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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: DCPatriot on September 17, 2013, 08:00:38 pm
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IRS corruption update -- three key revelations from Lois Lerner’s emails
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It may be the most incriminating evidence yet.
Last week, while the world’s eyes were fixed upon the Obama administration’s fumbled response to the Syria crisis, new documents emerged in the allegedly “phony” IRS scandal.
These documents – emails from Lois Lerner, then Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS – were short, but highly damaging to the IRS’s persistent (and pernicious) spin.
The first email, a February 1, 2011, message to – among others – Obama donor and fellow IRS executive Holly Paz, proclaims: “Tea Party matter very dangerous. This could be the vehicle to go to court on the issue over whether Citizen’s United overturning the ban on corporate spending applies to tax exempt rules . . . Cincy should probably NOT have these cases – Holly please see what they have please [sic].”
The next key email, sent on July 10, 2012 (just as the 2012 election season was truly heating up) came in response to an article forwarded to Lerner noting Democratic complaints that anonymous donors could be influencing Senate races.
Lerner’s immediate response? “Perhaps the FEC will save the day.”
Save the day from what? Democratic losses? Constitutionally-protected free speech?
Though short, these emails tell us three key things:
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/irs-corruption-update-three-key-revelations-from-lois-lerners-emails/ (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/irs-corruption-update-three-key-revelations-from-lois-lerners-emails/)
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First:
Lois Lerner unquestionably misled the public when she stated in her initial, May 10, 2013, apology for IRS targeting that the scandal centered around “our line people in Cincinnati.” In reality, this was and is a Washington scandal, with senior IRS officials at the epicenter.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/irs-corruption-update-three-key-revelations-from-lois-lerners-emails/#ixzz2fCfhgdHK
Second:
key leaders at the IRS are highly partisan. Lerner’s May statement contains this howler: “They didn’t do this because of any political bias. They did this because they were working together.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/irs-corruption-update-three-key-revelations-from-lois-lerners-emails/#ixzz2fCfrhZUb
and Third:
it’s deeply discouraging to read the extent of Lerner’s hostility to the First Amendment. The Citizen’s United ruling, which she so obviously disdained, significantly expanded free speech rights and further protected political speech from government control – an evident nightmare for a partisan bureaucrat like Lerner.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/irs-corruption-update-three-key-revelations-from-lois-lerners-emails/#ixzz2fCfyrGyn