[EL] BOLOs, TAGs, and Drums

JBoppjr at aol.com JBoppjr at aol.com
Thu Aug 8 11:33:30 PDT 2013


Regarding this:
 
The Republicans must be getting  rather frustrated at this point, having 
invested so much time and effort into  trying to connect the Obama 
Administration to a juicy scandal – hopefully  against the right – c to be foiled by a 
mundane explanation at every  turn
 
 
This whole scandal arose when Lois Lerner of the IRS announced that an  
Inspector General audit had revealed that the IRS had  improperly targeted 
conservative groups for heightened scrutiny and  had wrongly delayed their 
applications. We now know that one of the only two  political appointees at the 
IRS, the General Counsel, was intimately  involved.  And we know that 
President Obama spent years demonizing these  groups and urging his supporters to 
get them. Obama set the goal for the  bureaucracy and it is not surprising 
then it was carried out. And now he is  protecting them by declaring this a 
"phoney" scandal and by his  minions slow walking and stonewalling any 
investigations. There does not  have to be a memo from Obama to the IRS telling 
them to do all this and I  am sure there is no such memo. He just needs to set 
the goal for this to happen  and for that he is to be condemned.  
 
What amazes me about these simple indisputable facts is the response  of 
Marc and others to just deny them and defend what happened.  A  government 
that will do this to conservatives - who you hate and want to get --  is just 
as likely to do it to liberals.  Have you already forgot Nixon's  enemies 
list and his instructions to the IRS to get them?  So if nothing  else about 
this concerns you, simple self preservation should. Jim Bopp
 
In a message dated 8/8/2013 12:25:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mpoweru4 at gmail.com writes:

 
Several  years ago, an organization beginning to put together local farmers 
markets I  was on the Board of applied for 501(c)(3) status. It had been 
specifically  encouraged to do this under a Department of Agriculture program 
designed to  promote farmers markets as a boon to local farmers, local 
economies, and  nutrition. The IRS apparently had not gotten the memo from the 
Department  of  Agriculture, and papered the organization to death with 
hundreds of  written interrogatories and requests for production under tight 
deadlines. We  found out that the IRS was also doing this to many other similar 
farmers  market organizations, apparently out of some unknown IRS official’s 
misguided  belief that Farmers’ Market organizations were inherently 
businesses posing as  non-profits.  
The  IRS’s unofficial attitude toward farmers markets in general caused the 
 Farmer’s Market organization I was involved with to abandon its effort to  
organize under 501(c)(3), even though, as far as I could tell, the  
organization was of the kind that 501(c)(3) status was designed to help, and  was 
doing things consistent with public policies promoted by the Department of  
Agriculture. 
These  BOLOs and “IRSgate” have always impressed me as similar stupidity 
to the  above, not conspiracy. The Republicans must be getting rather 
frustrated at  this point, having invested so much time and effort into trying to 
connect the  Obama Administration to a juicy scandal – hopefully against the 
right – c to  be foiled by a mundane explanation at every turn. But even in 
the absence of  conspiracy, if we are going to have (c)(4)s involved in 
issue advocacy, it  should not matter what type of organizations the “key words”
 screening pulls  out: any such screening is likely to chill, and will 
disadvantage someone’s  voice which is likely representing an interest, or 
competing with someone  elses. If we are going to maintain the advantages 
organizations benefit from  under (c)(4) there should be no such screening. A more 
interesting question  is whether in general it makes sense anymore for issue 
advocacy  organizations to enjoy the advantages available to them under 
(c)(4), and  whether issue advocacy orgs posing as (c)(3)s should continue to 
benefit from  tax advantages with so little critical IRS scrutiny. 
Marc  Greidinger 
Attorney  at Law 
https://www.facebook.com/GreidingerLegalWorks?ref=br_tf 
(703)  323-4661     
 
 

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Subject: Re: [EL] BOLOs, TAGs,  and Drums

