| Tom
Fitton, senior official for Judicial Watch (Mark Levin's group), wrote
the Breitbart article below. Yes, you will blow a gasket reading
it.
But just wait till you get to the part Sen. John McCain plays. If
you
hated him before, you will hate him even more now. And the
bastard has
the audacity to announce he will run for another term! -skoonj |
Judicial Watch has just released a new batch of documents forced out of
the IRS that show the Obama administration’s scandalous misuse of the
IRS to target Tea Party and other conservatives goes far deeper than
realized.
Included in the new batch of documents is a February 2012 email from
Lois Lerner, who was then head of the IRS’ Exempt Organizations Branch,
asking that a special program be set up to “put together some training
points to help [IRS staffers] understand the potential pitfalls” of
revealing too much information to
A
May 1, 2013, email exchange between Lois Lerner and other top IRS
staffers revealed that she met with select top staffers from the Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee in a “marathon” meeting to discuss
concerns raised by both Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and McCain that the
IRS was not reining in political advocacy groups in response to the
Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
Congress. Amid the hundreds of released pages, Judicial Watch also
found a remarkable Lerner email from 2013 in which she says she is
willing to take the blame for not having provided sufficient direction
to her underlings on how best to investigate the targeted groups, and
then concedes that she “understands why the IRS criteria” leading to
targeting of Tea Party groups and other opponents of President Obama
“might raise questions.”
In May 2013, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
(TIGTA) released an audit revealing the IRS had used “inappropriate
criteria” to identify potential political cases. “Early in Calendar
Year 2010,” TIGTA wrote, “the IRS began using inappropriate criteria to
identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status to (e.g., lists
of past and future donors).” The illegal IRS reviews continued for more
than 18 months and, TIGTA reported, “delayed processing of targeted
groups’ applications” preparing for the 2012 presidential election.”
Not so coincidentally, during this period of time, Lerner emailed
former Director of the Office of Rulings and Agreements Holly Paz,
attempting to limit information provided by the IRS to Congress about
non-profit classifications. Here is the exchange:
Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:28 PM– Lois Lerner to Holly Paz:
Subject: Review of Classification
Write -Ups
While you were gone, Judy
[Kindell – former Lerner advisor] and Sharon [Light – Lerner advisor]
had the opportunity to look at some of the write –up from the referral
committee and classification folks on cases they had reviewed. We are
all a bit concerned about the mention of specific Congress people,
practitioners and political parties. Our filed folks are not as
sensitive as we are to the fact that anything we write can be public–or
at least be seen by Congress. We talked with Nan [Downing – Director of
EO Examinations] and she thought it would be great if R & A could
put together some training points to help them understand the potential
pitfalls, as well as how to think about referrals. As a starting point,
Nan has sent up a bunch of papers that I asked Tom Miller [EO technical
advisor] to review to provide feedback to Sharon/Judy –or whomever we
decide should draft the training.
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