Dr. Eowyn posted: "While it is proper for the federal government to use
the judicial system to go after tax cheats, it is ENTIRELY improper for the
government to SELECTIVELY go after suspected tax cheats on a partisan
basis. That is what Obama and his IRS are doing, whic" Respond to this
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Obama’s IRS not only
targets, but wanted to imprison
conservatives<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/04/18/obamas-irs-not-only-targets-but-wanted-to-imprison-conservatives/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>
While it is proper for the federal government to use the judicial system to
go after tax cheats, it is ENTIRELY improper for the government to
SELECTIVELY go after suspected tax cheats on a partisan basis.
That is what Obama and his IRS are doing, which the nonpartisan citizen
watchdog group Judicial Watch has discovered from emails of former IRS
official Lois Lerner, but only after filing repeated Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuits.
Those emails also show that:
- Lois Lerner knew full well the IRS was -- and still is -- targeting
conservative groups, esp. Tea Party groups, for extra scrutiny.
- Lerner knew full well that singling out conservative groups for
prosecution is not lawful or in her euphemistic words, "not realistic under
current law."
- Lerner was scapegoating when she blamed the targeting of conservative
groups on "low level" IRS workers in Cincinnati.
- Not only is the IRS complicit, Eric Holder's Department of (in)Justice
is also complicit, because Lerner was plotting with DOJ on how to prosecute
conservative groups for alleged tax violation.
*~Eowyn*
[image: Eye of Obama]*JW Obtains IRS Documents Showing Lerner in Contact
With DOJ about Potential Prosecution of Tax-Exempt
Groups*<http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-obtains-irs-documents-showing-lerner-contact-doj-potential-prosecution-tax-exempt-groups/>
APRIL 16, 2014
*May 9, 2013, email reveals IRS plans to meet with Department of Justice
over whether to prosecute groups that “lied” about plans for political
activity *
(*Washington, DC*) – Judicial Watch today released a new batch of internal
IRS
documents<http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JW_IRS_Docs.zip>revealing
that *former
IRS official Lois Lerner communicated with the Department of Justice (DOJ)
about whether it was possible to criminally prosecute certain tax-exempt
entities.* The documents were obtained as a result of an October 2013
Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/judicial-watch-v-irs-lawsuit/>filed
against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the agency refused
to respond to four FOIA requests dating back to May 2013.
[image: Lois
Lerner]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/lois-lerner.jpg>
Lois Lerner
The newly released IRS documents contain* an email exchange between Lerner
and Nikole C. Flax, then-Chief of Staff to then-Acting IRS Commissioner
Steven T. Miller discussing plans to work with the DOJ to prosecute
nonprofit groups that “lied” (Lerner’s quotation marks) about political
activities.* The exchange includes the following:
- May 8, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-00105/>:
Lerner to Flax
*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.*
*I told him that sounded like we might need several folks from IRS…*
- May 9, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-00105/>:
Flax to Lerner
*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?*
Lerner then “handed
off<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-000118/>”
scheduling the issue to Senior Technical Adviser, Attorney Nancy Marks, who
was then supposed to set up the meeting with the DOJ. Lerner also decided
that it would be DOJ’s decision as to whether representatives from the
Federal Election Commission would attend.
Democratic Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had held a
hearing<http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/senate-committee-examines-enforcement-of-campaign-finance-laws>on
April 9 during which, “in questioning the witnesses from DOJ and IRS,
Whitehouse asked why they have not prosecuted 501(c)(4) groups that have
seemingly made false statements about their political activities.” Lerner
described the impetus for this hearing in a March 27, 2013,
email<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-000248/>to
top IRS staff:
*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*
But in an
email<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-000246/>sent
a few minutes earlier, *Lerner
acknowledged prosecutions would evidently be at odds with the law*:
*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.*
The documents also include email exchanges showing that before Lerner’s May
10, 2013, speech to the American Bar Association blaming “low-level”
employees in Cincinnati for targeting tax-exempt
organizations<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/10/Cincinnati-IRS-Office-Primarily-Responsible-for-Handling-Tax-Exempt-Determinations>,
the IRS Exempt Organizations division was scrambling to defuse the emerging
targeting scandal:
- May 1, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-00083/>:
After receiving an email from an assistant showing that 501(c)(4)
applications had increased from 1591 in 2010 to 3398 in 2012 , Lerner wrote
back, “Looks to me like 2010-2012 doubled too. Oh well – thanks.”
