Thursday, December 11, 2014
The IRS Scandal, Day 581
Forbes: Obama Justice Department Was Involved In IRS Targeting, Lerner Emails Reveal, by Robert W. Wood:
Sadly, the 18 month investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups isn’t over, and it may be worse than anyone thought. 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. ...
[I]t is getting harder and harder to simply accept President Obama’s ‘no smidgen of corruption’ remark made to Fox News in February, no matter how sincere and forthright his delivery.
- Headlines & Global News: Lois Lerner Met With DOJ Prosecutors Before 2010 Elections, Bombshell Document Finds Reveal More About IRS Targeting
- The IRS Scandal, Day 580 (Dec. 10, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 579 (Dec. 9, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 578 (Dec. 8, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 577 (Dec. 7, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 576 (Dec. 6, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 575 (Dec. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 574 (Dec. 4, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 573 (Dec. 3, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 572 (Dec. 2, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 571 (Dec. 1, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 570 (Nov. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 569 (Nov. 29, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 568 (Nov. 28, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 567 (Nov. 27, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 566 (Nov. 26, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 565 (Nov. 25, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 564 (Nov 24, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 563 (Nov. 23, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 562 (Nov. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 561 (Nov. 21, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 560 (Nov. 20, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 559 (Nov. 19, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 558 (Nov. 18, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 557 (Nov. 17, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 556 (Nov. 16, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 555 (Nov. 15, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 553 (Nov. 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 552 (Nov. 12, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 551 (Nov. 11, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 550 (Nov. 10, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 549 (Nov. 9, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 542 (Nov. 2, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 541 (Nov. 1, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 540 (Oct. 31, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 531 (Oct. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 530 (Oct. 21, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 529 (Oct. 20, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 521 (Oct. 12, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 520 (Oct. 11, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 512 (Oct. 3, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 511 (Oct. 2, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 510 (Oct. 1, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 509 (Sept. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 508 (Sept. 29, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 506 (Sept. 27, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 505 (Sept. 26, 2014)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 503 (Sept. 24, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 502 (Sept. 23, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 501 (Sept. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 401-500 (June 14, 2014 - Sept. 21,2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 301-400 (Mar. 6, 2014 - June 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 201-300 (Nov. 26, 2013 - Mar. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 101-200 (Aug. 18, 2013 - Nov. 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 1-100 (May 10, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/12/the-irs-scandal-4.html
"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."
And the day before she planted a question in a press conference, which was after the IG report was finished and the actions were claimed to have been stopped.
Posted by: wodun | Dec 11, 2014 5:29:47 PM