Uncle Sam Sucker Punched By Lois Lerner

On February 28, 1993, 76 agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) arrived at the Branch Davidian compound just outside Waco, Texas. By the time they left on April 19th, more than six dozen men, women and children (including several infants) were dead; many burned alive in an inferno that destroyed the compound during the federal government’s final, massive assault on the flimsy structure. Despite then-Attorney General Janet Reno publicly accepting “responsibility” for the catastrophe, no agent or employee of the federal government was ever held accountable. I know; I participated in the lengthy 1995 congressional oversight hearings in which we attempted to hold the feds accountable.

In December 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for committing perjury and obstruction of justice. Barely two months later, in a raw display of partisan voting, the Senate permitted Clinton to remain in office and complete his second term; he left office on January 20, 2001 to great fanfare.

In the aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist attacks -- despite clear shortcomings in the government’s handling of intelligence and security measures prior to the attacks – not a single federal agency or high official stepped forward and admitted mistakes. The refrain most often heard in testimony before the Congress following the attacks was, “we need more money” and “we need more authority;” not, “we had plenty of money already and more than adequate powers, but mistakes were made and we will do much better from now on.” Ultimately, those agencies (and new ones) were given massive sums of money and awesome expanded powers; and no accountability was forthcoming.

In fact, kudos were the order of the day. Shortly after his retirement as CIA director in 2004, after seven years on the job, George Tenet was presented the Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush, our country’s highest honor awarded for non-military service.

But wait, one might ask, what about Lois Lerner? Lerner was the IRS official responsible for the scandalous – if not criminal – targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by the IRS. Did she not resign within the past week, and does this not illustrate that Uncle Sam is finally holding its employees accountable if they engage in wrongdoing? Is not Lerner – who brazenly refused to answer questions, put to her by the Congress about her shenanigans while at IRS – being punished for her misdeeds? Hardly.

Lerner has been on leave, drawing her full, hefty federal salary and benefits for lo these many months while others at the IRS continue to obfuscate. And now, she is allowed to retire with a generous federal pension; paid for by the American taxpayers, of course. The message thus transmitted to other federal employees who might in the future consider improperly injecting politics into their official duties is: You may have to suffer a degree of public humiliation, but in the end, you’ll be paid everything due you and no adverse action will befall you. Just clam up, wait out the storm, and things will be fine.

Had Lerner embezzled IRS funds, or committed other manner of financial crimes while in office, she might very well right now be facing federal indictment. In many respects, however, what Lerner did was even more insidious than stealing money. She stole liberty. By her actions, she denied to numerous lawful organizations, their employees, and potential donors their constitutionally guaranteed rights to political association and redress, and to have the laws of the land applied fairly and equally to them. And for this, Lois Lerner escapes unscathed. Who will recompense those victims for the harm done them?

Ironically, the federal government is a victim in all this. As an institution, our government relies on the citizens’ perception that it operates fairly and transparency in upholding the laws of the land. When that credibility is eroded – as it assuredly has been in recent months – so too is the willingness of citizens to respect and obey the laws of the land. Citizens fairly will ask – as did many when former President Clinton escaped punishment in the Senate – “Why should we obey the law when the government and our leaders do not have to?”

Lerner brazenly refused to answer Congressional questions despite her misdeeds and possible malfeasance as an IRS govt employee---Lerner was then placed on leave w/ hefty federal salary and benefits (while others at the IRS continue to obfuscate the targeting issue). Lerner will now retire with a generous federal pension......paid for by the American taxpayers, of course.

Now just wait a sec----we need to know what Lerner knows about (1) enabling obama's Kenyan half-brother to establish a tax-exempt foundation in the US; (2) whether Lerner got orders from Obama, and, (3) whether Lerner is culpable for aiding and abetting possible federal money laundering to finance the Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist activities. Read on.

The tax-free Barack H. Obama foundation, fast-tracked by Lois Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status, is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Falsely give a Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......(which it never applied for b/c Obama insured that the federal money would roll in).

NEWS FLASH OBAMA GIVES 50 MILLION DOLLARS IN
(cough) FOREIGN AID TO KENYA. O'S KENYAN HALF-BROTHER
CASHES IN?---VIA THE TAX-EXEMPT DO-GOOD "OBAMA FOUNDATION"?

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ALL MUSLIM ALL THE TIME The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the Muslim half-brother of Barack Obama.

The foundation’s (cough) mission statement is “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”

(same old sap-happy do-gooder schtick: whining about helping
their fellow-man---and hoping to make a buck on it)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the tax-exempt foundation built a Muslim madrassa in Kenya and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.

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Obama's half-brother Malik, in Muslim dress, holds up photo of Obama
in Muslim dress, taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 yo.

