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Posted on 04/18/2002 10:49:16 AM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
For Immediate Release
Apr 18, 2002
Press Office: 202-646-5172
JUDICIAL WATCH FIGHTS CLINTON IRS ATTEMPTED AUDIT
IRS OFFICIAL ADMITS: “WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU SUE THE PRESIDENT?”
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the non-profit educational foundation that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it was fighting in court an audit attempt instituted by the Clinton IRS in retaliation for Judicial Watch’s litigation against President Clinton. Judicial Watch first received notice of an attempted IRS audit on October 9, 1998, a few days after its “Interim Impeachment Report,” which called for Bill Clinton’s impeachment for misuse of the IRS, was officially made part of the Congressional record. The IRS’s initial audit letter demanded that Judicial Watch “[p]rovide the names and addresses of the directors and their relationship to any political party or political groups.” In January, 1999, an IRS official admitted to Judicial Watch representatives, in the context of the propriety of the audit, “What do you expect when you sue the President?” Another IRS official admitted in June, 1999, that the political affiliations of Judicial Watch’s directors is a factor in any IRS audit.
After Judicial Watch scored legal victories against the Clinton Administration, Judicial Watch received audit notices and warnings from the IRS. For instance, immediately following its uncovering of the Clinton-Gore White House e-mail scandal in February, 2000, Judicial Watch lawyers received a call from an IRS official to inform them that Judicial Watch was still on the IRS’s “radar screen.” The IRS finally agreed to defer on deciding whether to audit Judicial Watch until after the Clinton Administration ended. Despite this agreement, in one of the last acts of the Clinton Administration, the IRS sent Judicial Watch another audit notice on January 8, 2001. The IRS also sent new audit notices throughout 2001 after Judicial Watch criticized IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti. Rossotti is a Clinton appointee who “inexplicably” continues to serve under President Bush. In addition to presiding over the audits of perceived critics of the Clinton Administration, Judicial Watch requested criminal and civil investigations of Rossotti for his criminal conflict of interest in holding stock in a company he founded, AMS, while it did business with the IRS.
Judicial Watch now is fighting the attempted audit in federal courts in the District of Columbia and Maryland. As Robert Novak reports in his April 18th column, despite repeated requests to Attorney General Ashcroft to investigate, his Bush Justice Department has thus far refused to do so. (See Judicial Watch's letter to Attorney General John Aschroft) Instead, in the context of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the Cheney Energy Task Force, a Bush Administration official told Novak, “I don't know what we are going to do with this Klayman.” A copy of Judicial Watch’s complaint against IRS officials is available by clicking here.
“Judicial Watch has no objection to IRS audits at the proper time and place, under correct, non-political circumstances. We have nothing to hide. But when we were told that we were being audited because we sued Bill Clinton, we had no choice but to stand up and fight in court. Now, for its own reasons, the Bush Administration is content to let Clinton appointee Rossotti continue to harass Judicial Watch. Our lawsuits in response are intended not only to protect Judicial Watch, but are for the good of all Americans,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
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This doesn't answer the question.
Can you break it down? Can you address the questions in post # 1336?
When a man walks through the streets of Washington, when his thoughts turn to love, his dreams turn to hope, his eyes see life renewed and blossiming, his ears hear the happy songbird chorus, his legs walk by Office box 44444 and his nostrils open awaiting the aromatic season and finds ... the rancid stench of graft and corruption!
Judicial Watch has Three regional offices! LOL!
On the contrary.......you have spent hours defending JW and insisting that everything is on the up and up.
How can you say that in one breath and cry ignorance in the next? You either know or you don't.
If you don't (as you now say), how can you be sure of any of your defenses?
Larry Klayman: $1,225,000
Some Thai Woman: $15,000
How do you know that? You just said that you have no detailed knowledge of JW's finances. What do you base the "clean record" on?
Please don't cite more JW PR. How do you know they have a clean record without knowing their books?
Could you be more specific please?
Well, if they hadn't been fighting that audit for going on 4 years now, they might not.
As it is, no one really knows if they're on the "up and up" or not, do they?
And I know you believe they are, but you've already said numerous times on this thread that you don't really know.
Oh, I see. That is what determines clean or unclean???
Well, I guess that gets the Clintons off the hook, huh?
Did Larry use that same criteria for his pursuits? Something doesn't add up with your reasoning, Rebeckie.
Whooo. What a relief. Thank goodness there is an IRS audit on tap to clean the slate!
Nothing like this has ever happened or been scandalized like this with Judicial Watch. It is a clean organization and I am not going to argue anymore about it.
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