Why won't the IRS identify, and fire, the person who leaked NOM's tax returns?

Not a smidgen of corruption, eh? So who leaked confidential tax information to a bunch of far-left homofascists?

But what they won't do is identify who leaked the information.

Instead, they're circling the wagons.

If only the IRS would take the matter seriously. Tapping the taxpayers for a measly $50,000 fine isn't serious. Firing the person responsible, prosecuting that person, and making him personally responsible for paying the fine? That's serious. Alas, the IRS has no plans to do that.

NOM said that an investigation revealed that its 2008 tax return and list of major donors was released to Matthew Meisel, a gay activist in Boston, MA. Email correspondence from Meisel revealed that he told a colleague that he had "a conduit" to obtain NOM's confidential information. While testifying under oath in a deposition in the litigation, Meisel invoked the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination and refused to disclose the identity of his conduit. Documents obtained during the litigation prove that Meisel then provided NOM's tax data to the Human Rights Campaign (whose president was a national Co-Chair of the Obama Reelection Campaign). The information was also published by the Huffington Post.

So someone in the IRS colluded with the Obama presidential campaign to illegally disclose confidential tax information. And that person still works at the IRS. Where he or she presumably continues to flout the law with impunity.

Don't hold your breath waiting for Eric Holder's Justice Department to open an investigation. Because Mr. Meisel's "conduit" serves Holder's (and Barack Obama's) interests. And that my friends is way more than a smidgen of corruption.

Posted at 11:03 by Chris Wysocki   [/democrats]   Comments | Perm Link |
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