A senior Justice Department official recently flagged by a U.S. senator in an FBI whistleblower probe into alleged politicization of prosecutions played a key role in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal a decade ago in which conservative Tea Party groups were improperly targeted for scrutiny, government emails and congressional evidence shows.
Richard Pilger, the current chief of the DOJ Elections Crime Branch of the department's Public Integrity Section, engaged in discussions in 2010 and 2013 with Lerner and other IRS officials about ways to pursue criminal prosecutions of conservative nonprofits, the records show.
The discussion led the FBI, with Pilger's direct help, to obtain and review 1.1 million pages of documents from conservative groups and even ponder charging the groups with making false statements on their IRS applications as nonprofits because they had engaged in political speech activities, according to congressional investigators.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired then by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), concluded in 2014 that Pilger's discussions were part of a larger effort by the Obama administration to criminalize political speech by conservative groups that opposed the administration's agenda.
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Surprise! No, we know it was all fixed.
The alphabet agencies, IRS and DOJ isn't done with the Tea Party! Millions of members have chasen to march to the ballot boxes rather than the Capitol and that pisses off the people with badges.
There is no question that we the people need to get President Donald J. Trump back into the White House to drain the swamp. He needs to assume total authority over the entire country and over all branches of government, get rid of all anti-patriotic elements, establish fair elections that will reflect the true preferences of the country (at least 80% for Trump and real Republicans, not rinos), and reeducate anyone poisened by the liberal media and by the "education" in liberal public schools.
Sorry to burst your booble but Trump will never be President again! ......before that happens the left will give him a free ride to the funeral home.
The "Bastard" with the big ears and lying mouth encouraged ALL the corruption that "We The People" are dealing with today. From the IRS to the FBI the corruption continue to increase. DC is not a Swamp it,s a SEWER !
Theodore, I couldn't agree more!!!!!!!!!!
I think if we couild really get to the bottom of the rampant corruption in our Federal Government; it would go back further than Obama. I'm probably going to get myself in trouble for this; but I think it went back as far are Sr. Bush. That family is part of the swamp and always have been. .
Martha, I agree, the whole bush family is on the globalist plantation!!!!! They expect to rule over this segment of the satanic global dictatorship, and will for the 7 years God gives them before casting them into the Lake of Fire!!!!!!!!!!