Lerner Has A Nasty Habit Of Going After Conservative Groups

It is becoming obvious that the hacks at the IRS are not new at going after Christian and conservative groups.  Lois Lerner is going to have to be fired and then imprisoned for impersonating a caring individual. She is a political hack operating in a "supposedly" non-partisan agency. It obviously is not.

The more we learn, the more we understand that there needs to be a re-education camp set up for IRS personnel. All staff, all administrators and all appointees must go through this program which will make sure they understand that using the agency for their own or their bosses personal political desires is verboten. 

Additionally, there should be a very strong whistle blower program established to root out those who would use the agency for political gains.

This is another pivotal point in the decline of the country. Using an agency to go after political foes is wrong and should not be accepted. Regardless of what Obama says, it was done on his watch, therefore he is responsible to make sure it is cleaned up and never happens again.

Unfortunately, this will not occur, as we believe that it was done with either the direct direction from the White House or with a "wink and a nod" approval of the President. Either way, this is not the way the most powerful agency in this country should be run.

Maybe if we go after those accused with the threat of major jail time and fines, we can get someone to be this Administration's John Dean. Can we hope?

Conservative Tom

IRS' Lerner Went After Christian Coalition While at FEC

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:04 PM

By Melanie Batley

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The woman who ran the IRS tax-exemption office — which now is accused of improperly targeting conservative groups — presided over a lengthy investigation of the Christian Coalition when she headed the enforcement office at the Federal Election Commission.

According to The Weekly Standard, some of the same techniques and procedures used by Lois Lerner in the FEC investigation of the coalition in the late 1990s were later used by IRS employees under Lerner to gather information from tea party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.



The FEC investigation cost the coalition hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend itself against allegations that it was coordinating issue-advocacy expenditures with a number of candidates running for federal offices. The nonprofit group was required to produce large numbers of documents, lists of donors, its legislative agenda, and even details about prayer meetings, the Standard reported this week.

Some conservative groups were asked by the IRS to do the same thing.

James Bopp Jr., lead counsel for the Christian Coalition at the time, told the Standard, "We felt we were being singled out, because when you handle a case with 81 depositions you have a pretty good argument you're getting special treatment. Eighty-one depositions! Eighty-one! From [coalition head] Ralph Reed's former part-time secretary to [former President] George H.W. Bush. It was mind-blowing."

The Christian Coalition ultimately was absolved of any wrongdoing, according to the Standard, because the FEC failed to produce proof to support the allegations.

Lerner was on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where she was called to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about her role in the IRS decision to target conservative groups for heightened scrutiny.

However, she refused to answer questions, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, while a Justice Department investigation of the targeting effort proceeds.




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