Posted on 05/14/2013 11:18:06 AM PDT by drewh
Cleta Mitchell, one of Washington's most respected elections attorneys, told Newsmax she has tangible proof that high-ranking IRS officials in Washington were fully aware of the agency's campaign to target conservative groups for heightened scrutiny, despite their denials.
And she thinks the president knew about the practice too. If proven, she said, it could be an impeachable offense.
Mitchell, in an interview with Newsmax TV on Tuesday, said she was told by a Cincinnati IRS agent that applications by two of her conservative clients were being processed by — and would ultimately be approved or denied — in Washington.
She said she also is aware of nearly 100 other conservative groups that were being targeted by Washington.
"There were nearly 100 groups across the country that got the very egregious set of letters from the IRS that were almost identical and they came from offices all over the country so I know of at least 85 to 90, maybe more, organizations," said Mitchell, who represents six groups which say they have been targeted, including the King Street Patriots and True the Vote.
"If they had the name "tea party" or they had the word "patriots" or if their mission was smaller government or study the Constitution, believe it or not, that would cause the IRS to say, 'Oh we better investigate these groups.'"
In the case of one such client, she and her family subsequently became targets for audits to their personal and business tax returns, and were even visited by three different government agencies. She also knows of other groups who had surprise visits from the FBI after they applied for IRS status.
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brilliant. Like the teleprompter head photo.
A lawyer’s hunch based on logic is not tangible proof.
LOL! Was just telling my folks about that pic while watching the presser.
Holy crap ping..read it all
Impeachment is possible in the House.
Conviction and removal in a Dem led Senate will only occur when the politicians fear the loss of their cushy jobs when the people are sufficiently outraged and demand action.
“Could be an impeachable offense”
IT IS A DAMN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE! Obama is more corrupt than Johnson, and I’m not talking LBJ.
AS I have been posting for about ten days, the lesson on conviction and removal that we learned did not negate the earlier lesson: When the criminality becomes obvious, the criminality and treachery done elsewhere becomes easier to expose and if there are forums like ours that keep this stuff from falling off the radar a feeding frenzy will result.
That feeding frenzy is a natural media event we can and must promote to the point that the voters that mistakenly bought this guy’s story for our nation’s future become sick of him and vomit him up — removed or not, they won’t want a Marxist like him again.
I really think there is a possibility that Chief of Staff gave the stand down order on Benghazi and that may be the shoe that drops this week.
Stands to reason he might know about the IRS, too.
Sent this to Drudge.
Limbaugh is reporting what I read last night - a liberal press service - funded by Geo Soros in part - did receive information from the IRS of the information they illegally targeted.
another victim was on Fox and had a letter from an IRS official in Washington.
Thus emphasizing the scope and seriousness of the charge........
Your use of "Huge and Serious" is inappropriate here as it is not in line with typical FR lore.
:o)
...with great justice...
<8^)
Hoping Cinncinnatti has some good whistle blowers
And a whole lot of shredding going on
ProPublica got the leaks from the IR
obama will sneak out and fly to kenya... because kenya does not have an extradition treaty with the US!!!
Hey... I can dream can’t I? :-)
LLS
Yep!
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