Posted on 11/20/2022 6:05:22 AM PST by Conservativetpa
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate former president Donald Trump’s possession of classified information, was a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s infamous targeting of conservative non-profits, according to a 2014 report by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.
On Oct. 8, 2010, Smith, then-Chief of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section at the time, called a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner “to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits,” according to testimony from Richard Pilger, then director of the section’s Election Crimes Branch and subordinate of Smith’s, to the Oversight Committee.
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Figures. Al Capone hires Frank Nitti.
Yeah
“Independent” Counsel my A&&
This guy should be dragged before the Judiciary Committee in handcuffs
The same ones he plans to use on every Republican
this action looks really bad for democraps (IMO) but they don’t seem to care.
All Special councils have been about covering up the crimes of democrats or persecuting republicans who make democrats uncomfortable. Either way they are very corrupt. And they are also ultimately controlled by the AG. Meaning that they are not independent at all.
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