The scandal was  supposed to be that IRS employees targeted conservative 
groups because of  their political beliefs. That is in fact a scandalous 
accusation for what is  supposed to be a non-partisan agency strictly above 
politics and which needs  the trust of the American people to function.  
Joe LaRue  says: 
“And I continue to  beat my drum  and say: it doesn't matter whether it was 
all conservative groups, or all  progressive ones, or a mixture of each 
that was  targetted.” 
I disagree. If it  turns out that the IRS challenged both progressive and 
conservative groups,  delayed their c4 applications, put them in dead-end 
piles, audited them after  complaints were received, and general poorly managed 
their status, then we  have a completely different issue. If this turns out 
to be the case—whether  through “BOLOS” or “emergent issues”—then the 
question becomes why did this  happen. Was it from mismanagement, 
understaffing, poor training or leadership,  or an  inability of the IRS to address the 
status of highly political c4s  under current rules and in the midst of a 
partisan battleground where members  of Congress of both parties are regularly 
attacking the agency for favoring  the other party? In other words, have 
they just frozen in the midst of battle?  That would be a scandal of 
maladministration, not the political vendetta that  has been alleged. Because, after 
all, the IRS does HAVE to determine whether  groups qualify for 501 c 4 
status, and then whether they are in compliance  with c 4 standards of conduct—
that is the agencies job, whether the groups are  progressive or 
conservative. 
Trevor  Potter 
 
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Subject:  Re: [EL] BOLOs, TAGs, and Drums
 
 
Brad, Brad,  Brad. Didn't you hear? The IRS only targeted  progressive, 
liberal groups. Or perhaps it is that no group was targeted;  the IRS was just 
doing its job. Regardless, there was no targeting of  conservative groups. 
The extra scrutiny applied to them, as well as the delays  they experienced, 
was all warranted. It doesn't matter what the IRS says.  After all, if we're 
going to revise history, and ignore the IRS's admissions  against interest 
(which is what some are doing), then we might as well do it  on a large 
scale. Go big or go home, right? So let's beat the drum together  that the IRS 
got it all wrong when it admitted it had improperly targeted  conservative 
groups. 
 

 
My only  question, I guess, is why is that a drum that anyone would want to 
beat?  Are some so politically driven that we cannot acknowledge that  
something dreadfully wrong happened here, simply because it happened to the  
other side? If the IRS can do it to conservative groups in the mid-2010s, then  
they can do it to progressive groups if the White House (or even just the  
IRS) becomes more conservative. And I continue to beat my drum and say: it  
doesn't matter whether it was all conservative groups, or all progressive  
ones, or a mixture of each that was targetted. What happened was wrong. And  
I remain shocked that that is not something  that we can all agree on. 
 

 
Joe 

 


 
 

 
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Smith, Brad <_BSmith at law.capital.edu_ 
(mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu) > wrote: 
 
 
Where does this  idea come from that they were evenly distributed? That's 
not what the IRS  says. 
 
 
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Subject: Re:  [EL] BOLOs, TAGs, and Drums
 
 
 
This seems like a very new drum  indeed. You seem to be saying that the 
very idea of a "BOLO" list, or what  I've also heard called an "emerging 
issues" list, is illegitimate. I don't  have the knowledge of IRS procedures that 
you do, but this is not an argument  I've heard before.
It really doesn't seem complicated. Groups with the word  "progressive" in 
their names or descriptions were getting some extra scrutiny  based on 
long-established practice. That makes sense: The Progressive Policy  Institute 
was established in 1991. Center for American Progress and the c(4)  American 
Progress Action Fund in 2003. Progressive States Network,   Progress Now and 
a bunch of "Progress [state]" c(4)s in 2005-2007, continuing  to recent 
years. Those are the ones that jump to my mind, but there are  others.  The IRS 
had a lot of time to absorb and consider those groups,  and still their 
applications took many months. "Tea Party," as we know, was  not a term that 
organizations were using before 2009-2010. And rather than the  slow growth 
curve of "progressive" c(4)'s, a lot of groups using Tea Party and  related but 
also new terms were created quite rapidly. Hence, it was an  "emerging 
issue," or something to look out for, on which a formal protocol had  not yet 
been established, but might need to be.

What am I missing here?  Both "progressive" and "Tea Party" groups were 
flagged for scrutiny, One term  was old, the other was new. Both faced delays, 
questions and obstacles. Maybe  those delays were themselves "wrong," as 
some have alleged, or maybe not, but  they were evenly distributed. If one came 
from  one kind of list, and the  other from another list, why do we care?
 


