Recently revealed emails suggest that the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission assisted the IRS in its illegal targeting and harassment of conservative and Tea Party groups.
In other words, the DOJ did not find any evidence of wrongdoing at the IRS (or FEC) because the DOJ was an accomplice helping to hide the evidence.
Oversight chairman Darrell Issa said, “These e-mails are part of an overwhelming body of evidence that political pressure from prominent Democrats led to the targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.”
Part of their strategy was to hit Tea Party and conservative groups hard in an effort to shut them up and shut them down. In fact, if they had not been investigated, the DOJ would probably have implemented their plan to bring "trumped up criminal charges against Tea Party groups to intimidate them from exercising their Constitutional rights."
Facing each IRS attack are people like you and me -- people who are trying to rescue their country while they provide for their families and meet all the normal responsibilities and challenges of life. But taxpayer-funded bureaucrats are using the power of government to intimidate them and waste their time and money. That is more than a "smidgen of corruption."
Here is one leader of many who faced the ire of the IRS. You may remember her eloquent testimony to Congress...
In other words, the DOJ did not find any evidence of wrongdoing at the IRS (or FEC) because the DOJ was an accomplice helping to hide the evidence.
Oversight chairman Darrell Issa said, “These e-mails are part of an overwhelming body of evidence that political pressure from prominent Democrats led to the targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.”
Part of their strategy was to hit Tea Party and conservative groups hard in an effort to shut them up and shut them down. In fact, if they had not been investigated, the DOJ would probably have implemented their plan to bring "trumped up criminal charges against Tea Party groups to intimidate them from exercising their Constitutional rights."
Facing each IRS attack are people like you and me -- people who are trying to rescue their country while they provide for their families and meet all the normal responsibilities and challenges of life. But taxpayer-funded bureaucrats are using the power of government to intimidate them and waste their time and money. That is more than a "smidgen of corruption."
Here is one leader of many who faced the ire of the IRS. You may remember her eloquent testimony to Congress...
"I am not here today as a serf or a vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy. I am a born-free, American woman – wife, mother and citizen – and I’m telling my government that you have forgotten your place. It is not your responsibility to look out for my well-being or monitor my speech. It is not your right to assert an agenda. Your posts – the posts you occupy exist to preserve American liberty. You have sworn to perform that duty. And you have faltered.
"The abuses I will discuss today occurred on your watch. It is your responsibility to make sure it doesn’t happen again."
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