The IRS, FEC collusion against the Tea Party
Joel Pollack:
The collusion between the IRS and the FEC suggest the attacks on the Tea Party were much wider than previously reported and likely continue to this day as the media continues to assault the organization after the government shutdown. The attack on the conservative groups is McCarth like and goes much deeper than the acts of the former Senator.
The case of the person who leaked information about the donors to National Organization for Marriage is also perverse, because the law that is meant to protect people from such leaks is being used as a shield for the leaker. That tells you something about the lack of integrity of the Obama administration.
Two new developments have severe implications for the IRS scandal.
The watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Thursday that it had obtained emails showing that former IRS official Lois Lerner gave protected information to the Federal Elections Commission.There is more.
Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee said it had identified the IRS agent who leaked National Organization for Marriage donors to gay rights activists.
Judicial Watch obtained the emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Aug. 9. They purport to show Lerner, who led the IRS Exempt Organizations division, promising full cooperation with an FEC attorney who was seeking information about the tax-exempt applications of two conservative groups, the American Future Fund (AFF) and the American Issues Project (AIP), as well as AIP's predecessor groups.
Lerner then sent "detailed, confidential information about the organizations" to the FEC, according to Judicial Watch, including tax returns and requests for exempt recognition forms.
"Under Section 6013 of the Internal Revenue Code, it is a felony for an IRS official to disclose either 'return information' or 'taxpayer return information,' even to another government agency," Judicial Watch said in a press statement.
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The collusion between the IRS and the FEC suggest the attacks on the Tea Party were much wider than previously reported and likely continue to this day as the media continues to assault the organization after the government shutdown. The attack on the conservative groups is McCarth like and goes much deeper than the acts of the former Senator.
The case of the person who leaked information about the donors to National Organization for Marriage is also perverse, because the law that is meant to protect people from such leaks is being used as a shield for the leaker. That tells you something about the lack of integrity of the Obama administration.
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