During a House Oversight Committee hearing in February, True the Vote’s attorney Cleta Mitchell raised the possibility of coordination between the IRS and Cummings, stating: “[W]e’re going to try to figure out…if there was any staff of this committee that might have been involved in putting True the Vote on the radar screen of some of these Federal agencies.” Cummings replied that this was “absolutely incorrect and not true.”
But according to newly obtained emails, Cummings’ staff notified IRS employees that they were “about to launch an investigation similar to the one launched by Representative Peter Welch’s (D–Vt.) office.”( In March 2012, Welch and other Democrats suggested that the IRS investigate whether any 501(c)(4) organizations were “improperly engaged in political campaign activity.”)
Starting in October 2012, Cummings’ staff sent a series of letters to True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht, requesting information identical to IRS demands made earlier in the year. Further emails to IRS employees show Cummings’ staff requesting True the Vote’stax returns as well as asking for IRS employees to “look for material” on True the Vote. And the IRS employees responded nearly instantaneously (which is curious, given the fact that the IRSsat on applications by conservative groups for years).
And, unfortunately for True the Vote, the IRS wasn’t its only concern. As Englebrecht testifiedbefore the House Oversight Committee in February:
It seems that, with each passing day, the picture of the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups becomes clearer. Englebrecht has already filed an ethics complaint against Cummings and this latest revelation further demonstrates a coordinated effort by the government to harass and intimidate conservative groups such as True the Vote.
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/04/10/latest-irs-targeting-saga/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/emails_reveal_irs_collaboration_with_democrat_rep_elijah_cummings.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/emails_reveal_irs_collaboration_with_democrat_rep_elijah_cummings.html
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