No wonder Lois Lerner keeps taking the 5th... SHE KNEW! According to the conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch, email exchanges between Lerner and Nikole C. Flax, the Chief of Staff to then-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller, reveal there were discussions about possible prosecution of tax-exempt groups that were believed to have “lied” about political activities. ... Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit initiated after the IRS failed to respond to their inquiry, reports Lerner then had IRS senior technical adviser Nancy Marks deal with the scheduling. ... Finally, Judicial Watch reports that in emails after Lerner’s May 10 speech, a former Cincinnati program manager emailed Lerner livid about the fact that she had blamed “low-level” employees in the Cincinnati office for the targeting. ... Last week, the Ways and Means Committee voted to refer Lerner to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. A day earlier the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress. Click through to read more and see the contents of the emails...
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:52:26 +0000
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