Posted on 09/04/2014 2:52:41 PM PDT by adingdangdoo
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released a new batch of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) email documents revealing that under former IRS official Lois Lerner, the agency seems to acknowledge having needlessly solicited donor lists from non-profit political groups. According to a May 21, 2012, memo from the IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel: “such information was not needed across-the-board and not used in making the agency’s determination on exempt status.” Later, in her May 10, 2013, remarks in which Lerner first revealed in response to question she planted about the IRS targeting of conservative groups, she conceded that the requests for donor names was “not appropriate, not usual.” The new documents obtained by Judicial Watch also reveal that 75% of the groups from whom the lists were solicited were apparently conservative, with only 5% being liberal.
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But she wanted to harass people directly.
Lois Lerner is essentially a Nazi at heart.
The IRS didn’t need the donor lists, but the left-wing groups she wanted to help needed them to harass people they disagreed with.
A very long time ago, I was told that EO/EP (exempt Organizations/Employee Plans) was where the IRS transferred personnel it could not get rid of. Once an IRS employee has one year of employment , he or she are employed for life.
The current regime is full of pathological socialist in the Nazi mode.
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The communications sought by Judicial Watch covered portions of the same period for which the IRS on June 13, 2014, notified the Senate Finance Committee that Lerner’s emails had been lost or destroyed but did not notify the Court or Judicial Watch about these missing emails. In response to our request for more information, U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan held a July 10 hearing and order the IRS to produce sworn declarations about its efforts to find and restore Lerner’s allegedly missing emails.
And then on August 25, Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS conceded to Judicial Watch that Lerner’s “missing emails” (and all government records) had been backed in case of catastrophe but that it would be too “onerous” to search this backup system for Lerner’s emails. The Justice Department has since put out anonymous statements alleging Judicial Watch “misheard” what its lawyers said and that the agency did not disclose “new” information about a back-up system.
It is not in dispute that the existence of any back-up system was withheld from the court despite two orders (order 1, order 2) demanding specifically sworn declarations about where Lerner’s emails may be residing and effort to obtain them. The Obama administration has refused Judicial Watch’s requests to amend the sworn declarations and finally inform Judge Sullivan directly about this back-up system. Administration lawyers have steadfastly refused and subsequently submitted a “ status report” to the Court on August 29 that, again, makes no mention of any back-up system.
Judicial Watch lawyers are preparing now to ask the Court for relief in light of the Obama administration’s continuing obstruction and contempt for Judge Sullivan’s orders.
“Again, Judicial Watch has uncovered more shocking emails from the IRS, forced out by a lawsuit and a federal court,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Now we learn the stunning news that Obama’s IRS had a ‘secret research program’ using illicitly-obtained confidential donor lists of conservative and Tea Party organizations that opposed President Obama’s agenda or reelection. With all this IRS abuse, it is no wonder Lois Lerner said that questions by Congress and others were ‘dangerous.’ And it is well past time that President Obama should be held to account about his repeated and recent falsehoods about his IRS scandal. Next up: Judicial Watch will ask Judge Sullivan for help in requiring the Obama IRS to stop its obstruction and disclose the no-longer-missing emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials.”
Yes, and; every agency under Obama acts like the thugs under Hitler. Even the VA will target a veteran if the Vet turns in a Gov employee. Obama and his Czars are like Hitler’s “Brown Shirts.”
She was funneling that info to her fellow travelors in the Congress too.
Obama: ‘Not a smidgen’ of IRS corruption
Not a “smidgen”. There were “smidgens” and they are coming home to roost.
This explains why I was targeted twice.
The second time my tax return data was changed by someone in the IRS.
This explains why I was targeted twice.
The second time my tax return data was changed by someone in the IRS.
Pre-Nazi Germany used similar tactics ( in more primitive forms) to weed out unwanted groups.
I wonder why Congress didn’t just hire Judicial Watch to do their investigation?? oops I forgot, Congress is COMPLICIT!!
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