There is no longer any question about the overt corruption that is the IRS
and it's worse than you thought. The newly released Lois Lerner emails are the
smoking
gun.
During his testimony, he pointed to emails sent by former IRS official Lois Lerner that appear to contradict the administration's assertions that the targeting was not a coordinated effort from Washington. The emails were released by the House Ways and Means Committee as part of its probe of the IRS scandal. Sekulow explained that the emails show Lerner in contact with the IRS' chief counsel and other top lawyers at least a year before the scandal became public. He said that Lerner wrote about coming up with new rules to restrict non-profit groups. "They wanted to do it 'off-plan,' which means off the books so it's not on the public calendar. And all of that was taking place while the targeting was going on," he explained. Sekulow says the emails disprove the Obama administration's story about the targeting originating in a remote office among lower level IRS agents. Sekulow believes the email is a "smoking gun" in his plaintiffs' case against the IRS. "Legally, the IRS has been caught red-handed and the American people and certainly our plaintiffs are not taking it lying down," said Sekulow. He believes a special prosecutor must be called on to investigate, since the head of the current probe has been found to be a big Obama campaign donor. "When you see these emails and you understand what's in them, you realize the highest level of the IRS was conspiring with Lois Lerner at least a year before this scandal broke. And what they've attempted to do now is just cover their tracks."
Cleta Mitchell, an attorney representing some targeted conservative groups testified at the IRS hearings and listed the real crimes that have been committed:
"This scandal is not over," said Washington Attorney Cleta Mitchell, who's representing about a dozen of the targeted tea party groups. She rattled off a number of criminal offenses that have been committed in what she called, "this very ugly episode": "The lying has not stopped. There are lies upon lies in this ugly episode. The Commissioner of the IRS lied to Congress in March 2012 when he said there was absolutely no targeting, Mitchell declared, making sure to note that, "lying to Congress is a crime." She continued, "the Department of Justice refuses to investigate who it was that was responsible for releasing confidential tax information of Koch Industries to the president's Economic Advisor who in turn , released it to the press." "Or who released the National Organization of Marriage's tax return? I represent NOM - we sued the IRS to try to get to the bottom of why our confidential tax information was made available to our political opponents. Where's the FBI in investigating?....That is a criminal offense!" "It is a criminal offense also for the IRS to release the confidential donors of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Republican governor's Public Policy Council." Conservative organizations, whose donor information was released by the IRS... That's a criminal offense! Who's investigating that? And finally the lies...again - it is a felony to lie to a federal agency."
Yes, the IRS investigations are a sham. They're entirely phony. When you read of the sheer harassment conservative groups have subjected to it makes your blood boil.
“Since that filing in 2010, my private businesses, my nonprofit organizations, my family and I have been subjected to more than 15 instances of audit or inquiry by federal agencies,” she added. Engelbrecht’s personal and business tax returns were audited in 2011 – “each audit going back for a number of years.” Her business was inspected by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2012 when neither she nor her husband was present. She said she was later fined over $20,000 even though “the agency wrote that it found nothing serious or significant.”
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