Emails reveal IRS plot to jail conservatives
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April 16, 2014 9:13 am IRS-Gate
(Townhall) – According to new IRS emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch, former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner contacted the Department of Justice in May 2013 about whether tax exempt groups could be criminally prosecuted for “lying” about political activity.
“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,” Lerner wrote in a May 8, 2013 email to former Nikole C. Flax, who was former-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller’s chief of staff.
“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?” Flax responded on May 9, 2013.
Just how many computer ‘failures’ is the IRS reporting? I mean you are talking about email loss of multiple accounts in different offices, is this anywhere close to being possible? For all of the groans and moans about the PC/Windows world, these machines are really quite durable and have MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) ratings of a decade or so. So was this a email server that just was used by these officials? If so, why is there the mention of Ms Learner calling in IRS Tech Support about personal data? Storing personal data on government machines is a no-no, right?
Snif, snif, that odor is not cheese ...
so this is what it is like to live in a Banana Republic ... nice
