Obama Admin Wasn’t the only
One behind the IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups - Complaint Claims US Senators
as Complicit
On Monday the Center
for Competitive Politics filed a complaint with the Senate Select
Committee on Ethics against nine U.S. senators: for interfering with IRS tax
proceedings; for misusing official resources for campaign purposes; and for
improper conduct that reflects poorly upon the Senate. Attempting to use the
IRS to advance a partisan, electoral agenda is a fundamental assault on good
government. We believe these elected officials have staged such an assault.
The complaint documents how
the senators improperly interfered with IRS adjudications to further their
party's electoral prospects. They pressured the IRS to undertake income-tax
investigations of specific organizations, to find that specific organizations
were in violation of the law, to reach predetermined results pertaining to
pending applications by individual organizations for nonprofit status, and to
adopt specific regulatory interpretations and policies to further their
campaign goals.
Understand that Democrats
had attempted to silence their opposition through legislation. When that didn't
work, they started interfering in another branch of government to get them to
do their bidding. While they can question those agencies, they are definitely
violating ethics by attempting to impose themselves in the middle of tax
exemption status of American groups, be they conservative or liberal. But
according to the complaint, they were not just imposing themselves, they were
actually calling for investigations and seeking to prosecute conservative
organizations.
In May, we reported that
documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act indicated
that the White House was intimately involved in the IRS targeting. We also
know that the former head of the IRS, Lois Lerner, knew
of the targeting at least as far back as 2011, maybe even earlier, and that emails
have suggested that Lerner and a Federal Election Commission
attorney conspired to target conservative groups. Emails also reveal
that the collusion
even went on between Lerner and Eric Holder's Justice Department to jail the
political opponents of Barack Obama.
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