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Top Washington IRS Officials Knew About Targeting of “Tea Party” Groups Source: Judicial Watch (FBI) “302” documents revealing that top Washington IRS officials, including Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, knew that the agency was specifically targeting “Tea Party” and other conservative organizations two full years before disclosing it to Congress and the public. “They used names like Tea Party or Patriots and they selected cases simply because the applications had those names in the title." READ MORE

Background Notes from Judicial Watch

04/09/2015 Documents Reveal Lerner Knew Targeting Criteria of Nonprofit Groups ‘Might Raise Questions’ Source: Judicial Watch An email from former IRS official Lois Lerner indicates that she “understands why the IRS criteria” leading to the targeting of Tea Party and other opponents of the President Obama “might raise questions.” The documents show that Lerner was aware that Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) had concerns about the political nature of IRS targeting in February 2013. READ MORE 10/25/2017 IRS agent’s email says groups were targeted ‘primarily because of their political party affiliation’ Source: The Washington Times Lawyers think they have finally found the smoking gun in the IRS’s tea party targeting scandal: an email from an IRS agent to her supervisors alerting them that the agency was, in fact, singling out some groups’ applications for extreme scrutiny “primarily because of their political party affiliation.” The email was released last month as part of a class-action lawsuit filed. READ MORE 04/04/2017 Documents: IRS officials used “inappropriate political labels” Source: Judicial Watch Tom Fitton: “No wonder the Obama IRS has been hiding these records. The new smoking-gun documents contain admissions by the Obama IRS that it inappropriately targeted conservative groups. But the records also show that the abuse continued – as the Obama IRS tried to force conservative applicants to give up their First Amendment rights in order to finally get their applications granted.” READ MORE

Daywatch Updates

Inside Judicial Watch News Brief: The Manafort Indictment In this special edition of "Inside Judicial Watch," Carter Clews, JW director of communications, sat down with Judicial Watch Director of Public Affairs Jill Farrell to discuss the recent indictment of Trump associate Paul Manafort in the ongoing Trump/Russia investigation. Then, Jill provides some background on the Uranium One scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the Russians as well as the infamous Trump dossier. READ MORE

Phoenix Becomes Illegal Alien Sanctuary after Leftist Group Orders it in Private Meeting with Police Chief Arizona’s largest city recently became a sanctuary for illegal aliens after its police chief held a private meeting with a leftist group that demanded a change in immigration enforcement policies, records obtained by Judicial Watch show. The closed-door session between Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Will Goana, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona, occurred just weeks before the Phoenix Police Department quietly implemented a new policy banning officers from contacting the feds after arresting an illegal alien and forbidding them from asking about suspects’ immigration status. READ MORE

Media Ignores Fed Lawsuit by Dems Accusing DNC, Wasserman Schultz of Fraud The mainstream media is conspicuously ignoring a newsworthy class-action lawsuit accusing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Florida congresswoman—Debbie Wasserman Schultz—who chaired it of fraud for skewing the party’s primaries to benefit Hillary Clinton. The drama is playing out in a south Florida federal court. READ MORE