Posted on 07/30/2022 7:23:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A senior Justice Department official recently flagged by a U.S. senator in an FBI whistleblower probe into alleged politicization of prosecutions played a key role in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal a decade ago in which conservative Tea Party groups were improperly targeted for scrutiny, government emails and congressional evidence shows.
Richard Pilger, the current chief of the DOJ Elections Crime Branch of the department's Public Integrity Section, engaged in discussions in 2010 and 2013 with Lerner and other IRS officials about ways to pursue criminal prosecutions of conservative nonprofits, the records show.
The discussion led the FBI, with Pilger's direct help, to obtain and review 1.1 million pages of documents from conservative groups and even ponder charging the groups with making false statements on their IRS applications as nonprofits because they had engaged in political speech activities, according to congressional investigators.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired then by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), concluded in 2014 that Pilger's discussions were part of a larger effort by the Obama administration to criminalize political speech by conservative groups that opposed the administration's agenda.
"These documents suggest that the Department actively considered prosecuting non-profit groups for their political activities," the final report concluded. "The Department went so far as to meet with the IRS about the investigation and to gather a 1.1 million-page database of information as potential evidentiary material. Even more astounding, the Department considered prosecuting non-profit groups for actions that are legal for 501(c)(4) groups under federal tax law — that is, for engaging in political speech."
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TOTALLY CORRUPT AGENTS, ALL OF THEM!
Bump
Far worse than that, it TODAY funds Democrat political dominance, and pays for all woke/leftist social engineering
Obama administration to criminalize political speech by conservative groups that opposed the administration’s agenda.
And he was elected twice boy boy those voters sure know what to look for when voting huh Moe.
Far worse than that, it TODAY funds Democrat political dominance, and pays for all woke/leftist social engineering
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Dems have taken full advantage of the powers of big government to push and fund their agenda.
And unlike Republicans, they play to win.
Those with the greatest will to win usually do, and that’s the edge the Democrats have over us. They are on offense all the time, and they run circles around the clueless Pubbies.
As long as we rely on the GOP to be “our party” (which it isn’t) we will continue to be disappointed. The GOP is not, and never will be, a conservative party.
but we can Thank him for exposing it to “We the People” ..Its why he needs to be elected again... Probably our only real hope of getting our country back...
“Unfortunately, Trump did NOTHING to clean it up. Worse, He even put Wray in charge of FBI.”
Where you alive 5 years ago??? You’re flat out wring. Trump did everything he could. But he was stymied by traitors all around him. Starting with Pence. And Mitch. And Ryan. He came to town with no political staff, and the Uniparty kneecapped him everywhere he turned.
He wanted to fire many of them, but was always threatened with impeachment (or the 25th(!) Ammendment). Everywhere he turned, he was backstabbed.
Treason from within is always worse than from outside.
He did amazingly well, considering the lay of the land. Better than anyone else on the planet could have.
Jeeze, dude.
A posthumous pardon is of no real value to the dead guy
The Lerner testimony is still sealed.
‘nuff said?
bttt
... Not just Biden, but all of those in the Deep State (viz., FBI, DoJ, AG, ...).
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