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The IRS scandal just got even worse
New York Post ^ | July 7, 2015 | Post Editorial Board

Posted on 07/08/2015 8:45:24 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

So the Obama IRS wasn’t just persecuting right-leaning nonprofits — it was out to prosecute them, too. And with the help of the Obama Department of Justice and FBI.

Via Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the watchdog group Judicial Watch just got evidence of the plot. A “DOJ Recap” on an Oct. 8, 2010, meeting tells how officials from the three agencies discussed “several possible theories to bring criminal charges under FEC law” against groups “posing” as tax-exempt nonprofits.

As part of the project, the IRS handed the FBI 21 computer disks with 1.23 million pages of confidential IRS returns from 113,000 nonprofit 501(c)(4) groups — nearly every 501(c)(4). This, though federal law generally bans the IRS from sharing such data.

The evidence shows “that the Obama IRS scandal is also an Obama DOJ and FBI scandal,” noted Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The FBI and Justice Department worked with Lois Lerner and the IRS to concoct some reason to put President Obama’s opponents in jail before his re-election. And this abuse resulted in the FBI’s illegally obtaining confidential taxpayer information.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: impeachnow; irs; judicialwatch; loislerner
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To: PrairieDawg

There are a couple of salient differences between the threat to impeach Nixon and the lawlessness of the 0bama regime. The first and obvious one is that Nixon was a Republican and therefore the democrat/communist media/academia propaganda complex was out to destroy him simply because of his political stripe.

Less noticed though is that America has changed in the meantime. The most relevant change is that in the 40 years since Watergate, the federal government of the United States has grown so large, so pervasive, so omnipotent and omnipresent in the daily lives of every American citizen, that it no longer recognizes any restraint in it’s power over the people. Nor do the various feudal dukedoms of the federal bureaucracy, each one having its own military, recognize any control or restraint from any other branch of government. The Rule of Law is dead, and we now have a government that no longer serves the people, but rules over them. The TEA Party would take away the power (and jobs) from the bureaucrats who comprise this all-powerful government. Therefore, the TEA Party is the enemy, and must be suppressed. And with the help of the democrat/communist media/academia propaganda complex, who willingly vilified the TEA Party at every turn, the government has done exactly that.

Hobbes would be proud. The Leviathan is here in a way he never dreamed.


21 posted on 07/08/2015 9:22:28 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

When do they start going to jail?


22 posted on 07/08/2015 9:27:01 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Brad from Tennessee

We live in an age of lawlessness and criminals. May Justice find them all.


23 posted on 07/08/2015 9:31:48 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Bttt.

5.56mm

24 posted on 07/08/2015 9:43:06 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Let me see -— Nixon was THREATENED with impeachment when it was “discovered” that he was using the IRS to investigate his “enemies” list?

Where are the Articles of Impeachment?

>crickets<


25 posted on 07/08/2015 9:48:46 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: I want the USA back

Has been FRom the get-go!


26 posted on 07/08/2015 9:50:55 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The list of IRS scandals keeps growing.


27 posted on 07/08/2015 9:54:03 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yeah, whatever. Congress is doing nothing about it so it is a moot point.


28 posted on 07/08/2015 10:00:47 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: uncitizen

Monday, nothing
Tuesday, nothing
Wednesday and Thursday nothing
Friday, for a change
a little more nothing
Saturday once more nothing
Sunday nothing
Monday nothing
Tuesday and Wednesday nothing
Thursday, for a change
a little more nothing
Friday once more nothing
Montik gornisht,
Dinstik Gornisht
Midwoch an Donnerstik gornisht
Fritik, far a noveneh gornisht pikveleh
Shabas nach a mool gornisht
Lunes nada
Martes nada
Miercoles y Jueves nada
Viernes, por cambia
un poco mas nada
Sabado otra vez nada
January nothing
February nothing
March and April nothing
May and June
a lot more nothing
July nothing


29 posted on 07/08/2015 10:05:17 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: ForYourChildren

“When do they start going to jail?” That will not happen.

The Negro Nazi party is in charge, and they won’t disparage their own people.


30 posted on 07/08/2015 10:08:33 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: ForYourChildren

“When do they start going to jail?” That will not happen.

The Negro Nazi party is in charge, and they won’t disparage their own people.


31 posted on 07/08/2015 10:09:20 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There’s nothing to see here comrades. Move on!

IMHO


32 posted on 07/08/2015 10:11:13 AM PDT by ripley
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To: buckalfa

Re: “The Chicago way. The Old Mayor Daily would be proud! “

Also the Republican Party way....

See nothing. Hear nothing. Say nothing. Do nothing.


33 posted on 07/08/2015 10:16:28 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Brad from Tennessee
the IRS handed the FBI 21 computer disks with 1.23 million pages of confidential IRS returns from 113,000 nonprofit 501(c)(4) groups — nearly every 501(c)(4). This, though federal law generally bans the IRS from sharing such data.

Federal law generally?

What about the 4th amendment and “no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. “

34 posted on 07/08/2015 10:39:13 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There is no doubt we live in a despotic tyrrany. What a disgrace.


35 posted on 07/08/2015 6:20:24 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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