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IRS Plan to Prosecute Obama’s Political Enemies -Documents Show FBI, Lerner Tried to ‘Concoct Some Reason’ to Jail Opponents
Former IRS tax-exempt chief Lois Lerner has refused to testify to Congress
Bob Unruh / WND
Judicial Watch has released documents obtained from the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service that confirm a strategy to prosecute conservatives who publicly oppose President Obama’s policies.
“These new documents show that the Obama IRS scandal is also an Obama DOJ and FBI scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The FBI and Justice Department worked with [IRS official] Lois Lerner and the IRS to concoct some reason to put President Obama’s opponents in jail before his re-election.”
Fitton said the “abuse resulted in the FBI’s illegally obtaining confidential taxpayer information.”
“How can the Justice Department and the FBI investigate the very scandal in which they are implicated?” he asked.
The internal documents uncovered by Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act request confirm the transfer of millions of pages of confidential taxpayer records from the IRS to the DOJ.
The IRS scandal has been in the headlines for several years, since it was revealed the agency selectively impeded the applications for tax-exempt status of conservative, Christian and tea party organizations.
Among the ploys was a demand to reveal the content of prayers and to curb statements on moral issues.
The scandal has been the subject of multiple congressional hearings, including two appearances by Lerner, who ran the tax-exempt division and twice has refused to answer Congress’ questions.
At one point, Lerner’s political bias was exposed in an internal email in which she called conservatives “a–holes” and “crazies.”
When the House of Representatives voted to find her in contempt of Congress and referred her to the DOJ for prosecution, the DOJ, which now is revealed to have played a role, refused to prosecute.
Several lawsuits are pending over the IRS campaign against conservatives.
The new report from Judicial Watch details an October 2010 meeting with Lerner, the DOJ and the FBI.
They were planning for “the possible criminal prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations,” Judicial Watch said.
Records also reveal the Obama IRS gave the FBI 21 computer disks with 1.25 million pages of IRS returns that are supposed to be confidential. They were from 113,000 nonprofit social 501(c)(4) groups, or, as Judicial Watch reported, “nearly every 501(c)(4) in the United States.”
That move, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has said, “violated federal tax law.”
Judicial Watch said the documents were made public through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/revealed-irs-plan-to-prosecute-obamas-political-enemies/
