no charges in IRS investigation?

[B-Man]

Reminder:

 

 

 

Lois Lerner And Fellow IRS Official Announced Targeting At 2010 Conference Before Both Of Their Emails Went Missing.

 

 

 

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[3rdnlng]

There is a nice chart at the link connecting all of the players in the scandal. Also the rest of the timeline.

 

 

 

http://www.judicialwatch.org/irs-anatomy/

 

IRS Scandal Timeline

Credit: Raquel DeSouza, Miranda Watson & the Investigative Department

2009

February 3- The FEC asks the IRS if they have granted tax exempt status to Tea Party groups. Lois Lerner, former Director of the IRS Tax Exempt Division, “gave the FEC the tax returns of the groups, including income, expenditures and staff pay” on conservative groups American Future Fund and American Issues Project. (Bedard, P.,Oct. 13, 2013. IRS’ Lois Lerner gave confidential tea party tax info to FEC, violating law. Washington Examiner. Retrieved from http://washingtonexaminer.com/irs-lois-lerner-gave-confidential-tea-party-tax-info-to-fec-violating-law/article/2538263)

2010

March 10- IRS starts targeting on conservative groups applying for 501©(4) non-profit, tax exempt status. (Erb, K. P, May 7, 2014. Updated: Timeline of IRS tax exempt organization scandal. Forbes. Retrieved fromhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/07/updated-timeline-of-irs-tax-exempt-organization-scandal/)

July 6 2010- Holly Paz emailed Steven Grodnitzky, an attorney in the IRS’ Exempt Organization Technical Unit, in order to inform him about how her department of the IRS has been “handling Tea Party applications in the last few months” and to notify other top IRS officials of the same information. Grodnitzky replied by saying:

“EOT is working the Tea party applications in coordination with Cindy, IRS Exempt Organization Unit in Cincinnati. We are developing a few applications here in DC and providing copies of our development letters with the agent to use as examples in the development of their cases. Chip Hull [another lawyer in IRS headquarters] is working these cases in EOT and working with the agent in Cincy, so any communication should include him as well. Because the Tea party applications are the subject of an SCR [sensitive Case Report], we cannot resolve any of the cases without coordinating with Rob [believed to be Rob Choi, then the director of the IRS’ Rulings and Agreements].” (Fitton, T. May 19, 2014. Judicial Watch’s IRS investigation leads directly to Washington. BreitBart. Retrieved from http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/19/Judicial-Watch-s-IRS-Investigation-Leads-Directly-to- Washington)

[B-Man]

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE:

 

What Lois Lerner Told Her IRS Colleagues Not To Say In Emails. ........................................ Consciousness of guilt.

 

 

 

 

 

IRS COMMISSIONER: Hey, there’s absolutely nothing suspicious about Lois Lerner asking if Instant Messaging is searchable.

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE:

 

What Lois Lerner Told Her IRS Colleagues Not To Say In Emails. ........................................ Consciousness of guilt.

 

 

 

 

 

IRS COMMISSIONER: Hey, there’s absolutely nothing suspicious about Lois Lerner asking if Instant Messaging is searchable.

 

Obama has FUBAR'ed everything so badly, you have to figure at this point he WISHES the country was just talking about how he used to IRS to silence opposition.

[DC Tom]

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE:

 

What Lois Lerner Told Her IRS Colleagues Not To Say In Emails. ........................................ Consciousness of guilt.

 

 

I've had email exchanges similar to that. I'm sure I have a couple reminders in my inbox to the effect of "remember: don't put anything in an email that you wouldn't want Congress to read." (So my email signature includes "!@#$ you, Nancy Pelosi!")

 

The content of that exchange isn't damning, in and of itself...

 

 

IRS COMMISSIONER: Hey, there’s absolutely nothing suspicious about Lois Lerner asking if Instant Messaging is searchable.

 

...not damning, but given the timing, certainly suspicious. The IRS Commissioner is being an ass.

