in contempt of Congress for failure to comply with a congressional subpoena.
• "...Resolved, That pursuant to 2 U.S.C. [//] 192 and 194, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall certify the report of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, detailing the refusal of Ms. Lerner to testify before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as directed by subpoena, to the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, to the end tht Ms. Lerner be proceeded against in the manner and form provided by law.
• "...Resolved, That the Speaker of the House shall otherwise take all appropriate action to enforce the subpoena..."

Lerner has been pressed by congressional investigators to testify in the matter of IRS subjecting Tea Party and Conservative groups and individuals to additional scrutiny as a result of those groups applying for tax exempt status.  The groups and Congressional Republicans assert that this amounted to political intimidation and repression by the IRS and therefore the Democrat Party and the Obama Administration.

Events that have unfolded since this became an issue, include the Attorney General appointing an Obama campaign contributor to head the Investigation, which Conservatives and Republicans charge is a conflict of interest, while the Attorney General maintains that no conflict of interest exists.

Additionally and most recently on the eve of the vote on the Resolution of Contempt of Congress, Republican Committee members have charged collusion between the lead Minority Committee member, Elijah Cummings and the IRS to target for additional scrutiny another group, "True the Vote," and a withholding of information about that targeting, amounting to a cover-up, and an attempt to thwart, slow, or otherwise impede the Oversight Committee's investigation.

The document includes, in addition to a summary of the resolution, and its statement of authority and purpose, a back ground on the Committee's Investigation, documents showing Lois Lerner's refusal to comply with the Committee's subpoena for testimony, and the document's conclusion which states in part:

"...On May 22, 2013, Ms. Lerner gave an opening statement and then refused to answer any of the Committee’s questions and asserted her Fifth Amendment privilege. On June 28, 2013, the Committee voted that Ms. Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment privilege. Chairman Issa subsequently recalled her to answer the Committee’s questions. When the May 22, 2013 hearing reconvened nine months later, on March 5, 2014, she again refused to answer any of the Committee’s questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment...In short, Ms. Lerner has refused to provide testimony in response to the Committee's duly issued subpoena..."

You can see the pdf file of the Resolution HERE

Top Democrat Oversight Committee Member Helped IRS Target Conservatives?

Congressman Elijah Cummings. Investigates The IRS, While Helping the IRS to Suppress the Tea Party and Conservatives?

The Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is alleging collusion between The Top Democrat member of that Committee and his staff, and the IRS in the targeting of Conservatives for additional scrutiny.

The Oversight Committee is one of the congressional bodies that is investigating the IRS's political persecution against the Tea Party organizations and Conservatives. The allegations of collusion between the IRS and Democrat Oversight Committee members and their staff raise questions about Democrats in that committee acting to slow, thwart, sabotage, or otherwise impede the investigation into the IRS abuses.

A media dispatch from Chairman of the Oversight Committee Darrel Issa referenced a letter signed by five subcommittee chairmen, in which Issa details allegations that Congressman Elijah Cummings worked with the IRS to request information about the targeted group, "True The Vote."  In the letter, Chairman Issa gets immediately to the point:

"...The Committee has engaged in a comprehensive and thorough examination of the IRS targeting of tax-exempt applicants.  From the very outset, you have worked to obstuct the investigation, even declaring on national television after only a few weeks of fact-finding that the "case is solved."  New IRS documents identified by the Commitee raise disturbing concerns about your possible motivations for opposing this investigation and unwillingness to lend your support to efforts to obtain the testimony of former IRS exempt Organizations Director Lois G. Lerner..."

The Congressmen explain their inquiry with details that have come to light during the investigation of the IRS by the Oversight Committee:

