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New emails show IRS' Lerner met with DOJ prosecutors before 2010 elections
Washington Examiner ^ | 12-9-2014 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 12/09/2014 9:11:23 PM PST by smoothsailing

New emails show IRS' Lerner met with DOJ prosecutors before 2010 elections

BY: Mark Tapscott December 9, 2014

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doj; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; lerner; loislerner
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1 posted on 12/09/2014 9:11:23 PM PST by smoothsailing
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Today’s Judicial Watch Press Release

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-lawsuit-forces-release-doj-emails-showing-irss-lois-lerner-met-doj-officials-just-2010-elections/


2 posted on 12/09/2014 9:15:42 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

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...


3 posted on 12/09/2014 9:17:42 PM PST by Deagle
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To: smoothsailing

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.


4 posted on 12/09/2014 9:18:43 PM PST by txhurl (No more taglines)
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To: smoothsailing

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.


5 posted on 12/09/2014 9:21:08 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

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.”


6 posted on 12/09/2014 9:36:53 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: txhurl
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.

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!

7 posted on 12/09/2014 9:49:22 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: publius911
...we know was created by Obama or one of his Flying Monkeys tribes, MoveOn.org

Moveon.org was created by Clinton supporters long before anyone heard of Obama. The phrase "move on" referred to the Clinton scandals and impeachment.

8 posted on 12/09/2014 9:57:31 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: smoothsailing
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.

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.

9 posted on 12/09/2014 10:04:13 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
The phrase "move on" referred to the Clinton scandals and impeachment.

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.

10 posted on 12/09/2014 10:13:30 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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11 posted on 12/09/2014 10:18:05 PM PST by LucyT
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To: smoothsailing
Richard Nixon was impeached for less.

No, actually, Nixon wasn't impeached. He resigned.

12 posted on 12/09/2014 11:50:44 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: smoothsailing

According to Republicans - old news, let it go! That is what we have to put up with our politicians.


13 posted on 12/09/2014 11:54:50 PM PST by Deagle
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To: smoothsailing; LucyT; maggief; WildHighlander57; crosslink

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?


14 posted on 12/10/2014 2:35:25 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: smoothsailing

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.


15 posted on 12/10/2014 3:04:38 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: relictele

Correction 0.25%


16 posted on 12/10/2014 3:06:10 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Deagle

>> 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.


17 posted on 12/10/2014 3:10:35 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Thanks smoothsailing.


18 posted on 12/10/2014 5:14:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: smoothsailing

It is time to send some perjurers to jail.


19 posted on 12/10/2014 7:10:46 AM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO is defeated a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: smoothsailing

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.


20 posted on 12/10/2014 8:27:14 AM PST by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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