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What
a shock. Judicial Watch discovered that top IRS officials, including
Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, knew that the agency targeted conservative
groups before they told Congress. Judicial Watch reported:
The
FBI documents also reveal that IRS officials stated that the agency was
targeting conservative groups because of their ideology and political
affiliation in the summer of 2011. According to one senior tax law
specialist, “The case seemed to be pulled because of the applicant’s
political affiliation and screening is not supposed to occur that way …
[Redacted] said he thought the cases were being pulled based upon
political affiliations.” And IRS senior official Nancy Marks, appointed
by [then-acting Commissioner Steven] Miller to conduct an internal
investigation stated, “Cincinnati was categorizing cases based on name
and ideology, not just activity.”
The
FBI documents show the
agents used a BOLO (Be On the Look Out) guides to look at “cases using
the Tea Party term.” The agents interviewed an IRS Technical Advisor
that reported to Lerner:
[Redacted]
attended a meeting in the summer of 2011. She was not invited, but she
was talking to LERNER about something else in the office when LERNER
mentioned that it would be interesting for her to attend … Only people
from Washington, D.C. were in the room, to include HOLLY PAZ … At the
meeting, it was disclosed that one of the ways Cincinnati was looking
for cases was using the “Tea Party” term. They were calling the body of
cases involving political activity “Tea Party” cases. The concern was
that the IRS had put a label on the cases that would be problematic. [FULL]
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