• The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings’ staff.
• Five days after Cummings contacted True the Vote seeking “copies of all training materials used for volunteers, affiliates, or other entities,” the IRS sent True the Vote a letter requesting True the Vote provide “a copy of [True the Vote’s] volunteer registration form,” “…the process you use to assign volunteers,” “how you keep your volunteers in teams,” and “how your volunteers are deployed … following the training they receive by you.”
• On or before January 25, 2013, Cummings’ staff requested more information from the IRS about True the Vote.  The head of the IRS Legislative Affairs office e-mailed several IRS officials, including former Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner, that “House Oversight Committee Minority staff” sought information about True the Vote.  On Monday, January 28, Lerner wrote to her deputy Holly Paz: “Did we find anything?”  When Paz informed her minutes later that she had not heard back about True the Vote’s information, Lerner replied: “thanks – check tomorrow please.
• On January 31, 2013, Paz attached True the Vote’s form 990s, which she authorized the IRS to share with the Minority staff.  Neither Cummings nor the IRS shared these requested documents with the Oversight Majority.  None of the Minority’s communications about True the Vote with the IRS were shared with the Committee Majority even though Ranking Member Cummings frequently complains about the Committee Majority contacting individuals on official matters without the involvement of Minority staff.
• Cummings denied that his staff, “might have been involved in putting True the Vote on the radar screen of some of these Federal agencies” at a February 6, 2014, Subcommittee hearing: 
• Ms. Mitchell:                      We want to get to the bottom of how these coincidences happened, and we’re going to try to figure out whether any – if there was any staff of this committee that might have been involved in putting True the Vote on the radar screen of some of these Federal agencies.  We don’t know that, but we – we’re going to do everything we can do to try to get to the bottom of how did this all happen.  
• Mr. Cummings.                 Will the gentleman yield?
• Mr. Meadows.                                  Yes.
• Mr. Cummings.                 I want to thank the gentleman for his courtesy.  What she just said is absolutely incorrect and not true.

Issa tells Cumings that:

"...Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, records of communication between your staff and IRS officials--which you did not disclose to Majority Members or staff--indicate otherwise.  As the Committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose, in contempt of Congress, you have an obligation to fully explain your staff's undisclosed contacts with the IRS..."

Does Issa then imply that there's a possible attempt to cover up Cummings' "collusion" with the IRS?  He tells Cummings in the letter:

"...the involvement of IRS officials at the center of the targeting scandal responding to your requests, raise serious questions about your actions and motivations for trying to bring this investigation to a premature end.  If the Committee, as you publicly suggested in June 2013, 'wrap[ped] this case up and moved on ' at that time, the Committee may have never seen documents raising questions about your possible coordination with the IRS in communications that excluded the Committee Majority.  Your frequent complaints about the Committee Majority contacting individuals on official matters without the involvement of Minority staff make reasons for your staff's secretive correspondence with the IRS even more mysterious..."

Today the Oversight Committee is convening to consider a "...Resolution Recommending that the House of Representatives Find Lois G. Lerner, Former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, In Contempt of Congress for Refusal to Comply With a Subpoena Duly Issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform..."

Lois Lerner, the IRS and The "Inherent Contempt" Power of Congress

Logo of Internal Revenue Service, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Inherent Contempt" is a doctrine that gives Congress the power to bring "recalcitrant" witnesses in to testify, by force, if necessary.

In the case of the former IRS Director of the (tax) exempt department of the Internal Revenue Service, Lois Lerner, who has repeatedly refused to testify before Congress about her role in the political targeting of Conservatives, Republicans continue to appeal to the Justice Department to investigate possible infractions by Executive Branch employees in the Obama administration.

However, the Justice Department has not been forthcoming, and has instead, much to the chagrin of conservatives in Congress, appointed what some allege, is a partisan Justice employee as the lead investigator.

Conservatives have asserted the inappropriate appointment of Barbara Bosserman, to head the Investigation, because, they allege, she has been a financial contributor to the Obama re-election campaign, and has, therefore, a conflict of interest.

Additionally, conservatives claim that the Attorney General, Eric Holder, and the Department of Justice have been dragging their feet with respect to addressing the concerns of those targeted for unwarranted additonal scrutiny by the IRS.

Just today, the Ways and Means Committee has referred the case of Lois Lerner to the Justice Department with a list of alleged infractions, and the House is now faced with an impasse if the DOJ decides not to direct a Grand Jury to investigate the allegations.