[3rdnlng]

http://www.theblaze....r-for-contempt/

 

RESOLUTION

Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress

Whereas Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, has been found to be in contempt of Congress for willfully and intentionally refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, thereby obstructing the Congress in the lawful exercise of its constitutionally mandated legislative powers; and,

Whereas such behavior is an insult to the dignity of the House of Representatives, an attack upon the integrity of its proceedings, works violence upon the rights of the House collectively, and therefore implicates the long-recognized inherent power of the House to punish and commit for contempt, privileged under the Constitution; and,

Whereas recent history with similarly contumacious and insolent witnesses such as Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, strongly suggests that the present statutory judicial rubric set up to punish and reform such insubordinate and obstructionist witnesses would be ineffective in this case, as it is likely that the US Attorney for the District of Columbia would refuse to perform his lawful duty to bring the offending contemnor Lerner before a Grand Jury and prosecute the same for her misconduct pursuant to section 104 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 194) and section 102 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 192); and,

Whereas the executive and judicial branches’ prolonged and dawdling failure to prosecute Attorney General Holder’s insolent contempt of the 112th Congress strongly suggests that a like proceeding against contemnor Lerner would be similarly futile, and the threat of such prosecution has clearly been insufficient to encourage contemnor Lerner to be honest and candid with the Congress regarding the heinous actions of the Internal Revenue Service;

 

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Speaker issue his warrant, directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, commanding him to arrest and take into custody forthwith, wherever to be found, the body of Lois G. Lerner, and bring her to the bar of the House without delay to answer to the charge of contempt of its authority, breach of its privileges, and gross and wanton insult to the integrity of its proceedings, and in the meantime keep the body of Lerner in his custody in the common jail of the District of Columbia, subject to the further order of the House. While in custody, Lerner shall enjoy no special privileges beyond those extended to her fellow inmates, shall not access any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or family.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2014 by 3rdnlng

[DC Tom]

http://www.theblaze....r-for-contempt/

 

RESOLUTION

Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress

Whereas Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, has been found to be in contempt of Congress for willfully and intentionally refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, thereby obstructing the Congress in the lawful exercise of its constitutionally mandated legislative powers; and,

Whereas such behavior is an insult to the dignity of the House of Representatives, an attack upon the integrity of its proceedings, works violence upon the rights of the House collectively, and therefore implicates the long-recognized inherent power of the House to punish and commit for contempt, privileged under the Constitution; and,

Whereas recent history with similarly contumacious and insolent witnesses such as Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, strongly suggests that the present statutory judicial rubric set up to punish and reform such insubordinate and obstructionist witnesses would be ineffective in this case, as it is likely that the US Attorney for the District of Columbia would refuse to perform his lawful duty to bring the offending contemnor Lerner before a Grand Jury and prosecute the same for her misconduct pursuant to section 104 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 194) and section 102 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 192); and,

Whereas the executive and judicial branches’ prolonged and dawdling failure to prosecute Attorney General Holder’s insolent contempt of the 112th Congress strongly suggests that a like proceeding against contemnor Lerner would be similarly futile, and the threat of such prosecution has clearly been insufficient to encourage contemnor Lerner to be honest and candid with the Congress regarding the heinous actions of the Internal Revenue Service;

 

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Speaker issue his warrant, directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, commanding him to arrest and take into custody forthwith, wherever to be found, the body of Lois G. Lerner, and bring her to the bar of the House without delay to answer to the charge of contempt of its authority, breach of its privileges, and gross and wanton insult to the integrity of its proceedings, and in the meantime keep the body of Lerner in his custody in the common jail of the District of Columbia, subject to the further order of the House. While in custody, Lerner shall enjoy no special privileges beyond those extended to her fellow inmates, shall not access any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favorite part of that is the Democratic morons being hoist with their own petard.

[B-Man]

My favorite part of that is the Democratic morons being hoist with their own petard.

 

 

Pelosi, CNN and the New York Times all endorsed the House's power to arrest those in contempt of Congress. I hope they'll be consistent.

 

 

 

In fact, Nancy Pelosi, just three weeks ago said: “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day (for contempt)...There’s a prison here in the Capitol."

