JUDICIAL WATCH FIGHTS CLINTON IRS ATTEMPTED AUDIT

Judicial Watch ^ | April 18, 2002

[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.

© Copyright 1997-2002, Judicial Watch, Inc.

[Howlin]

I would just as soon ALL non-profits make a public disclosure, including Presidential libraries and groups like Rainbow/Push.

I'd be willing to bet my HOUSE that that is one lawsuit Larry Klayman will never instigate. He won't even issue a press release.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

"But you'll be laughing in the other direction."

I will not be laughing in the other direction. I know that the cause of Judicial Watch is just and I still do not understand why people here give them such a hard time and expect them to live up to this impossible standard of perfection. I seem to be more realistic here than some of you.

[deport]

what is 'eww'?

Why........ the "ethical Washington Watchdog".... of course.

The Watchdog of Washington

[FreedominJesusChrist]

"You're twenty years old and claiming vast life experiences. Sweety, you were a teenager last year!"

You need to see the source that I was replying too. Howlin had just finished telling me that I haven't had ANY life experiences yet. I know that I haven't had vast amounts, but still have some under my belt.

What I really want to know is why my age always has to come up in these threads, for it has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand.

[Howlin]

For example, even though my dad is a pastor, when I graduated into high school, he gave me the choice whether or not to go to church--I decided to keep going.

Well, I see the problem now. If you cannot make decisions about going to church without somebody giving you the option, you're not very mature.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

ROTFL!!!

[Howlin]

What I really want to know is why my age always has to come up in these threads

Because your naivety is in every single one of your posts.

[Amelia]

I think you two need to meet. You seem to have a lot in common.

[deport]

The Washington Watchdog

sorry forgot the link

[Jean S]

I apologize. My children are older than you so I consider you very, very young physically and therefore mentally. And that's wrong of me. You write very intelligently and much better than most forty-year-olds that I know.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

No, it is not that I was immature for my age, it has more to do that I lived in my parents house at the time and obeyed the rules that they had set forth. Before high school, one of those rules was going to church every Sunday. I respected my parents' authority and generally speaking, obeyed all their rules.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Thanks. I'll check that out.

P.S. I'll bet he's wearing rainbow-colored pants and big, floppy red shoes in that photo. You just can't see 'em.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Thank-you for your encouragement. I really do appreciate it.

[Howlin]

You may believe that it is unfair that Judicial Watch spends large amounts of their income on fundraising, but apparently, their supporters do not seem to mind.

I defy you to link ONE ORGANIZATION that spends 4 percent of their INTAKE on the stated purpose of their very existence.

Fundraising is a survival tactic for most non-profits and that is why there is so much emphasis placed on it.

Ask your daddy what would happen to HIM if he only spent 4 percent of the money he took in each year on "teaching the gospel."

[hole_n_one]

I know that the cause of Judicial Watch is just and I still do not understand why people here give them such a hard time and expect them to live up to this impossible standard of perfection.

Larry is a riot........

[FreedominJesusChrist]

That is different and an unfair comparison.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

That is different and an unfair comparison.

Why?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I actually thought that paricular Insight Magazine article was good; it was fair. You should read it.

[F16Fighter]

Way to cut to the quick...

Any IRS audit ordered by Mr. and Mrs. Bubba is suspect without question, and should be assumed were NOT done in the name of "justice." And in all fairness, Bush and Ashcroft ought to suspend and nullify ALL current audits ordered by the previous devious administration.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Because she was putting religion and politics into the same Kingdom. There are Two Different Kingdoms--that of the religious or heavenly, and that of the civic. Those two worlds just are not run the same.