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Posted on 12/09/2014 9:11:23 PM PST by smoothsailing
Former IRS executive Lois Lerner met with officials from the Department of Justice election crimes staff as early as September 2010 to discuss prosecution of conservative and Tea Party nonprofit applicants, according to new emails obtained by a watchdog group.
In a Sept. 29, 2010, email from an unnamed DOJ official, arrangements were made for a meeting the following month between attorneys from the election crimes unit of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section and the IRS to "discuss 501(c)(4) issues."
The 501(c)(4) reference is to a provision of the tax code that allows limited political activity by nonprofits.
Lerner attended the Oct. 8, 2010, meeting in place of Sarah Hall Ingram, the tax agency's commissioner for the tax-exempt and government entities office. Lerner was the senior career executive in charge of the IRS staff that managed reviews of applicants for tax exemption by nonprofit groups.
The 2010 meetings are significant because Lerner told journalists in 2013 that the targeting of the conservative and Tea Party nonprofit applicants began between the 2010 and 2012 elections.
The email was obtained by Judicial Watch, the nonprofit government watchdog group that sued the IRS under the Freedom of Information Act for copies of correspondence between IRS and DOJ officials.
The government provided only two emails while withholding more than 800 under a variety of FOIA exemptions.
Earlier this year, Judicial Watch won a federal court order that resulted in the IRS releasing documents concerning meetings between Lerner and other tax agency officials in 2013 with DOJ prosecutors.
“These new documents dramatically show how the Justice Department is up to its neck in the IRS scandal and can’t be trusted to investigate crimes associated with the IRS abuses that targeted Obama’s critics," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
"And it is of particular concern that the DOJ’s public integrity section, which would ordinarily investigate the IRS abuses, is now implicated in the IRS crimes," he said.
An IRS spokesman has been asked for comment.
Mark Tapscott is executive editor of the Washington Examiner.
Today’s Judicial Watch Press Release
Good luck asking our racially nervous Republicans to do anything about that...ha. They are in power now and they will do nothing to jeopardize that because well - power and money...
If we can find the admin RAT who suggested starting the Coffee Party, we can probably nexus them to Lerner and the rest.
Zero publicly calling us ‘teabaggers’ was the GO rat-whistle.
If there are no deeply incriminating E-mails in any of the recent trove of Lerner E-mails recently found, we’ll know for sure that they’ve ALREADY BEEN CULLED by the DemonRat criminals involved.
From today’s Judicial Watch press release (see post#2)
“These new documents dramatically show how the Justice Department is up to its neck in the IRS scandal and can’t be trusted to investigate crimes associated with the IRS abuses that targeted Obama’s critics. And it is of particular concern that the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, which would ordinarily investigate the IRS abuses, is now implicated in the IRS crimes. No wonder the Department of Justice under Eric Holder has done no serious investigation of the Obama IRS scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is shameful how Establishment Washington has let slide by Obama’s abuse of the IRS and the Justice Department. Only as a result of Judicial Watch’s independent investigations did the American people learn about the IRS-DOJ prosecution discussions of Obama’s political enemies and how the IRS sent, in violation of law, confidential taxpayer information to the FBI and DOJ in 2010. Richard Nixon was impeached for less.”
I've been asking that question for a while now, indirectly, in discussions about the origins of one taxpayer-funded organization we know was created by Obama or one of his Flying Monkeys tribes, MoveOn.org
Not even the pretense of Constitutional legitimacy there!
Moveon.org was created by Clinton supporters long before anyone heard of Obama. The phrase "move on" referred to the Clinton scandals and impeachment.
First of all Nixon was not impeached. He had the honor, the good grace and the character to avoid the resulting stress to the Republic.
And Yes, Nixon's transgression was many orders of magnitude less traumatic to the Republic and disdainful to its Constitution than the Kenyan imposter, and his "Fundamental Transformation..." thing.
I stand corrected, but am puzzled as to why Obama allowed the organization, created by the candidate he defeated for the presidential nomination, to continue.
Yes, I do believe that Ol' Piano Legs was the Svengali in that odd couple.
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No, actually, Nixon wasn't impeached. He resigned.
According to Republicans - old news, let it go! That is what we have to put up with our politicians.
Are there legal charges that can be brought against the individuals involved— or are they waiting for O to be out of office so they won’t be pardoned?
So...the government of, by and for the people is willing to release just 0.0025% of the emails in question. If this is freedom of information I’d hate to see imprisonmemt of it.
Correction 0.25%
>> According to Republicans - old news, let it go!
I’m hoping the new breed will eventually purge the crap that’s backed up our Liberty.
Thanks smoothsailing.
It is time to send some perjurers to jail.
Obama has ben most successful at the fringes, the very poor and the very rich gave done OK. Obama has been a disaster for the middle class.
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