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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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I don't despise you.
I feel sorry for you. It must be difficult to chime in and support people who have been demonstrably dishonest about as serious a matter as the death of a Secretary of State. I feel sorry for people that must parse every word they say else the lies they've promoted on this forum be exposed. Being dishonest and deceptive so regularly can't be good for one's health. Hating someone like Klayman as much as some of you appear to hate him also can't be good.
I see. She's saying she IS an adult, and now you come along and say she isn't?
I can tell you one other thing: no kid of mine would believe this JW crap.
And I post on these threads because I want to.
Are you claiming that something I've said about Brown isn't verifiable? I'm not the one who claimed a gun was found and it didn't match the bullet wound. You did. I'm not one who contradicted the expert pathologists and claimed Brown couldn't have survived the crash. You did. I'm not one who UNTRUTHFULLY claimed there was no way the plane could have crashed at a predetermined spot. You did. And in each and every one of those cases you were provided information previously by me that should have kept you from making such claims. Sounds like dishonesty to me.
I said I don't agree; you're never going to change my mind, along with the vast majority of Americans.
You still don't get it Howlin. I'm not trying to change your mind because you are hopeless. But you make a good straightwoman for showing others out there that there is more to the Brown matter than they've been led to believe ... by people like you and your move-on friends.
Speaking of hopeless.....
Thanks for making another misleading and dishonest statement. You know perfectly well why I'm calling you a liar. You have tried to claim that you know all about Brown. In fact on one thread you wrote I know more about it than you do. . As we have seen demonstrated in this thread that is untrue. You also claimed to have sources that convinced you that Brown wasn't murdered. But for some reason, you refuse to name those sources ... just like you've refused to name other sources during this thread. My suspicion is that you don't have any sources ... that all you have is that talking point in front of you.
You would think so, but look at her friends...
The MEDIA, print and TV
Hollywood Fat Cats
Famous Million and Billionaires
Communist Chinese Government
The Terrorist Network
Bill Clinton
The Circle of Power that surrounds Hillary has put her where she is today, because she has a purpose and other's have plans for her and also for events that will happen through her.
Eliminating the electoral college, giving votes to illegal immigrants (on purpose, or through fraud) will definitely be on the "to do" list for this rising star of darkness.
And why did YOU show up on this thread, Amelia? Change of shift about to take place?
Post it RIGHT HERE, along with the quote where I said Linda Tripp was a liar.
We'll ALL be waiting.
Just so we are clear, are you defending Howlin in the Brown case because you also believe he was not murdered?
So glad you agree! Without Judicial Watch, where would this country be? The lies that would have remained hidden, the scandals we never would have known about, even now the media does leak out JW's work into the AP wires... Without JW, there would only be silence.
Is this really what Freepers want?
Dont let BEALIAR hear you say that. LOL
I guess FR's resident Gay Porn Expert would know it when he sees it, huh?
BTW, Registered, they're talking about NAMBLA on the Keyes show.
I want to talk about war, strategy in the Middle East, and how the New York Times is a bunch of lying clymers!
At any rate, Larry Klayman will probably sue President Bush this week over the Saudi visit or something. LOL!
I'll tell my CPA...he says Im doing ok...
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