Little-Acorn
03-07-2014, 04:48 PM
So the IRS, which is under investigation, gets to decide which of its emails to turn over to the investigators?
Sound like a major step forward.
Or not.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/7/irs-turn-over-lerner-emails-tea-party-targeting-pr/
IRS to turn over Lerner emails in tea party targeting probe
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Friday, March 7, 2014
House Republicans said Friday that the IRS has agreed to turn over documents and emails from Lois G. Lerner, the agency’s former employee who was at the center of the tea party targeting scandal.
The announcement comes after months of jockeying between House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp and the IRS, which had said it was wading through hundreds of thousands of documents requested by House Republicans in their investigation into the targeting.
Some Lerner documents have already been turned over and they have only stoked investigators’ interests, particularly because some seem to hint that the IRS was planning a crackdown on nonprofit groups years ago — or well before an internal audit last year revealed the tea party targeting.
“From the few Lerner documents we have received, we know that Washington, D.C. orchestrated the targeting of groups applying for tax-exempt status, surveillance of existing tax-exempt groups and formed the proposed 501(c)(4) rules designed to push conservative groups out of the public forum,” Mr. Camp said in a statement announcing the agreement with the IRS. “The remaining documents are key to determining the level of wrong doing and deception committed by this agency.”
Sound like a major step forward.
Or not.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/7/irs-turn-over-lerner-emails-tea-party-targeting-pr/
IRS to turn over Lerner emails in tea party targeting probe
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Friday, March 7, 2014
House Republicans said Friday that the IRS has agreed to turn over documents and emails from Lois G. Lerner, the agency’s former employee who was at the center of the tea party targeting scandal.
The announcement comes after months of jockeying between House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp and the IRS, which had said it was wading through hundreds of thousands of documents requested by House Republicans in their investigation into the targeting.
Some Lerner documents have already been turned over and they have only stoked investigators’ interests, particularly because some seem to hint that the IRS was planning a crackdown on nonprofit groups years ago — or well before an internal audit last year revealed the tea party targeting.
“From the few Lerner documents we have received, we know that Washington, D.C. orchestrated the targeting of groups applying for tax-exempt status, surveillance of existing tax-exempt groups and formed the proposed 501(c)(4) rules designed to push conservative groups out of the public forum,” Mr. Camp said in a statement announcing the agreement with the IRS. “The remaining documents are key to determining the level of wrong doing and deception committed by this agency.”