IRS Chief John Koskinen honored with an award for ‘Excellence in Public Service’

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Internal Revenue Service, IRS

 

One of those moments, when one asks, “Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME?”

Canada Free Press by Robert Laurie

You know John Koskinen as the IRS chief who has, repeatedly, been forced to appear before Congress and defend his agency against claims that its agents targeted conservative groups. Koskinen has been caught, over and over again, lying, obfuscating, stalling, and generally stonewalling the investigation into the “service” he oversees. Out here in the real world, that lands you in jail or, at the very least, the unemployment line. In Washington D.C…..

Well, in Washington D.C. you’re given a major award to honor you for your outstanding commitment to public service.

Both William Ruckelshaus and John Koskinen on Tuesday night were awarded the Elliot L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public Service by the National Academy of Public Administration, and both weighed in on the perils of public service in today’s hyperpartisan climate….

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Something else for we, the people, to be outraged about.

Lois Lerner tries busting into neighbor’s home to avoid questions (video)

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IRS, Jason Mattera, Lois Lerner, Tea Party Targeting

Jason Mattera and his camera team caught up with for IRS slum dog, Lois “I plead the fifth” Lerner while walking her dogs near her home located on the outskirts of Washington, DC.

Lerner dashes to a neighbor’s home in an attempt to gain access while Mattera questions her about the lost emails and targeting Americans.

One word explains this video, PRICELESS!

Published on Oct 6, 2014 by Jason Mattera

http://amzn.to/1CLaxBv And Lerner’s disregard for privacy rights continue. More here: http://amzn.to/1CLaxBv

 

H/t The Right Scoop.

 

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http://therightscoop.com/dude-lois-lerner-tries-to-bust-in-neighbors-home-to-avoid-answering-questions-about-irs-scandal/

Unfit for Office

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Barack Obama, Benghazi, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, IRS, scandals

National Review by Dr. Ben Carson

The recent escalating arguments over whether there should be further congressional hearings on Benghazi are troubling. The fact that there are substantial numbers of people who feel that there is nothing more to investigate when four American lives were lost and no one has answered for this crime provides an indication of how far our sense of justice has slipped. This should not be a partisan issue, because the implications of ignoring or prevaricating about the underlying mistakes will have far-reaching consequences. The United States has diplomatic establishments throughout the world, and if they can be attacked without consequences, […]

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IRS Abuses Civil Forfeiture Law

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civil asset forfeiture, government overreach, government theft, IRS

Newsmax (George Will)

Earnest moralists lament Americans’ distrust of government. What really is regrettable is that government does much to earn distrust, as Terry Dehko, 70, and his daughter Sandy Thomas, 41, understand.

Terry, who came to Michigan from Iraq in 1970, soon did what immigrants often do: He went into business, buying Schott’s Supermarket in Fraser, Mich., where he still works six days a week….

Sandy, a mother of four, has a master’s degree in urban planning but has worked in the store off and on since she was 12. She remembers, “They just walked into the store” and announced that they had emptied the store’s bank account. The IRS agents believed, or pretended to believe, that Terry and Sandy were or conceivably could be — which is sufficient for the IRS — conducting a criminal enterprise when not selling groceries….

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The IRS stole $35,000 from the supermarket owner’s bank account. The IRS is not the only government agency stealing Americans blind. Civil asset forfeiture is taking place on every level of government.

Americans assets are being pilfered by government thugs because….well, because, they can.

Wake up America.

 

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http://www.newsmax.com/GeorgeWill/IRS-Civil-Forfeiture-Law/2014/05/01/id/568866/#ixzz30U3YaOss
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Lois Lerner Contacted DOJ, FEC about Potential Prosecution of Tea Party Groups

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DOJ, Elijaah Cummings, FEC, IRS, Lois Lerner, Sheldon Whitehouse, U S Senate

Judicial Watch

May 9, 2013, email reveals IRS plans to meet with Department of Justice over whether to prosecute groups that “lied” about plans for political activity

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released a new batch of internal IRS documents revealing that former IRS official Lois Lerner communicated with the Department of Justice (DOJ) about whether it was possible to criminally prosecute certain tax-exempt entities. The documents were obtained as a result of an October 2013 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the agency refused to respond to four FOIA requests dating back to May 2013.

The newly released IRS documents contain an email exchange between Lerner and Nikole C. Flax, then-Chief of Staff to then-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller discussing plans to work with the DOJ to prosecute nonprofit groups that “lied” (Lerner’s quotation marks) about political activities. The exchange includes the following:

Memo from Lois Lerner dated May 8 2013 to Nikole Flax re Potential Prosecution of Tea Party Groups – Judicial Watch

 

Response Memo May 9 2013 from Nikole Flax to Lois Lerner re Prosecution of Tea Party Groups – Judicial Watch

 

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Including top Progressives in the Senate, the IRS, DOJ and FEC are all now implicated in the targeting of Conservative groups and anyone else who dared take on the Obama administration.

There is no way that this scandal does not go to the top.

View additional emails here.

 

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http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-obtains-irs-documents-showing-lerner-contact-doj-potential-prosecution-tax-exempt-groups/

IRS Targeted Sarah Palin’s Father

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IRS, sarah palin

US for Palin

“Chuck Heath, Jr today posted on Facebook: