New emails show IRS stalled criminal probe of targeting

[Valin]

Power Line:

Paul Mirengoff

February 9, 2015

 

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch show that the IRS stalled a criminal investigation into its practice of targeting conservative groups. IRS delayed granting permission to an agency employee to meet with investigators, despite the employee’s eagerness to testify.

 

The employee’s attorney expressed his frustration with the IRS’s delay to the Department of Justice on June 12, 2013, saying “we find it amazing that [iRS attorneys] didn’t immediately respond giving us the green light to meet with you.” The DOJ lawyer appeared to share the concern. He wrote back: “Let’s talk in a.m. if they don’t get back to you.”

 

Nonetheless, it was another month before the employee met with two Justice Department prosecutors, two FBI officials, and an investigator from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The meeting appears to have occurred on July 11.

 

Of the two Justice Department attorneys present, one apparently was from the Public Integrity Section and one was from the Civil Rights Division. The Public Integrity previously has been tied to an effort to work with the Obama IRS against the very groups and individuals critical of the Obama administration and the president’s reelection that the IRS has admitted to illicitly targeting.

 

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[Cyber_Liberty]

IRS "stalling?" Where's my picture of the Etrade baby with the "Shocked!" face....

[Valin]

@Cyber_Liberty

Oh it get better...better actually meaning worse.

Feds won’t release IRS targeting documents
Bob Cusack
02/10/15 06:00 AM EST

The Obama administration is refusing to publicly release more than 500 documents on the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups.
Twenty months after the IRS scandal broke, there are still many unanswered questions about who was spearheading the agency’s scrutiny of conservative-leaning organizations.

he Hill sought access to government documents that might provide a glimpse of the decision-making through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The Hill asked for 2013 emails and other correspondence between the IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The request specifically sought emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner and Treasury officials, including Secretary Jack Lew, while the inspector general was working on its explosive May 2013 report that the IRS used “inappropriate criteria” to review the political activities of tax-exempt groups.

TIGTA opted not to release any of the 512 documents covered by the request, citing various exemptions in the law. The Hill recently appealed the FOIA decision, but TIGTA denied the appeal. TIGTA also declined to comment for this article.

Will anyone be charged?


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That was then....this is now.....or "Words, Just Words".

[Cyber_Liberty]

Oh sure. I fully expect them to stall in every way possible, requiring lawsuits every step of the way. This is a clock that can be run out. Even if everything came out today, the effect of the Rat's poison will be called "old news" by the likes of Brian Williams.

 

"Phony scandal."

[Valin]