Provide evidence that the IRS tried to cover up its war on conservative groups:
According to the new emails, Ms. Lerner and her colleagues were aware of the growing outcry among nonprofit groups that they were being delayed.
In one Nov. 3, 2011, exchange between Ms. Lerner and Cindy Thomas, a program manager in the Cincinnati office that was handling the cases and was involved in a back-and-forth with Washington, the IRS admitted to having hundreds of cases stacked up and awaiting action.
Afraid of congressional pressure, Ms. Thomas ordered one of the inquiry letters to be sent, just to prevent one of the organizations being held up from complaining.
“Just today, I instructed one of my managers to get an additional information letter out to one of these organizations — if nothing else to buy time so he didn’t contact his Congressional Office,” she wrote in the email released by Judicial Watch.
Ms. Thomas said she feared a judge would get involved soon and order the IRS to move the applications more quickly.
That email exchange did confirm that IRS employees in Washington were deeply involved in making decisions about the nonprofit groups’ cases.
You don’t say.
Of course, how else could they override Citizens United without both coordination and then hiding it from the judicial branch that already decided the matter?
But it wasn’t one political party using the full power of the federal government to stifle its political opposition, was it, Jim? Jim?
And now a very angry Federal judge is threatening the commissioner of the IRS, plus the IRS attorneys, with jail for contempt of court for failing to turn over the emails as ordered.
I’m wondering if the harmed parties (the persecuted organizations) can go after the IRS for damaged under the RICO anti-racketeering statutes (Which have both a civil side and a criminal side), now it’s being shown that the IRS is a criminal organization.
There’s precedent; the Key West police department was formally declared and adjudged a criminal enterprise under RICO.