The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel.
The information was transmitted in advance of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s meeting the same month with Justice Department officials about the possibility of using campaign-finance laws to prosecute certain nonprofit groups. E-mails between Lerner and Richard Pilger, the director of the Justice Department’s election-crimes branch, obtained through a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, show Lerner asking about the format in which the FBI preferred the data to be sent.
“This revelation that the IRS sent 1.1 million pages of nonprofit tax-return data — including confidential taxpayer information — to the FBI confirms suspicions that the IRS worked with the Justice Department to facilitate the potential investigation of nonprofit groups engaged in lawful political speech,” Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, and subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan wrote in a letter to IRS commissioner John Koskinen. The two lawmakers also raise questions about the timing of the meeting, just weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans recaptured a majority in the House of Representatives.
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2 comments:
So what.. what does it matter at this point? Does anyone think for a second that Holder will do anything go back to sleep... if you think that Boehner will do anything, go back to sleep, If you think anything is going to happen here, go back to sleep. King Barry rules and because of political correctness - nothing will be done!
There are laws for "we, the people" and there are laws for the masters of "we, the people".
Wait. It may be more correct to say there are NO laws for the masters.
Nixon was fried like chicken for using the IRS to get at his enemies.
Now, under Obama, the press can't get their lips off his ace long enough to take a sip of water, much less report and hold him accountable for ANY of his administration's illegal acts (and there have been dozens).
Keep cheering.
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