CORRUPTION MORE THAN 'SMIDGEN'
Justice Dept. Implicated in IRS
Targeting, Plot to JAIL Conservatives!
Targeting, Plot to JAIL Conservatives!
Another Democrat U.S. Rep. Caught in the
Net of Corruption, Conspiracy
Net of Corruption, Conspiracy
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ACTION ALERT: Remember when Barack Obama – with the so-called
Department of Justice investigation still "ongoing" (HA!) – used his
omniscience in the Super Bowl Sunday interview with Fox News' Bill
O'Reilly to declare there was "not a smidgen" of corruption in the IRS targeting of conservatives, including us?
Those days are OVER.
Our
friends at Judicial Watch obtained a series of emails from ex-IRS
official Lois Lerner, who twice plead the FIFTH, revealing she was in
direct contact with Obama's Eric Holder Department of (In)Justice about
PROSECUTING THE CONSERVATIVES SHE AND OTHERS AT THE IRS WERE TARGETING!
"These
new emails show that the day before she broke the news of the IRS
scandal, Lois Lerner was talking to a top Obama Justice Department
official about whether the DOJ could prosecute the very same
organizations that the IRS had already improperly targeted," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
"No wonder we had to sue in federal court to get these documents," he said.With the Holder Department of Justice now implicated, it is plainly evident that political grandstanding by the GOP with lawsuit after lawsuit levied at the Obama administration is all for show, and NOT FOR RESULTS.
Judicial
Watch said the batch of internal IRS documents it obtained through a
Freedom of Information Act request show Lerner "communicated with the
Department of Justice about whether it was possible to criminally
prosecute certain tax-exempt entities."
An
email from Lerner to Nikole C. Flax, then-chief of staff to acting IRS
Commissioner Steven T. Miller discusses focusing on the prosecution of
nonprofits:
"I got a call today from Richard
Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ … He wanted to know who
at IRS the DOJ folk s [sic] could talk to about Sen. Whitehouse idea at
the hearing that DOJ could piece together false statement cases
about applicants who 'lied' on their 1024s – saying they weren't
planning on doing political activity, and then turning around and making
large visible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling like it needs to
respond, but want to talk to the right folks at IRS to see whether there
are impediments from our side and what, if any damage this might do to
IRS programs," Lerner wrote. "I told him that sounded like we might need
several folks from IRS."
Flax responded: "I think we should do it – also need to include CI [Criminal Investigation Division], which we can help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to FEC. Does it make sense to consider including them in this or keep it separate?" [Emphasis added.] |
Judicial Watch explained in that
hearing Lerner references above, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had
asked why the IRS and DOJ "have not prosecuted 501(c)(4) groups that
have seemingly made false statements about their political activities."
In an email to IRS staff, Lerner responded:
"As I mentioned yesterday –
there are several groups of folks from the FEC world that are pushing
tax fraud prosecution for c4s who report they are not conducting
political activity when they are (or these folks think they are). One is
my ex-boss Larry Noble (former General Counsel at the FEC), who is now
president of Americans for Campaign Reform. This is their latest push to
shut these down. One IRS prosecution would make an impact and they
wouldn't feel so comfortable doing the stuff.
"So, don't be fooled about how this is being articulated – it is ALL about 501(c)(4) orgs and political activity," she wrote.
Of course, the "political activity" Lerner wants criminalized
is PERFECTLY LEGAL and PART OF THE CHARTERED ACTIVITIES OF NON-PROFIT
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS!THAT is why they are "doing the stuff" she and her fellow Obama storm troopers don't like! In another email, Lerner admitted that such prosecutions were not allowed:
"Whether there was a false statement or fraud regarding an [sic] description of an alleged political expenditure that doesn't say vote for or vote against is not realistic under current law. Everyone is looking for a magic bullet or scapegoat – there isn't one. The law in this area is just hard," she wrote.
For
good reason. It is 'just hard' to prevent totalitarians like Obama's
IRS apparatchiks from precisely this kind of abuse of citizens under
color of authority!
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