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(http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/) 
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twitter:  mschmitt9 
 
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:02 PM, <_BZall at aol.com_ (mailto:BZall at aol.com) > 
wrote: 
 
 
Sigh,  not to continue Prof. McDonald's "drum" analogy further, but there  
seems to be a continuing error of conflation in these discussions, both  on 
the Hill and in this thread. If Glenn Kessler ("The FactChecker" from  Jeff 
Bezos's newspaper) can figure this one out, so can those looking for the  
difference between treatments:
 

 
"Meanwhile,  Democrats have highlighted information that they say undercuts 
the thrust of  the Inspector general’s report. While that report focuses on 
scrutiny of “tea  party” and related groups — which had been placed on “
be on the lookout”  (BOLO) lists — Democrats released _documents_ 
(http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/N
ovember%202010%20BOLO%20IRS0000001349-IRS0000001364.pdf)  showing that the 
term “progressive” had been part  of a “TAG [touch-and-go] Historical” 
list." 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/explainer-sorting-through-charges-and-countercharges-in-the-irs-probe/2013/07/02/1cc2f520-e352-
11e2-aef3-339619eab080_blog.html
 

 
There  is a difference between a BOLO list and a TAG list ("Touch and Go"). 
See,  e.g., http://www.irs.gov/irm/part7/irm_07-020-006.html, explaining  
Touch and Go as a standard processing term in many highly-problematic areas.  
(Note: the Internal Revenue Manual is the internal description of standard  
procedures and can be relied on in certain tax or legal  proceedings.) Real 
TAG analyses are generally reserved for abusive  transactions (many of 
which involve exempt organizations) and have a very  specific chain of command 
and authority, plus review. Potential terrorism  issues, for example, are on 
TAG reviews. You can imagine the reviews  those generate. "Compliance" 
project reviews are generally not worthy of  the full TAG panoply. IRM 
7.20.6.1.2.1. 
 

 
To  the extent we even know what they are/were, BOLOs, on the other hand, 
are a  new and unreported (and apparently badly supervised) version of TAG 
lists  that raised many of these issues. Like TAGs, BOLOs use key words in the 
 database to identify possible transactions, but the differences are in the 
 structure, supervision, and probably the choice of terms as being 
recognized  for a particular definition of what the problem is. Who generated the 
terms?  We don't know. Who reviewed the terms? We don't know. Who reviewed the 
 selections based on those terms? We don't know. What was the process used 
once  a selection was made? We don't know. Etc. What we do know is that 
everyone  passed the buck or said they didn't know. 
 

 
In  other words, TAG reviews are what we expected the IRS to do if there 
had  really been a problem; BOLOs are not. BOLOs are, for want of a better  
description, rogue TAGs, and no one wanted to grab that leash to bring them  
under control. THAT is the scandal; not that groups' applications were  
scrutinized, but that the process was overwhelmingly one-sided and  unrestrained. 
 

 
There  is no IRM entry for BOLO lists, nor will there be, despite Cong. 
McDermott's  entreaties. 
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/27/rep_mcdermott_irs_should_keep_bolo_lists.html.  Having seen them in action, I 
would be surprised if EO or any other part of  IRS made the term "BOLO list" a 
routine part of the IRM in the future.  
 

 
As I  understood the more informed (or less utterly-clueless) of the 
discussions,  the liberal groups were mostly on TAGs; the conservatives (and a few 
unlucky  progressive exceptions) were on BOLOs. Note that in the 
attachments to the  House Dems' complaint, pages 1-9 refer to TAGs; only after P. 10 
is there a  reference to BOLOs, but all the listings cited say they are for 
BOLOs. 
http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/August%202010%20IRS0000002503.pdf The  same is true through 
the next few "BOLO" listings; it's really TAGs and BOLOs  without 
discrimination. 
 

 
Both  inclusions were undoubtedly mistakes, but one was quickly resolved  
through a quick look at the TAG rules; the other was not and it grew and grew 
 and grew. 
 

 
Doesn't  mean Prof. McDonald is wrong, and he'll undoubtedly explain why 
his drum still  thrums alone, but it does add another beat to the mix.  
 

 
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In a message dated 8/7/2013  1:20:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_mmcdon at gmu.edu_ (mailto:mmcdon at gmu.edu)   writes:

The IRS issued BOLOs  that used the keyword search approach to identify 
liberal groups, just as  they did conservative groups. Unless, you mean to say 
that liberal and  conservative groups were flagged as a general course of 
business, in which  case I am inclined to agree with you. I say "inclined" 
since there is an  outstanding question as to why more conservative groups were 
flagged than  liberal (something I am sure someone will say to beat their 
drum). A likely  non-nefarious explanation is that a greater number of 
conservative  organizations filed for status, which is my belief until 
contradicting  evidence comes to light.

The evidence that continues to come to light  is entirely consistent with 
my initial postings on this matter. I'm in the  fortunate position of only 
ever needing one drum to beat since I've never  had a drum taken away.

