When a police officer pulls you over for speeding, it is a lawful stop because you were breaking the law, even if it was only 1 mile an hour over. The police officer will be able to defend himself to a judge if need be, because he clocked the defendent's speed with a radar gun--the law is the law.
It has not been proven that Judicial Watch has broken the law, but yet, the IRS still audits them without any proof of criminal wrong-doing and treats them as if they were guilty before it has been proven so. You should be up in arms about your business being audited all the time. If I were you, I would demand to know what gives the IRS the Probable Cause to give them the authority to audit your intimate financial records.
That's what an audit will determine...... How else will they know if 'eww' followed all procedures without examining the filing in detail..... Kinda like 'eww' filing a FOIA request to get additional details...
What portion of JW's filing is in question and being audited? Has 'eww' let that out yet?
Yep, the tax laws are the only ones which basically require you to provide information which tends to incriminate you. It also requires you to do so without a showing of probable cause or with no warrant being issued for a search.
Each of these objections have been raised numerous times by any number of people. You and Judicial Watch are hardly the first.
But a word of warning--those objections are always rejected by the courts.
I don't think the IRS should ever audit anyone because of their politics. I don't think they should ever NOT audit because of politics, either. I think the Rainbow Coalition and Judicial Watch probably deserve a good auditing, because something doesn't look right based on what we know.
If JW was being audited because of its politics as alleged, that's wrong. But that does not equate to having a right NOT to be audited. I hope you can grasp the difference.