Good old Lois Lerner scandal who's email records are lost on a conveniently ruined hard drive.
Posted on 12/01/2022 5:33:53 PM PST by MtnClimber
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., called for revoking a tax exemption for a conservative group for not masking up and socially distancing during the pandemic, insisted on a slew of investigations of other conservative groups, and pressed for the Internal Revenue Service to expand its reach.
A total of 176 pages of correspondence from and to Whitehouse was obtained from the IRS by the conservative watchdog group American Accountability Foundation through the Freedom of Information Act and shared with The Daily Signal.
“It’s abundantly clear that [Whitehouse] is trying to take the 87,000 new IRS agents and put them to work investigating me and my friends because he doesn’t like their politics,” Tom Jones, president and founder of the American Accountability Foundation, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday.
The letters span from Jan. 19, 2021, the day before President Joe Biden took office, into May 2022.
‘Lois Lerner on Steroids’ Whitehouse long has been a critic of conservative, nonprofit organizations and uses an expansive definition of “dark money” groups, broadly defined as tax-exempt organizations that don’t disclose donors.
The Supreme Court, in 1958 and 2021 cases, has struck down compelled donor disclosure requirements at the state level.
The Rhode Island Democrat, first elected in 2006, has made “dark money” a central point of Senate floor speeches and often uses up his entire five-minute question period to make related speeches during hearings of the Senate’s Judiciary and Finance committees.
“It’s Lois Lerner on steroids,” Jones said of what’s in the Whitehouse correspondence, referring to the Internal Revenue Service official in the middle of the Obama-era IRS scandal over the targeting of tea party groups.
“The Lois Lerner stuff was a mid-level bureaucrat abusing [her] power to investigate conservative groups,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Why is this not surprising?
What was the IRS response? And don’t simply take their word for it.
Somehow, I hadn’t really noticed the odious Whitehouse until the Kavanaugh hearings. He’s really ridiculous. And one of left’s nastiest dudes, and that’s saying something.
I hope the groups sue this POS for conspiracy to deprive them of their constitutional rights.
Rats cheat. Nothing new. Question is: when will they go to jail for it?
DNC = Depraved Nexus of Corruption
I thought we rid ourselves of these kinds of pompous Bill of Attainder idiots when we kicked out George III back in 1776!
Apparently we missed one.
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Ever heard Whitehorse speak? He’s Patrick Star level stupid.
Stinking communist bastards continue to run roughshod over the servile & indolent Aamerican sheeple...
There are no limits to tyranny...
There is no end in sight!
Supposedly Whitehouse and his wife are members of a white only beach club in Newport. I think they are some of the biggest shareholders in the club. He says his family has been in the club for generations. I don’t think it’s 100% white. There are a few ethnic folks there. Whether they are members or guests, I’m not sure.
Cuz it’s Sheldon Whitehouse?
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