Posted on 11/16/2016 2:12:29 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Full Title : New Documents Reveal Top Obama IRS Official Admitted Cincinnati Office Targeted Groups Based on Guilt by Association
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained 1593 pages of new documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including notes from a 2011 interoffice meeting revealing a top IRS official admitted that Cincinnati office agents were targeting organizations requesting tax exempt status based on guilt by association and party affiliation. According to former IRS Director of the Office of Rulings and Agreements Holly Paz, they think they know what the org is really doing, rather than looking at actual activities.
The new documents came in response to a Judicial Watch October 2013 a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:13-cv-01559)) against the IRS seeking the following: All records related to the number of applications received or related to communications between the IRS and members of the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate regarding the review process for organizations applying for tax exempt status under 501(c)(4); All records concerning communications between the IRS and the Executive Branch or any other government agency regarding the review process for organizations applying for tax exempt status under 501(c)(4); Copies of any questionnaires and all records related to the preparation of questionnaires sent to organizations applying for 501(c)(4) tax exempt status. All records related to Lois Lerners communication with other IRS employees, as well as government or private entity outside the IRS regarding the review and approval process for 501 (c)(4) applicant organizations.
Included in the newly obtained IRS documents were handwritten notes from an unidentified source at an interoffice meeting in the Washington headquarters, which apparently took place in or around August 2011.
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Hopefully nothing is really done about Lerner for the next 60 days as she smugly enjoys her lavish federal pension. Sometime in late winter a special prosecutor will hear her assert her 5th amendment right again. Sometime next spring Lois Lerner will be charged with multiple felonies and will soon be enjoying a lavish (unfortunately) federal penitentiary.
Democrats should be given two choices: Support draconian legislation to remove the bias and abuses at the IRS and other government agencies or Trump puts the hammer down on the left 10x what the IRS did in this case.
They would fold.
This can’t be true, EVERYONE in the IRS TESTIFIED UNDER OATH before Congress that there was “NO TARGETING” of Conservative groups.
All directed by Val and BO. That’s why they pled the 5th to protect BO
Masterful Idea!!!
It’s news, because it’s proof of what we knew, that the IRS was used to punish political enemies of the WH.
Hopefully Trump will clean house.
Probably not enough “proof” for Comey...
All the Tea Party groups should sue and the government (2017) should agree to a consent decree where each Tea Party group gets $10M per year for ever.
Start arresting folks. They all need to go to jail. Ain’t no sympathy for IRS agents/staff.
The IRS needs to be abolished. Our country was founded and grew so well until the PROGRESSIVE income tax was enacted. That is when the middle class wealth began to be drained.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to return to the constitutionally correct principle of no income tax? That is what should happen. We’ll see.
yes, do not let these guys go, the country lives under the law if the gangstamint doesn’t it must be dealt with.
Whatever sentence is given to IRS employees convicted of these crimes, let it also include public flogging.
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