Taxpayers demand that tax-exempt Obama Foundation records be released--we need to know if any of our tax dollars went directly or indirectly to finance the savage al-Sharab Muslim terrorist attack in Kenya. NOTE: some of the terrorists were Americans.

L/E needs to examine the Foundation's bank accounts used to pay for its activities.

The "Bank Secrecy Act" was passed to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting criminal enterprises, money laundering, tax evasion or other unlawful activities. Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity that might be indicative of tax fraud, govt fraud. money laundering, embezzlement, and other financial crimes.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer of tax-exempt funds. Foundation monies may pay for personal and private expenses, credit cards, real estate subsidies, campaign expenses, travel, and vehicle purchases. <><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into foundation accounts was being used for legitimate allowable purposes.

The scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for their own use.

<><> L/E is directed to get ahold of: (1) copies of foundation checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records. L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize foundation bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC other accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures---like campaigns.

Tax fraud can also be facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from foundation accounts into personal and campaign accounts. <><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support campaign activities and luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets for wives and mistresses.

Taxpayers demand the Bank Secrecy Act be used to prosecute foundation fraud pronto.

<><> L/E is directed to get ahold of: (1) copies of Clinton Foundations' assorted checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records. L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real /estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize the Foundation's assorted bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

And study those tax returns with a fine-tooth comb.

What does Lerner know about this?

ANN COULTER REPORTED Among the many left-wing groups with tax-exempt status are:

— ACORN (now renamed as other organizations, but all still tax-exempt), “community organizers” who engage in profanity-laced protests at private homes, dump garbage in front of public buildings and disrupt bankers’ dinners in order to get more people on welfare in order to destroy the capitalist system and incite revolution;

— Occupy Wall Street, which — in its first month alone — was responsible for more than a dozen sexual assaults; at least half a dozen deaths by overdose, suicide or murder; and millions of dollars in property damage;

— Media Matters for America, a media “watchdog” group that has never noticed one iota of pro-Obama bias in the media;

— Moveon.org, which ran ads comparing Bush to Hitler under its 501(c)(4) arm;

— The Center for American Progress, an auxiliary of the Democratic National Committee funded by George Soros and staffed by former Clinton and Obama aides to promote the Democratic agenda;

— The Tides Foundation, which funnels money to communist and terrorist-supporting organizations;

— The Ford Foundation, which has never found a criminal law that isn’t “racist.”

These groups are regarded by the IRS as nonpartisan community groups, merely educational, while dozens of patriotic, constitutional, Christian or tea party groups are still waiting for their tax exemptions.

That’s to say nothing of Planned Parenthood, PBS and innumerable other Democratic front-groups that not only have tax exemptions, but get direct funding from the government.

By contrast, the conservative groups being raked over the coals by the IRS actually were nonpartisan. The tea party forced sitting Republican senators off the ticket in Alaska and Indiana, and toppled “establishment” Republicans in Utah, Delaware, Nevada, Florida and Texas.

Far from being a secretly pro-Republican group, the tea party has been a nightmare for Republicans. Show me one instance where the Center for American Progress was more of a problem for Democrats than Republicans. It is obviously in the interest of the left to show us liberal groups also harassed by the IRS, so it’s striking that they haven’t been able to produce one yet.

Instead, they hearken back to the Bush years to claim that the IRS once audited the NAACP, which is treated as ipso facto political harassment.

In the 1990s, the NAACP used tax-exempt contributions to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars of hush money to the mistress of then-executive director Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — as detailed in enraged columns by Carl Rowan at the time. Find a tea party organization that’s done that, and we’ll understand the IRS conducting a three-year proctology exam on the group.

Second, the Bush-era audit of the NAACP was prompted by a blindingly partisan speech given by NAACP chairman Julian Bond at an organization meeting in Philadelphia in July 2004. Bond attacked a slew of elected Republicans by name, denouncing the entire party as one whose “idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side.”

As a 501(c)(3) group, the NAACP is prohibited from supporting or opposing any candidate for elective office.

The NAACP responded to the IRS’ letter by screaming from the rooftops that it was political payback. Consequently, Bush’s IRS commissioner requested that Treasury’s inspector general investigate the IRS’ tax-exempt unit for political bias.

The IG’s report found no politics in the NAACP audit and — to the contrary — that more “pro-Republican” groups (18) than “pro-Democratic” groups (12) had been audited. Nonetheless, the NAACP simply refused to cooperate with the IRS.

Two years later, the IRS simply issued a letter clearing the group. Today, the NAACP openly engages in partisan activity, such as a current weeks-long protest of Republican legislators in North Carolina.

Finally, a tip to the Democrats trying to defend the IRS: As a devoted true-crime TV viewer, I can tell you that when you’re caught red-handed, it’s never a good defense to say, “Why would I be so stupid to kill my wife right after taking out a huge life insurance policy on her?”

You were that stupid and you got caught.

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