 

So certainly she can't complain...................right ?

 

 

 

CNN endorses the House's power to arrest, going so far in 2008 as to televise potential locations where Rove would be jailed for contempt.

 

NY Times: "From the Republic’s earliest days Congress has had the right to hold recalcitrant witnesses in contempt - and even imprison them"

 

 

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[B-Man]

More Than a Smidgen

by Stephen F. Hayes

 

Original Article

 

The facts are simple. The IRS systematically targeted conservative and Tea Party groups after their activism proved decisive in the 2010 midterm elections—Obama’s famous “shellacking.” The effects of this targeting were widespread. Some Tea Party groups were neutered in the months before the 2012 presidential election.

 

Few of the explanations or justifications of this targeting provided by IRS leaders and Obama administration officials have held up. IRS officials at first denied that any targeting had taken place. That was false. They later claimed that the targeting had involved only low-level employees in the Cincinnati office. That was false. They argued that conservative groups weren’t singled out, that progressive groups were subject to the same level of scrutiny. That was false. They argued that the IRS has complied with all requests for information from Congress. That was false.

 

 

more at link:

[3rdnlng]

April is not worthy of a thread of her own, so I'll post this here:

 

http://conservative-...rd-drive-crash/

 

Another day, another Obama administration hard-drive crash!

It seems like it is a daily occurrence in the Obama administration that a high profile, anti-Conservative bureaucrat happens to experience a computer crash right in the middle of a criminal investigation.

First, it was Lois Lerner, the bureaucrat at the heart of the IRS scandal. Her computer “crashed” within days of the IRS learning it was under investigation for targeting Conservative groups.

Then, we learned that computers in the Environmental Protection Agency had also mysteriously “crashed.” When the EPA was under investigation by Congress, the agency was unable to hand over crucial documents because it too experienced a catastrophic computer “crash.”

Now, we have the story of April Sands, a bureaucrat in the Federal Elections Commission who used to work alongside Lois Lerner. She has been accused of illegally promoting Barack Obama and the Democratic Party while she was supposedly on the job.

This woman is pure scum. When Lois Lerner worked at the Federal Elections Commission, April Sands worked as her deputy. She was a lawyer in the FEC but resigned when it became known she was using ‘company time’ to campaign for President Obama and Congressional Democrats. This is a woman who used her government-issue computer to post hateful political posts on Twitter:

Edited July 16, 2014 by 3rdnlng

[B-Man]

As a part of a settlement agreement with the [Office of Special Counsel], Ms. [April] Sands admitted to violating the Hatch Act by soliciting political contributions via Twitter, conducting political activity through her Twitter account, and participating in a political discussion ‘via webcam from an FEC conference room . . . while on duty,’” Issa and Jordan write in their letter.

 

“The FEC [Office of Inspector General] sought to pursue criminal charges stemming from Ms. Sands’s solicitation of political contributions while on duty inside the FEC building.

 

However, the FEC recycled Ms. Sands’s hard drive before the OIG was able to seize it, and therefore the OIG was unable to show that Ms. Sands’s solicitations and political activity were done from an FEC computer.

 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia thereafter declined criminal prosecution.

 

 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/07/15/i-dont-understand-how-anyone-but-straight-white-men-can-vote-republican-n1862137

 

 

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Sounds familiar,.........................

[Tiberius]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-when-darrell-issa-goes-fishing/2014/07/15/6dbf3b48-0c5d-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html?hpid=z2

 

Sigh, and nothing to show for it...

[Alaska Darin]

And yet some people still don't understand the reason to limit the power of government...

[Azalin]

And yet some people still don't understand the reason to limit the power of government...

 

they do, but only as it applies to republicans.

[DC Tom]

they do, but only as it applies to republicans.

 

No, quite a few people believe government should be intrusive to the benefit of everyone.

 

Which is when I always point out **** like this and say "Do you want THIS running your health care system?" Or just talk about the things I see on a daily basis.

[Azalin]

No, quite a few people believe government should be intrusive to the benefit of everyone.

