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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! The IRS 1st Amendment police by Joseph Farrah ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com It has been nearly six years since the Internal Revenue Service came after me for exercising my First Amendment rights, but the paper trail on the case continues to grow. Only last week, the U.S. Justice Department turned over to my attorneys at Judicial Watch some 500 pages of documents it has collected on the IRS's audit of my non-profit group, the Western Journalism Center, in 1996 – a nine-month ordeal that ended with a clean bill of health and an extension of the group's non-profit status. The IRS audited the group in direct response to a letter it received from Bill Clinton requesting an investigation of our non-profit status when we began investigating various Clinton administration scandals. From the moment the audit began, the agent in charge of the investigation warned that it was "a political case" and that the decision about our fate would be "made at the national level." A Treasury Department investigation later found that the audit was triggered by the letter from the White House. For the last five years, Judicial Watch has been helping me pursue justice through civil actions. The response of the government has been to release batches of documents to us ever-so slowly over a period of years. Here's the way it works with our federal government: The IRS turns over a few documents, claiming that's the entirety of the file. Ridiculous, we say. The file doesn't even include the IRS's previous correspondence with me. How can it possibly be complete? Then the Treasury Department turns over some documents, including some IRS papers that weren't turned over by this agency of the department. Now the Justice Department is turning over documents – six years later – gathered by the IRS way back when and never turned over despite our filing several lawsuits to get them. That's the process. It's frustrating. It's time-consuming. It's expensive. And the bureaucrats' entire objective is to wear you down – hope you get tired of waiting and refiling and run out of money and energy at some point. Of course, when you're dealing with Joseph Farah and Larry Klayman, that strategy doesn't work. Now, let's talk about the content of the latest document drop. Mostly it's a collection of letters to and from congressional offices in response to the case. Congressional constituents would write their senators and representatives about the high-profile case, and the elected officials would, in turn, write to the IRS for explanations. It's quite an enlightening collection – with a few surprises among the redacted pages. A wide variety of members of Congress took the time to get explanations of the case from the IRS. That means many of you wrote letters to your senators and representatives. And for that I am truly appreciative. For instance, here are some of the members of Congress who questioned the IRS's actions in the case: Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va.; Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.; Rep. John Larson, D-Conn.; Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb.; Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan.; Sen, Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. It also turns out that Bill Clinton was not the only official who asked the IRS to poke around in WJC's affairs. Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., was another. And there is some sketchy evidence that the IRS tried to enlist Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., in the case in some mysterious way. And that's about all this investigative reporter could glean from the latest release of "sanitized" documents from the government. No doubt there will be more a year from now, or two years from now, as we continue to pursue justice. We think this remains an important case – as important today as it was during the Clinton years. Somebody's ox will always be gored by political apparatchiks who abuse government authority. So, we'll keep fighting the good fight. We're not going away. And, unfortunately, neither are the IRS and the bloated federal bureaucracy. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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