{"id":26345,"date":"2015-08-25T09:11:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26345"},"modified":"2015-08-25T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:11:12","slug":"this-is-not-the-way-the-internal-revenue-service-is-supposed-to-operate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26345","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not The Way The Internal Revenue Service Is Supposed To Operate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will admit that I do not love the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a>. I don’t think that is a particularly unique point of view. My husband and I were audited a few years ago after making a small donation to the Tea Party<\/a>. Nothing in our returns had changed, and it was the first time we had been audited in forty-seven years. They examined our small amount of paperwork for about a year before they finally told us that nothing was wrong. They are a government agency<\/a> that has acquired a lot of power over the years, and I believe that in recent years that power has been successfully used against political enemies. Now we are discovering that the IRS was ignoring the rules that were supposed to govern it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday The Washington Times<\/a> reported that as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)<\/a> request by Judicial Watch<\/a>,\u00a0IRS lawyer Geoffrey J. Klimas has discovered another personal email account used by Lois Lerner for IRS business. Judicial Watch is a non-profit organization that strives to hold our government accountable. Over the years they have been responsible for exposing transparency problems in administrations of both parties.<\/p>\n

The article in The Washington Times reports:<\/p>\n

IRS lawyer Geoffrey J. Klimas told the court that as the agency was putting together a set of documents to turn over to Judicial Watch, it realized Ms. Lerner had used yet another email account, in addition to her official one and another personal one already known to the agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In addition to emails to or from an email account denominated ‘Lois G. Lerner’ or ‘Lois Home,’ some emails responsive to Judicial Watch’s request may have been sent to or received from a personal email account denominated ‘Toby Miles,'” Mr. Klimas told Judge Emmet G. Sullivan<\/a>, who is hearing the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is unclear who Toby Miles is, but Mr. Klimas said the IRS has concluded that was “a personal email account used by Lerner.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

…In the wake of the scandal Ms. Lerner retired from the agency. She declined to testify to Congress, citing her right against self-incrimination, but also said she did not break the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Obama administration has declined to pursue the contempt of Congress<\/a> case that the House brought against her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House Ways and Means Committee<\/a> also approved a criminal referral asking the Justice Department<\/a> to look into Ms. Lerner’s conduct, but its status is not clear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Americans will only find out what happened at the IRS if a Republican becomes President. I am not convinced any Democratic candidate<\/a> would be willing to pursue this case. The use of the IRS as a political entity to target conservatives goes against the basic principle of free speech. The lack of prosecution of those guilty of abusing their power in the IRS goes against the American concept of all men being equal under the law. It is time to clean house in this organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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