Posted on 10/25/2017 5:57:34 PM PDT by markomalley
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 massive document dump in a class-action lawsuit filed in Ohio by hundreds of conservative groups who were targeted for extra review and intrusive questioning.
It contradicts the IRS’s official stance over the years contending that conservative groups were wrongly scrutinized, but it was a result of their behavior, not their politics.
Instead, the April 1, 2011, email from Elizabeth C. Kastenberg, an official in the agency’s exempt organizations division, says it was explicitly the organizations’ politics that landed them on the target list.
“These cases are held back primarily because of their political party affiliation rather than specifically any political activities,” Ms. Kastenberg wrote in an alert to other IRS employees, including her supervisor.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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great pic
Kastenberg, Lerner, Same Kettle of Gefilte Fish. Both are Secular Progressive Capos.
She can still be charged but don’t hold your breath.
Good Question!
Thanks bitt.
Wow, really? We never suspected anything. Thanks markomalley.
One more reason the people of the United States don’t trust the New York Times or Washington Post... This story should have been top of fold headline years ago.
The press covered for democrat thugs - - they still do.
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