Mathew Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action
Breaking news about newly-released emails in the IRS targeting scandal is shaking Washington, DC.
Lois
Lerner, other IRS officials, and Department of Justice (DOJ) directors
are now implicated as having been complicit in conspiring to target
conservative 501(c)(4) groups with trumped up criminal charges.
Please see my important update below on this explosive, unfolding scandal – Mat.
Conservatives,
Emails obtained by legal watchdog group Judicial Watch
– and now reported on by many prominent news agencies – reveal there
was coordination between former IRS executive Lois Lerner, other IRS
operatives, and the DOJ in exploring criminal charges against 501(c)(4)
organizations they wanted to suppress.
As reported by Fox News…
“In
a May 2013 email, Lerner responded to a Justice Department inquiry
about whether tax-exempt groups could be criminally prosecuted for lying
about political activity.
‘I
got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch
at DOJ,’ Lerner reportedly wrote to the office of Steven Miller, the
agency’s acting director at the time. ‘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.’
Nikole
C. Flax, Miller’s chief of staff, responded: ‘I think we should do it –
also need to include CI [Criminal Investigation Division], which we can
help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to FEC. Does it make sense
to consider including them in this or keep it separate?’”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said this in releasing the incriminating emails…
“These
new emails show that the day before she broke the news of the IRS
scandal, Lois Lerner was talking to a top Obama Justice Department
official about whether the DOJ could prosecute the very same
organizations that the IRS had already improperly targeted.”
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said in a statement…
“The
release of new documents underscores the political nature of IRS Tea
Party targeting and the extent to which supposed apolitical officials
took direction from elected Democrats. These e-mails are part of an
overwhelming body of evidence that political pressure from prominent
Democrats led to the targeting of Americans for their political
beliefs.”
++President
Obama’s claim there was “not a smidgen of corruption” has now been
shown to be widespread corruption and coordination between his
administration’s agencies.
The power to intimidate through the IRS and other federal agencies has become the game plan under the Obama White House.
We
cannot not sit idly by and watch as President Obama and other lawless
leaders use the IRS and other federal agencies as their brute squads to
destroy political adversaries!
The United States Senate must join the House in taking action to force the IRS to stop targeting conservatives!
We are now calling on the Senate to pass S.2011, the Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act. The bill is locked away in the Democrat-controlled Senate Committee on Finance: Taxation and IRS Oversight.
I
am asking America’s patriots to rise to this challenge. Please, fax the
Senate and demand that they take action to stop the implementation of
these new IRS regulations!
We
will hold the faxes until Congress reconvenes in a few more days, which
means their offices will be flooded with tens of thousands of messages
when they return!
In
appreciation of your gift of $20, Liberty Counsel Action's Fax Barrage
will hold – then deliver with thousands of others – your faxes to your
two senators, your representative, as well as the 15 members of the
Senate Committee on Finance: Taxation and IRS Oversight (up to 18 faxes
in all).
Go here to leverage your personal impact in this crucial battle:
++The IRS scandal is dramatically widening in scope.
Lois
Lerner said in an email to IRS staff, “There are several groups of
folks from the FEC [Federal Election Commission] world that are pushing
tax fraud prosecution for c4s.”
Congressman
Sheldon Whitehouse asked why the IRS and DOJ “have not prosecuted
501(c)(4) groups that have seemingly made false statements about their
political activities.”
These
disclosures come on the heels of other emails previously obtained which
reveal that Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) may have been complicit
in the targeting – or in sending other federal agencies in to harass,
audit, and monitor select 501(c)(4) groups.
In
February, Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, told
Congress that she was subjected to more than fifteen audits and
inquiries from the ATF, IRS, FBI, and other agencies following her
submission to the IRS for a 501(c)(4) status!
Cummings
is the Ranking Member the House Government Reform and Oversight
Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa’s committee, which has been on the
forefront of the IRS targeting investigation.
In
another major development, Lois Lerner, who twice refused to testify
before a congressional panel of inquiry, may be charged with Contempt of
Congress. The measure, approved by committee, will now go to the full
House for a vote.
++We must protect our rights against a lawless administration as the 2014 elections draw near!
I cannot emphasize this point highly enough…
The
politicization of federal agencies presents a clear and present danger
to the free speech rights and the freedom of association of every
American citizen.
Please go here NOW to be part of this critical movement to Stop the IRS War on Conservatives... We will hold your faxes until Congress reconvenes, then release them in an unprecedented Fax barrage:
God bless you for your thoughtful, active patriotism!
Mathew Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action
P.S. We must not allow the intimidation of the IRS to shut us down and silence us during this election year!
Please be sure to fax the Senate calling for the passage of S.2011. We want to welcome Congress back to a firestorm of demands that they take effective action to STOP this abuse:
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