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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 Watchs 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 Clintons impeachment for misuse of the IRS, was officially made part of the Congressional record. The IRSs 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 Watchs 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 IRSs 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 Watchs 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 Watchs 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 haven't said that Mr. Klayman called it suicide. I said that I called it suicide. And that was before I saw all of your evidence that makes either murder or suicide seem implausible. If you keep that up, I may become reluctantly persuaded that the Government has been right about the crash and death all along.
You and I need to continue to work closely together if we're going to find the solution to this mystery. If we can persuade Judicial Watch to be more forthcoming, we will perhaps be several steps closer to the truth.
The public needs the truth. We need greater transparency over at Judicial Watch.
I certainly hope that Mr. Klayman won't "exit" either from this country or from this world. But the "over my dead body" threats do seem somewhat ominous.
Has anyone brought these threats to the attention of his family?
And this year, JW is educating us all on the true parameters of the Fifth Amendment.
I have never called Larry Klayman a liar. If you really believe so, I would like you to document that for me as well as everyone else on that thread.
And what in the world does Judicial Watch have to do with the death of Ron Brown? Poor Larry only asked for an autopsy and now you accuse him of covering up the real circumstances behind Brown's death because he doesn't want a politically motivated IRS audit?
We were THINKING about it, this was never an affirmative decision. It is true that this was my idea, but my group has an executive board and I am not just some demagogue that can do whatever I wish with our funds and activities, plus I would never do that any, I happen to like team-work. Besides, whatever I do with the group, is different from what I act on as an individual.
Thats Larrys press release headline.
"It is true that Bush and Ashcroft did not actually take part directly in the promotion of this guy..."
posted by FreedominJesusChrist.
Larry says that Bush/Ashcroft did this, you say that they didn't.
Either Larry is lying, or you are.
You happen to be telling the truth this time.
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