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Just out of the blue that sure enough we finally have our c oh 4 status after four years of being harassed by the irs. >> tell me about the four years. what was it like? >> unbelievable. im an american citizen. a dad from gilbert, arizona. started a tea party organization. wanted to help my country and didnt know about the legal ramifications of filing for c-4. we wont out, did the necessary paperwork. did everything we are supposed to do. we had several rounds of letters we received and our att...

My head snapped back with such force that it shattered my c-3/c-4 vertebrae. i was completely awake, completely conscious, and paralyzed. >> this lead to a potential moment. >> what are you hoping? >> the first prototype of like a robotic vest. and that, you know, we could use in whole idea of linking brains to get a young brazilian to open the world cup by giving the kickoff of the competition. >> to imagine a teenage girl wheel herself onto the field, gt up and then run, thats fantastic. >> so...

>> no. >> did you work for the cia? >> were not going to get into that. >> in these pages he said he spent his summer weekends in those woods learning how to handle plastic explosives, hand grenades and something even more chilling. so ill do the talking part and you can answer what part of it you want. you write how you fired rifles, submachine guns, handled assault weapons, grenade launchers, c-4, learned unarmed combat techniques through this training group over weekends. is it true or is it ...

>> no. >> did you work for the cia? >> were not going to get into that. >> in these pages he said he spent his summer weekends in those woods learning how to handle plastic explosives, hand grenades and something even more chilling. so ill do the talking part and you can answer what part of it you want. you write how you fired rifles, submachine guns, handled assault weapons, grenade launchers, c-4, learned unarmed combat techniques through this training group over weekends. is it true or is it ...

My next guest says still waiting. not one of the 41 targeted groups hes representing so much as contacted by the fbi. joining us with the american center for law and justice. im wondering if there is an investigation going on? >> well, its interesting, neil, because at this point we have 41 clients, we have c-3, c-4 groups that were eventually approved after multiyear waits, groups that have still not been approved, those we have one that applied december of 2009 that still has not been approved...

Court, chipped away, chipped away in the federal election arena. the supreme court dealt a huge blow. overturning a 100-year old president that said basically corporations could give directly to political campaigns. everyone is up in arms because they dont like it. and they cant do anything about it. they want the irs to fix the problem. the irs laws are not set up to fix the problem. they can do straight political activity. they can go out and pay for an ad that says vote for joe blow. thats so...

Court, chipped away, chipped away in the federal election arena. the supreme court dealt a huge blow. overturning a 100-year old president that said basically corporations could give directly to political campaigns. everyone is up in arms because they dont like it. and they cant do anything about it. they want the irs to fix the problem. the irs laws are not set up to fix the problem. they can do straight political activity. they can go out and pay for an ad that for joe blow. thats something th...

So were wondering if this has been something thats been going on for quite some time. is this just business as usual there at the i.r.s.? lets take a listen. >> whats really weird is that you dont have to get i.r.s. permission to be a c-4. the i.r.s. bihar rasing -- the i.r.s. bihar rasing these groups will make it so the groups cant get status at all. the i.r.s. in a sense is shooting itself in the foot. why is it doing it? as near as anybody can tell, because of a general hostility toward poli...

Still doing it. when there is a tea party inquiry, when there is a question about a tea party application on these 501-c-4s, they go to what is called the political advocacy section. sounds like something out of 1984 in the movie "brazil." there is sworn testimony they dont know what to do, so they say we better send it to the political advocacy section because there is a presumption that the tea party groups are doing something wrong. so after all these denials and after all these statements by...

Permission to be a c-4. the irs by harassing these groups is just making it more likely in the future, the groups wont apply for irs status at all. they will just stop operating and then you dont know at all what they are doing. so the irs in a sense is shooting itself in the foot. why? because of a general hostility toward political activity by conservative groups and also i think by new groups and outside groups, groups that havent been players in the field already. >> it is very difficult to ...