- May 2, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-00086/>:
Discussing an upcoming conference call with approximately 100 congressional
staffers on May 22, Lerner cautions aides, “Need to be careful not to
mention sequester/furlough unless asked although can allude to budget and
resources restraints.”
- May 2, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-00086/>:
In response to an email reminding her about the upcoming conference call
with congressional staffers, Lerner responded, “Arrgh – I just saw it.
Sharon [White] could skate, but Cindy [Thomas] is the person who could
answer that stuff. We need to give them some type of language in the event
that type of question comes up” [apparently in reference to earlier email
referencing “sensitive issues”].
The new documents obtained by Judicial Watch also include emails exchanged
after Lerner’s May 10 ABA speech:
- May 10, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-000154/>:
In an email to an aide responding to a request for information from
a *Washington
Post *reporter, *Lerner admits that she “can’t confirm that there was
anyone on the other side of the political spectrum” who had been targeted
by the IRS.* She then adds that “The one with the names used were only
know [sic] because they have been very loud in the press.”
- May 10, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-000151/>:
*An email from former Cincinnati program manager Cindy Thomas excoriates
Lerner for her comments blaming **“low-level” employees in its
Cincinnati office for targeting tax-exempt organizations that had “Tea
Party” or “Patriots” in their names during the 2012
election*.<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/10/Cincinnati-IRS-Office-Primarily-Responsible-for-Handling-Tax-Exempt-Determinations>Highlighting
the words “low-level workers” in bold-face type each of the
seven times she used it in short, pungent email, Thomas asked, “How am I
supposed to keep the *low-level workers *motivated when the public
believes they are nothing more than *low-level workers* and now will
have no respect for how they are working cases?” Lerner’s response nearly
an hour later was a terse, “I will be back shortly and give you a call.”
- May 15, 2013<http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw1559-000181/>:
*In an email from an aide to Lerner, the aide specifically mentions “Tea
Party Organizations, the “Tea Party movement,” and “Tea Party Patriots” as
organizations targeted by the IRS.*
The Judicial Watch FOIA requests came on the heels of an explosive May 14,
2013, Treasury Inspector General
report<http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf>revealing
that *the
IRS had singled out groups with conservative-sounding terms such as
“patriot” and “Tea Party” in their titles when applying for tax-exempt
status. *The IG probe determined that “Early in Calendar Year 2010, the IRS
began using inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for
tax-exempt status to (e.g., lists of past and future donors).” According to
the report, the illegal IRS reviews continued for more than 18 months and
“delayed processing of targeted groups’ applications” preparing for the
2012 presidential election.
Lerner, who headed the IRS division that handles applications for
tax-exempt status, refused to testify at a May 2013 hearing before Rep.
Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) House Oversight Committee, demanding immunity
concerning her role in the targeting scandal.* Lerner retired from the IRS
with full benefits on September 23 after an internal investigation found
she was guilty of “neglect of duties” and was going to call for her ouster*,
according to news
reports.<http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5452:lois-lerner-irs-official-at-heart-of-tea-party-targeting-scandal-retires&catid=110:national&Itemid=293>On
April 9, 2014, the Ways and Means Committee referred Lois Lerner to
the
DOJ for criminal
prosecution<http://waysandmeans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=375999>.
On April 10, 2014, the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Lerner
in contempt
of
Congress<http://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-approves-lois-lerner-contempt-congress-resolution/>
.
“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. “*The IRS emails show Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is now
implicated and conflicted in the IRS scandal. * No wonder we had to sue in
federal court to get these documents.”
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>* | April 18,
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