But Congress is not without recourse, and this is where "Inherent Contempt" comes in.  According to this doctrine, Congress can compel someone to testify by "force" if necessary.  This is considered to mean that if a person refuses to testify before Congress or one of its committees, they can be arrested and jailed. Precedent exists in the following forms:

• "...In 1795, shortly after the Constitution was ratified, the House ordered its sergeant at arms to arrest and detain two men accused of trying to bribe members of Congress. The House held a trial and convicted one of them..."
• "...In 1821, the Supreme Court upheld Congress’s right to hold people in contempt and imprison them. Without this power, the court ruled, Congress would 'be exposed to every indignity and interruption, that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may mediate against it.'..."
• "...Later, in a 1927 case arising from the Teapot Dome scandal, the court upheld the Senate’s arrest of the brother of a former attorney general — carried out in Ohio by the deputy sergeant at arms — for ignoring a subpoena to testify..." (NYT 4 Dec 07)

Congress prepared itself to use "...inherent contempt in 2007 when it was ready to hold Joshua Bolten, Bush Administration Chief of Staff, and Harriet Miers, former White House Counsel, in contempt for  failing to comply with subpoenas in the United States Attorneys Scandal..."

[Background Information]:  In that case (from an article by Adam Cohen in the New York Times; December 4, 2007) "...Cases appear to have been brought against Democrats and blocked against Republicans to help Republicans win elections. The stakes have grown steadily: it now seems that innocent people, like Georgia Thompson, a Wisconsin civil servant, may have been jailed for political reasons. Congress has a duty to find out what happened..." See article HERE 

In that same article, Cohen reports that "... The Congressional Research Service issued a report in July [of that year] that confirmed Congress’s inherent contempt powers. It explained how they work: 'The individual is brought before the House or Senate by the sergeant at arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned in the Capitol jail.' Congress can do this, the report concluded, to compel them to testify or to punish them for their refusal to do so..."

He continues with:  "...Congress’s inherent contempt powers are not limitless. If it arrested noncooperating witnesses in the United States attorneys scandal — and there are more than just Mr. Bolten and Ms. Miers — then they would have the right to challenge their confinement in federal court. Ironically, they would rely on the habeas corpus right that the Bush administration has been whittling away..."

Back then, the shoe was on the other foot of the other political party, and Cohen expressed the following:

"...This country has seen far too much of this sort of dismissal of Congress’s authority. There is a simple way to avoid a constitutional showdown: If Congress holds witnesses in contempt, the Justice Department should enforce the subpoenas. Mr. Mukasey [then Attorney General] would need to focus not on the White House’s interests, but rather on his duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed..."

Today, it could be said, the same should be declared for Attorney General Eric Holder to "avoid a constitutional showdown."

And, today, House Ways and Means Committee member, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, told the Washington Examiner, in reference to the possibility of Congress utilizing "Inherent Contempt" to compel testimony from Lois Lerner, "...I think we'll deal with that, should that occur, but I think this too is an ongoing investigation, and, frankly, for the attorney general to turn a blind eye to this evidence would discredit him greatly...this is a very thorough, deliberate investigation...This congressional referral is commonplace when we find evidence of wrongdoing from the legislative branch...The Department of Justice prematurely claimed and announced that it would not be pursuing wrongdoing charges, which tells me that they are at this point not taking the investigation seriously,"

The Examiner's Joel Gehrke pointed out, that when Brady was pressed to rule out the idea of the House using the "inherent contempt" doctrine against Lerner, Brady "chose not to do so."

According to the House Oversight Committee Calendar, scheduled at tomorrow's (Thursday April, 10) full business meeting, will be the consideration of a "...Resolution Recommending that the House of Representatives Find Lois G. Lerner, Former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, In Contempt of Congress for Refusal to Comply With a Subpoena Duly Issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform..."

IRS OPENLY CAMPAIGNS FOR OBAMA...

While the IRS has been busily persecuting Conservatives and the Tea Party for their political beliefs, offices of the IRS have also been openly campaigning for Obama and the Democrat Party.

To Wit:

• "...it was 'commonplace' in a Dallas IRS office for employees to have pro-Obama screensavers on their computers, and to have campaign-style buttons and stickers at their office..."
• "...In another case, a worker at the tax agency’s customer help line urged taxpayers “to re-elect President Obama in 2012 by repeatedly reciting a chant based on the spelling of his last name...”
• "...Another IRS employee in Kentucky has agreed to serve a 14-day suspension for blasting Republicans in a conversation with a taxpayer. 'They’re going to take women back 40 years,' the IRS employee said in a conversation that was recorded. The employee also said that 'if you vote for a Republican, the rich are going to get richer and the poor are going to get poorer'...”

This from a report by Stephen Dinan @ The Washington Times, which you can read HERE in its entirety.