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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OBAMA & his Muslim minions have totally corrupted the USA politics.
This has been building since the days of Woodrow Wilson. It is deep, dirty and incestuous. Only way to at least slow it down is to vote and throw the bass turds out!
And while the IRS scandal has now mostly been relegated to the history books, Pilger’s name resurfaced Monday when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Foster’s old boss in the Senate, revealed in a letter to FBI Director Chris Way and Attorney General Merrick Garland that multiple FBI whistleblowers have raised concerns that agents and DOJ officials are politically tampering with investigations.
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Grassley’s letter did not mention Pilger, but he cited the DOJ official in an official statement from his Senate office.
Because criminals are not caught it emboldens them to the point that eventually the light does shine on them.
Our founding fathers designed a slow inefficient govt on purpose. WE DON’T WANT AN EFFICIENT GOVERNEMENT.
The administrative state has been weaponized by the Left.
Corruption is now endemic and practically impossible to root out. The Republicans certainly won’t do it because they love big government just as much as the Dems do.
“ OBAMA & his Muslim minions have totally corrupted the USA politics.”
Unfortunately, Trump did NOTHING to clean it up. Worse, He even put Wray in charge of FBI.
This is why we urgently need Desantis in 2024. We need someone who knows how to hire good people and fire bad ones. Someone who focuses on the job he needs to do, not on tweeting day and night.
Correct. Obama should be brought up on charges for completing the utter corrupting the federal government.
Unfortunately, Trump did NOTHING to clean it up. Worse, He even put Wray in charge of FBI.
A man that hit over 50% used to be a hero.
You and people like you are the problem. You sit and complain and do nothing.
Trump is still in the game. Perfect hell no, but making a lot of hits.
Our founding fathers designed a slow inefficient govt on purpose.
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Our Founding Fathers never imagined there would be careerist politicians, a massively corrupt administrative state, and an enabling media that’s closely allied with one party. There’s so much money flowing into Washington corruption, malfeasance and mismanagement are inevitable. The system is rotten to the core.
So we throw everything out because you want an efficient govt.
Oh they imagined it, that is why they designed what they did.
We need to bet back to the design. But to do that, we need to understand the design and know our heritage.
Name them and shame them.
I shudder to think what I might do if I saw that woman walking down the street.
Lerner should be unable to safely leave her home, you know, since prosecution and conviction eludes the DC class in most all cases.
So we throw everything out because you want an efficient govt.
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Its not really about efficiency. A growing behemoth will never become efficient, and trust me, its getting bigger every day.
What its all about is corruption and control. The bigger government gets the more opportunities there are to achieve both objectives. These people are all in it for the power and the money.
The system will crush anyone who tries to reform it.
Democrats are Democrats first.
Being an American is way down on their list.
Name them and shame them.
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You can’t do that. These people are impervious to shame or condemnation. It doesn’t phase them.
The system will crush anyone who tries to reform it.
Demonstrators should be picketing outside Lois Lerner’s home.
Demonstrators should be picketing outside Lois Lerner’s home.
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