As if Americans needed any more reasons to dislike Lois Lerner and the IRS, newly released emails proving she met with the Department of Justice to discuss taking criminal action against conservative groups will surely add to the list.
Once you see this, you’ll wonder why this woman isn’t already behind bars.
From Forbes:
A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had surely hoped would never surface. The picture it reveals isn’t pretty. The documents prove that Lois Lerner met with DOJ’s Election Crimes Division a month before the 2010 elections.
It has to be embarrassing to the DOJ, which may not be the most impartial one to be investigating the IRS. In fact, the DOJ withheld over 800 pages of Lerner documents citing “taxpayer privacy” and “deliberative privilege.” Yet these internal DOJ documents show Ms. Lerner was talking to DOJ officials about prosecuting tax-exempt entities (yes, criminally!) two years before the IRS conceded there was inappropriate targeting.
Documents from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS show that Ms. Lerner asked the DOJ whether tax-exempt entities could be criminally prosecuted. This May 8, 2013 email by Ms. Lerner went to Nikole C. Flax, Chief of Staff to Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller, who would later be fired by President Obama:
“I got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ … He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s [sic] could talk to about Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together false statement cases about applicants who “lied” on their 1024s–saying they weren’t planning on doing political activity, and then turning around and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any damage this might do to IRS programs. I told him that sounded like we might need several folks from IRS…”
Evidence continues to pile up that proves Lois Lerner and others in the DOJ and Obama administration were involved in illegally targeting conservatives in an attempt to silence their political opposition.
These emails prove that a diabolical plot was hatched by folks in the government to purposefully violate the First Amendment rights of American citizens in a rather egregious manner.
Essentially, they used the IRS as a political weapon.
The whole reason the First Amendment exists is to prevent the government from silencing political dissent against those in power. The very thing these big government cronies have done proves why this part of the Bill of Rights is absolutely necessary.
Lerner and everyone involved in this scheme needs to be locked up behind bars. Hopefully, as the investigation continues, all of the folks who participated in the illegal targeting–no matter how high they are up the food chain–will be brought to justice.
Read more at http://www.youngcons.com/huge-news-irs-scandal-lois-lerner-emails/#fhz1xuB7yCX18ZVF.99
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