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I'm surprised that  Michael keeps thumping this drum since the Inspector 
General, and the IRS  itself, have said quite clearly that conservative groups 
were targeted. The  fact that some liberal groups were also snared, either 
in the criteria used  to scrutinize conservative groups, or in the general 
course of business,  really doesn't change that, and numerous analyses the 
numbers have verified  the impact.

But having said that, it doesn't matter. Even if Michael  were correct, 
that would change only the nature, and not the fact, of the  scandal. And that, 
again, represents the problem. 

Bradley A.  Smith
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Professor  of Law
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH  43215
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I remained silent  with the "I told you so" when a litany of media reports 
finally came out  showing how liberal organizations were flagged and treated 
the same as  conservative organizations. But this is the story that will 
not die so here  we go...

Where this logic fails is that the IRS included liberal  groups in their 
treatment such as those advocating for the Affordable Care  Act. When did the 
president or Democratic members of congress ever indicate  that they wanted 
the IRS to go after groups advocating for Obama's signature  legislative 
accomplishment? Or was that Republican members of Congress  sounding those 
alarms? Perhaps when Lerner says "everyone" she means  *everyone* and not just 
the president and his congressional allies. And if  everyone was clamoring 
for action against their political opponents, how  could any action taken by 
the IRS not be alleged as singling out a political  opponent of someone?

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To: Trevor  Potter; Jason Torchinsky; 
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Subject: Re: [EL]  Lerner in her own words - "everyone" "screaming"

And that is, to me,  what the scandal has always been about. It's not that 
there was some White  House order (although that wouldn't overly shock me). 
It's that the White  House and the President publicly and repeatedly sounded 
the "alarm," and the  need to get after these groups. It's that members of 
Congress repeatedly  wrote to the IRS to demand that it take action or 
inquire  why it  hadn't (and we know what such an inquiry means). It is that 
Democrats held  show hearings all over Capitol Hill, wherever any committee 
could with any  remote legitimacy claim some jurisdiction, to excoriate these 
groups. It is  that Democrats publicly and private pressured the SEC and the 
FCC, as well  as the IRS, to take action because the FEC would not and 
Congress was unable  to pass DISCLOSE.

Of course the IRS responds to such posturing,  inquiries, and vilification. 
That is the problem. And it continues, as Sen.  Whitehouse held a hearing 
this spring openly accusing groups of violating  the law, with no evidence; 
as Senator Levin promised to "investigate" these  conservative organizations; 
as Senator Durbin sent out mass letters  yesterday demanding to know if 
various persons and groups had in any way  funded ALEC.

There was what reformers would call "an astroturf"  campaign, headed up by 
prominent Democratic officeholders and aides, to drum  an aura of crisis 
about the political participation of their political  opponents, and then to 
demand that the huge federal bureaucracy step in to  "do something" about it, 
in light of the fact that Congress could not muster  the votes.

That is the problem, and it is exactly what we've been  warning about for 
years would be one of the many problems with campaign  finance regulation.

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore  II/Shirley M. Nault
Professor of Law
Capital University  Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
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Subject: Re: [EL]  Lerner in her own words - "everyone" "screaming"
Jason

I know you  are relying on a Breitbart piece, and it has an obvious point 
of view.  However, even that piece does not say that there was any pressure 
from the  "White House" on the IRS, and Breitbart is fair enough to note that 
there  was a great deal of press coverage and editorials in 2010 about new 
501 c4s  which appeared to be doing  nothing but huge amounts election 
activity  in 2010. As the article states:

"TIGTA's report contains a few key  redactions which conceal precisely how 
the scrutiny of Tea Party groups  began. Reading between the lines it seems 
media attention played a role.  Plans by a Tea Party group to create a new 
501(c)(4) were featured in  stories at the NY Times and NPR just a couple 
weeks after Obama's statements  about Citizens United. These stories apparently 
caught the attention of the  IRS which regularly monitors news stories to 
be aware of developing  issues."

Thus, the "everyone" wanting the IRS to "do something" in  context appears 
to refer to the quite public and common outrage reported on  in the press 
that essentially political entities were using 501 c 4 status  to avoid 
disclosure of their donors which would be required under election  law.

Trevor Potter

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Subject: [EL]  Lerner in her own words - "everyone" "screaming"

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/08/06/Lois-Lerner-Discusses-Politica
l-Pressure-on-the-IRS-in-2010

In  case anyone missed this, here's Lois Lerner in her own words from 2010  
explaining that "everyone" wanted the IRS to "do something."

This  video according to the report was taken in the fall of  2010.

Implications of this?  I thought the IRS and the White  House have 
maintained there was no pressure on the IRS.

-   Jason Torchinsky

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