 

 

no argument there. Darin said 'some', presumably referring specifically to blind partisans who will excuse any kind of abuse of power perpetrated by their own 'side'. that's what I was agreeing with, anyway. that aside, your point is, unfortunately, absolutely correct.

[B-Man]

Department of Justice: We Heard About IRS Missing Emails On The News

 

James Cole, deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice, testified Thursday that the DOJ heard about the destruction of IRS officials’ emails in the news, even though DOJ has formally been investigating the IRS for more than a year.

 

“I think we learned about it after that, from press accounts,” Cole told House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan at a hearing Thursday on the DOJ’s response to the wave of computer crashes at the IRS that wiped out seven different employees’ hard drives.

 

DOJ has allegedly been conducting a widely-mocked investigation into the IRS conservative targeting scandal for more than a year, and recently announced that a new investigation is underway into the IRS missing emails.

 

“So you actually read about it in the press and nobody in the IRS ever went to the Justice Department to give you a heads-up, knowing you were conducting the investigation that some evidence may have been destroyed?,” Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis ventured.

 

“Not before the 13th of June,” Cole replied.

 

Cole confirmed at the hearing that DOJ is now “looking into” the IRS commissioner’s delayed response in the IRS emails case.

President Obama previously said that he heard about the Department of Veterans Affairs deadly wait list scandal on the news. He also originally said that he heard about the IRS targeting scandal on the news “along with most of you.”

 

 

Read more: http://dailycaller.c.../#ixzz37pL915pA

[Nanker]

It's the worst Justice Department we've ever had. They spoke with the government people who they were investigating BEFORE ever contating the citizens whose rights were being violated. They still haven't contacted some of them probably because they're convinced by the outcome has to fit their preconceived ideas. The same thing was done wrt Benghazi. The FBI didn't go near that place for well over a year after Ambassador Stevens was raped and murdered.

 

But this administration regime can't face up to their failures. The media was all over Bush for the Pat Tillman friendly fire disaster and the Abu Ghrab fiasco but they're nowhere to be found for the last six years.

 

It would be bittersweet to see a republican elected President with a majority in both houses and see them ramrod their agenda through, and then use the full coercive powers of the federal government to persecute their political foes like the current child tyrant has.

[3rdnlng]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/irs-experts-lois-lerner-hard-drive-was-just-scratched-not-damaged-beyond-recovery/article/2551162

 

op IRS officials told congressional investigators that Lois Lerner's hard drive -- the one containing emails that could shed light on the IRS targeting scandal -- was irreparably damaged before it was destroyed completely in 2011. But now, investigators have had a chance to talk to the technical experts inside the IRS who actually examined Lerner's computer, and the experts say the hard drive in question was actually just "scratched," and that most of the data on it was recoverable.

The IRS computer experts also told the committee that they had recommended seeking outside help in recovering the data from Lerner's computer — something IRS management declined to do.

 

The revelation has increased the sense among Republicans on Capitol Hill that they're being jerked around by the IRS. "It is unbelievable that we cannot get a simple, straight answer from the IRS about this hard drive," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Campsaid in a statement Tuesday. "The committee was told no data was recoverable and the physical drive was recycled and potentially shredded. To now learn that the hard drive was only scratched, yet the IRS refused to utilize outside experts to recover the data, raises more questions about potential criminal wrong doing at the IRS."

[3rdnlng]

More Lois Lerner BS:

 

http://www.dailymail...nvestigate.html

 

 

Former senior IRS official Lois Lerner had deeply held political biases while she was in a position of authority, according to Republican lawmakers who unveiled emails on Wednesday showing her referring to conservatives as 'crazies' and 'a**holes.'

Michigan Rep. Dave Camp, who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder to demand what he called 'a serious investigation' – something he said has been lacking.

Camp wants Holder to appoint an outside special counsel to probe the culture of the IRS and explain why hundreds of conservative groups were subjected to intrusive questioning and years-long delays when they applied for nonprofit tax benefits – steps that were not taken against liberal organizations.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz390yAuDvt

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Edited July 31, 2014 by 3rdnlng