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Major Hogwash

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24. ProPublica is not a real journalistic entity, so they didn't have the right to that information.

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 10:04 AM

Jul 2013

Besides that bit of information, ProPublica has published information that was given to them before that was not supposed to be made public.

In December 2012 and January 2013, ProPublica published and reported on confidential pending applications for groups requesting tax-exempt status. After it became known that the Cincinnati office of the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, in May 2013 ProPublica clarified that it obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, writing, "In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public." ProPublica reported on six of them, after deeming information within those applications to be newsworthy.

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WTF??? Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified [View all] unhappycamper Jul 2013 OP

we have always been at war with eastasia tularetom Jul 2013 #1

+1000 Mnemosyne Jul 2013 #2

No It's Anywhere "Over There" grilled onions Jul 2013 #3

You know a secret war is always better than a official war. obxhead Jul 2013 #4

Of course the secret war is only a secret to us... truebluegreen Jul 2013 #11

Oh, no, no. Not so. Jackpine Radical Jul 2013 #13

Yep. Dog Forbid somebody prints it and they find out. truebluegreen Jul 2013 #14

We're at war with them, those, not us, over there, somewhere, everywhere... Solly Mack Jul 2013 #5

Makes it easy to charge people with aiding the enemy Orrex Jul 2013 #6

And releasing the list of the folks we are at war with..... blackspade Jul 2013 #7

I suspect because disclosure would cause public outrage. nt NorthCarolina Jul 2013 #8

Because the Citizen of the United States of America are near the top of that secret list. RC Jul 2013 #15

Your probably right. blackspade Jul 2013 #20

how has this changed in the past 12 years pasto76 Jul 2013 #9

That same worn out memo..... blackspade Jul 2013 #21

I 'm thinking... westerebus Jul 2013 #10

For our security! lolz What a sickening degeneration into corporate-militarism for profits.,. Civilization2 Jul 2013 #12

Pogo said it best. Downwinder Jul 2013 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author mother earth Jul 2013 #17

Not to mention all the behind the scenes situations in central and southern Africa... Ford_Prefect Jul 2013 #18

Why ctsnowman Jul 2013 #19

When was war declared? I didn't think they did that anymore, not since the Vietnam "conflict". nt valerief Jul 2013 #22

Vietnam was never a declared "War" Lugal Zaggesi Jul 2013 #23

ProPublica is not a real journalistic entity, so they didn't have the right to that information. Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #24