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It’s becoming more and more clear exactly why Lois Lerner refuses to
testify and answer questions regarding the IRS scandal of targeting and
harassing Tea Party and other conservative groups. It is also clear why
the IRS commissioner made the claim that it would take years to produce
the emails surrounding this scandal. According to a report by Townhall,
the collusion between Democrats, the Obama IRS and the Obama DOJ goes
even deeper than initially thought and emails obtained by Judicial Watch
shows the extreme coordination between these groups in the targeting of
Tea Party and other conservative groups.
Lois Lerner sent the following email to the Obama Department of Justice in May 2013.
“I
got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch
at DOJ … He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s [sic] could talk to
about Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together
false statement cases about applicants who “lied” on their 1024s
–saying they weren’t planning on doing political activity, and then
turning around and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is
feeling like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at
IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any
damage this might do to IRS programs. I told him that sounded like we
might need several folks from IRS,” Lerner wrote in a May 8, 2013 email to former Nikole C. Flax, who was former-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller’s chief of staff.
“I
think we should do it – also need to include CI [Criminal Investigation
Division], which we can help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to
FEC. Does it make sense to consider including them in this or keep it
separate?” Flax responded on May 9, 2013.
After
this email exchange, Lerner handed things off to Senior Technical
Adviser and Attorney Nancy Marks, who was in charge of setting up a
meeting with DOJ.
This news follows the revelation that the second ranking member in the House Oversight Committee,
Democrat Elijah Cummings,
worked in collusion with the IRS in attacking True the Vote, a group
out of Houston who works against voter fraud. Cummings had earlier
denied any coordination with the IRS, but that denial has been proven to
be a lie.
As this news breaks, Lois Lerner is waiting to see if
the House will hold her in contempt after the House Oversight Committee
voted to hold her in contempt.
TPNN
also previously reported that Lerner “referred to the Justice
Department by the House Ways and Means Committee for potential
prosecution of her actions. If convicted of the crimes for which she has
been accused, she could face 11 years in prison.”
Given the
collusion between the Obama Department of InJustice and Lerner in
relation to this IRS scandal and attack against Tea Party and
conservative groups, many do not believe that Eric Holder will act
against her. His refusal to appoint a private and independent
investigator into this scandal has been met with criticism from those on
the right side of the aisle.
Despite this mounting evidence of
collusion between Democrats, the IRS, and the DOJ, President Obama
claimed during an interview on Super Bowl Sunday that there was not a
smidgen of corruption in regards to the matter.
