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IRS Scandal Deepens as Leaks Identified
Breitbart ^ | 31 Oct 2013 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 11/01/2013 5:28:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

The watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Thursday that it had obtained emails showing that former IRS official Lois Lerner gave protected information to the Federal Elections Commission.

Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee said it had identified the IRS agent who leaked National Organization for Marriage donors to gay rights activists.

Judicial Watch obtained the emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Aug. 9. They purport to show Lerner, who led the IRS Exempt Organizations division, promising full cooperation with an FEC attorney who was seeking information about the tax-exempt applications of two conservative groups, the American Future Fund (AFF) and the American Issues Project (AIP), as well as AIP's predecessor groups.

Lerner then sent "detailed, confidential information about the organizations" to the FEC, according to Judicial Watch, including tax returns and requests for exempt recognition forms

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; fec; informant; irs; lerner; obama
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“What makes the situation even worse is that the law, intended to protect taxpayers, is being used as a shield for those that perpetrate this wrongdoing," House Ways and Means Committee chair Dave Camp (R-MI) told Johnson.

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OK now there is evidence of inter agency cooperation in this abuse of Fed Gov Power. How many Departments will eventually be shown to be involved. How high up the food chain does this go? We all know where the "direction" came from.

Is the rule of law totally gone?

1 posted on 11/01/2013 5:28:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

When you have lawbreakers in charge, laws don’t seem to matter.


2 posted on 11/01/2013 5:31:58 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Agree.

Obozo is an evil little vermin.

And he fully intends to destroy the U.S.


3 posted on 11/01/2013 5:33:42 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

> Is the rule of law totally gone?

Has been for quite some time, now.

It will probably require a military coup d’etat to have any chance of restoring the rule of law. But then, a coup d’etat is a lawless act in itself.

Don’t know where we go from here. Don’t know how to get back to where we were from where we are.


4 posted on 11/01/2013 5:33:51 AM PDT by Westbrook ()Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Texas Fossil
Just have the Emperor rewrite the law. Problem solved.
5 posted on 11/01/2013 5:34:20 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: The_Victor

All Democracies devolve into Dictatorship?

Guess we shall see.

God protect the Republic, God Bless the United States of America.


6 posted on 11/01/2013 5:35:37 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil
Is the rule of law totally gone?

Almost 5 years to the day.
7 posted on 11/01/2013 5:35:57 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jsanders2001

And the left has built up a politically correct shield against holding any minority accountable for malfeasance in office that our system of checks and balances has been neutered.


8 posted on 11/01/2013 5:36:17 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Texas Fossil
Is the rule of law totally gone?

The answer to your question will reveal itself based on whether anyone is prosecuted, convicted for their crimes.

9 posted on 11/01/2013 5:36:22 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Westbrook
Don’t know where we go from here. Don’t know how to get back to where we were from where we are.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

10 posted on 11/01/2013 5:36:48 AM PDT by EricT. (Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Big brother is watching you.)
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To: Westbrook

Correct.

Freedom was never won by negotiation.

Will we see Obama reach a Ceausescu Moment?


11 posted on 11/01/2013 5:37:19 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Westbrook

Remember, that happened recently in Egypt.

Will the Truth about Benghazi “come out of Egypt”? Will that lead to Obama’s Ceausescu Moment? Where from there?


12 posted on 11/01/2013 5:38:32 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: jsanders2001
When you have lawbreakers in charge, laws don’t seem to matter.

When you make a 'black panther' the 'top cop' of your nation, you should expect his CONTEMPT of your laws, rules, Congress and Constitution ...


13 posted on 11/01/2013 5:40:31 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“Welcome to New Kenya”

“Where the law of the jungle has replace the Law of the Land”

Wed 28 Jan 2009 06:42:31 AM CST by Texas Fossil

See my post #23 at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2173300/posts


14 posted on 11/01/2013 5:40:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

Whoa! Larry Klayman is on the case!!! People are going to jail!!

Not.


15 posted on 11/01/2013 5:40:58 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: lbryce

Yep


16 posted on 11/01/2013 5:42:33 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Westbrook

Don’t know where we go from here. Don’t know how to get back to where we were from where we are.

The House of Representatives doing their Constitutional duty would be a good start. But, one would have to be prepared for the media onslaught. The House by law can tell the supreme court what’s what and the same with the pontificating from the white hut. The House has to balls.


17 posted on 11/01/2013 5:43:08 AM PDT by wita
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To: SC_Pete

We shall see.

Now if more Departments are involved, this could really expand.


18 posted on 11/01/2013 5:43:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: MrB

> And the left has built up a politically correct shield against holding any minority accountable for malfeasance in office that our system of checks and balances has been neutered.

You just summarized exactly what has kept the evil one office this long.


19 posted on 11/01/2013 5:45:22 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Texas Fossil

His audiences are too tightly controlled, with too many planted prop people.


20 posted on 11/01/2013 5:47:09 AM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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