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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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Audits aren't made public, so donor names wouldn't be disclosed to anyone except the IRS investigator.
As I understand the complaint about the IRS using audits as a political tool, the complaint is that it is a form of harassment. The IRS cannot make up charges. They can question people and ask for records, but if there is nothing wrong the audit is simply annoying.
Now if you have something to hide, that is a different story.
Hey, Klayman has a conservative [what you said] site, and people post from that. (I refuse to use your weird sexual terms.)
Sure is !!!!
I'm not a lawyer, I don't play one on TV, and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but people have been saying all through this thread that Larry couldn't file criminal charges against the Clintons because he wasn't a prosecutor.
If he couldn't file them against anyone else, I don't see how he could file them against this judge.
By the way, didn't he bring something up before that grand jury in Califiornia regarding Anne Marie Smitih (Condit girlfriend)? Wasn't that a criminal charge? If he could do it with that case, couldn't he do it with Clinton? And if he hasn't, why not?
I've posted some more snippets from www.stonesthrow.org, the website you are using against JW here in the forum, seeing as you TRUST this website so much, let's look at what else they have on that site:
Stoner of the Week Award
Every week, we specially honor with an extra-special rock, the representative who in our opinion has done an especially distinguished job of ignoring the will of the American people. We don't know if they've been engaged in any wrongdoing besides ignoring their voters, but this week the Stoner of the Week award goes to all the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. You know who they are. You know why they won it.
We encourage you to send each and every one of them a lump of coal for Christmas. It's a rock they've earned. You can send up to 70 pounds anywhere in the United States for just $3.00.
The citizens movement keeps growing, and growing, and growing...
We at the Stones Throw Project, MoveOn.org, and EnoughIsEnough.org, have been joined by a group in Iowa City, Iowa called the National Mad as Hell Campaign. Welcome on board, Leslea and Steve! Here are links to their sites:
House Manglers abandon The Rule of Law
For months they have intoned The Rule of Law--why do they now abandon it?
LET THEM KNOW!
Contact your Senators and let them know your thoughts on the House Manglers' Kangaroo Railroad.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President
At least try to make it a happy one.
Some of the member-sponsors of Citizens and Stones Throw give their views. Currently:
Is Murder an Impeachable Offense? by Helen Wheels. With many thanks to Beth Meacham for her research on Aaron Burr.
The Hammer Gets Nailed by Susan DuQuesnay, crack investigative humorist for the Fort Bend Star. Get the view on "Bugsy" DeLay from the Brazos River Yacht Club and Bait Camp.
Top Ten Republican Sayings Everyone needs a catchy saying in politics, to help their campaign come alive. See our preview of their rallying cries for the 2000 elections.
Tom's overflite flybys The most unique form of protest we've seen so far.
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