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    And there it is: proof of political prosecution




    According to new IRS emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch, former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner contacted the Department of Justice in May 2013 about whether tax exempt groups could be criminally prosecuted for "lying" about political activity.

    "I got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ ... He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s [sic] could talk to about Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together false statement cases about applicants who "lied" on their 1024s --saying they weren't planning on doing political activity, and then turning around and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any damage this might do to IRS programs. I told him that sounded like we might need several folks from IRS," Lerner wrote in a May 8, 2013 email to former Nikole C. Flax, who was former-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller's chief of staff.

    "I think we should do it – also need to include CI [Criminal Investigation Division], which we can help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to FEC. Does it make sense to consider including them in this or keep it separate?" Flax responded on May 9, 2013.



    [....]


    Last week news broke that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' staff was in contact with Lerner about the conservative group True the Vote, despite denying any contact occurred. In this specific instance of Lerner discussing possible criminal prosecution of tax-exempt groups through DOJ, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse seems to have been the person to get the ball rolling.

    On April 9, 2013 during a Senate Judiciary Hearing, just one month before the targeting scandal broke, Whitehouse asked witnesses from DOJ and the IRS why groups that had possibly "made false statements" about their political activities had not been prosecuted. On March 27, 2013, just days before the hearing took place, Lerner described the purpose for the hearing to IRS staff in an email.

    "As I mentioned yesterday -- there are several groups of folks from the FEC world that are pushing tax fraud prosecution for c4s who report they are not conducting political activity when they are (or these folks think they are). One is my ex-boss Larry Noble (former General Counsel at the FEC), who is now president of Americans for Campaign Reform. This is their latest push to shut these down. One IRS prosecution would make an impact and they wouldn't feel so comfortable doing the stuff," she wrote. "So, don't be fooled about how this is being articulated – it is ALL about 501(c)(4) orgs and political activity."
    Treasure-trove of documents.


    So, we now have proof of what we've all known all along: the IRS, working in concert with the DOJ, Elijah Cummings, and at least one Leftist activist group have specifically sought to use the power of the federal government to silence dissenting opinion and quash political opposition, both through intimidation and through conspiring to put political opposition through prosecution on trumped-up "crimes."

    The only thing remaining is the inevitable link to David Axelrod. No doubt the criminals involved are scrambling like crazy to try to cover that up, but there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that this is where it will all lead. No one is ever going to convince me that this did not come at the direction of the Obama campaign.
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    How do you target political opposition when the organization claims it isn't political?
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

    ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956​

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    • #3
      On a related note: I've spent the last two nights watching something that: a.) I should have watched a long time ago, and; b.) should have had the same kind of wall-to-wall coverage as Watergate did.

      House Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS' illegal targeting of conservatives. It's two and a half hours. It's a night of TV. And it's very much worth watching.


      There should have been a special counsel appointed on this long ago. There's some interesting history on why that hasn't happened.
      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
        How do you target political opposition when the organization claims it isn't political?
        What organization claims it isn't political? Other than people like Priorities USA, I mean.
        It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
        In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
        Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
        Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Adam View Post
          There's some interesting history on why that hasn't happened.
          The crotch sniffing killed it. Yep.
          “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

          ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956​

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          • #6
            When the IRS inspector general found improper targeting of conservative groups in the Cincinnati office, Obama called the conduct “inexcusable.” Last month, though, he told Bill O’Reilly there was not a “smidgen of corruption” in the IRS.
            It would be helpful if a media outlet would ask Obama how he could make that statement and then keep asking it until he gave an answer.
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            Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
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            may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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            • #7
              People like Bok aren't going to care about it until approved media pundits care about it. Approved media pundits won't care about it until people like Bok care about it.


              This is Clinton's perjury all over again.
              "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
              -John Locke

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