Fitton: IRS Documents Reveal McCain Staffer Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting – IOTW Report

Fitton: IRS Documents Reveal McCain Staffer Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting

Judicial Watch released newly obtained internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.” Kerner was appointed by President Trump as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.

The explosive exchange was contained in notes taken by IRS employees at an April 30, 2013, meeting between Kerner, Lerner, and other high-ranking IRS officials. Just ten days following the meeting, former IRS director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner admitted that the IRS had a policy of improperly and deliberately delaying applications for tax-exempt status from conservative non-profit groups. Lerner and other IRS officials met with select top staffers from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a “marathon” meeting to discuss concerns raised by both Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that the IRS was not reining in political advocacy groups in response to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Senator McCain had been the chief sponsor of the McCain-Feingold Act and called the Citizens United decision, which overturned portions of the Act, one of the “worst decisions I have ever seen.”  more

18 Comments on Fitton: IRS Documents Reveal McCain Staffer Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting

  1. “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it….”

    Look at that, how to deal with a problem like this is included on page one of the American instruction manual.

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  2. yes it is. and soon to acted upon. and it needs a good altering, seems a bit frayed at the ends lately. it also needs to be brought up to a modern civil code. these civil servants are very out dated in their thought and processes. most will need replacement as their current models are obsolete and not under current warranty.

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  3. Nothing will be done. Libs and their lapdogs will ignore and/or dispute because JW is not an “unbiased source”. The documents have no merit because of the tainted nature of the entity that discovered them. Further, just because “Kerner urged top IRS officials” doesn’t mean the IRS followed through (even though it obviously did).

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  4. Once a traitor always a traitor. This sniveling beta male gets beat by Obama and then shamed by Obama. HE then trys to cozy up to Obama for 8 years and gets mad when Conservatives call him out for it. Truly more dangerous that Mad Maxine.

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  5. Make every effort to ensure McCain knows this traitorous act as well as his other underhanded betrayals have been widely disseminated to the general public so he’s made aware his reputation is garbage in the eyes of his countrymen at his final moments.
    Have a pleasant dirt nap you swine.

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  6. And now this toad is the fixer for all federal special investigations. Unbelievable. When did he get this new job, and who gave it to him?

    And Q, where were you?

    BTW, this scumbag has his stink finger in many pies…

    “Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, ran afoul of federal laws last year by expressing preferences for one candidate and against another in Alabama’s special Senate election, a federal investigator said….
    In a report submitted to President Donald Trump, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel found that Conway violated the Hatch Act, which regulates campaigning by most executive branch employees.”

    Yes, the unnamed investigator was Kerning.

    If Maxine can exhort violence against Trump administration officials, can I wish a little hell on exposed deep staters?

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  7. Lerner is being paid for her “service” to maggots like McCain.
    Koskinen will be amply rewarded for his “service,” too.
    McCain will die in his sleep, remorseless.

    “Sinners do not fear death; they fear the revelation of the Living God.”

    They persist in their evils until called to account.
    And then: Woe be unto them!
    But they believe not. Thus they scoff, belittle, deride, defile, oppress the poor, steal from those who work, and forge themselves a shelf in Hell.

    It is incumbent upon us to deal out terrestrial justice.
    God’s concern is Ultimate Justice.

    izlamo delenda est …

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  8. There is your reason why no one, especially Lerner, were never in danger of being prosecuted.

    Is McCain merely a high officer of the Uniparty?
    Is McCain simply a GOP turncoat, a DNC loyalist?
    Are ALL US Senators capable and willing to use any and all government tools against us? (can you confidently name any ONE that wouldn’t do this, if it helped their career?)

    Who wouldn’t feel patriotic to serve on a firing squad as soon as they are asked?

    Stay very angry, fellow citizens. There is no limit to what we will discover.

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  9. “Sinners do not fear death; they fear the revelation of the Living God.”

    What it should have been:
    “Sinners do not fear death; they fear the revealed Presence of God.”

    I was in too much of a hurry.

    izlamo delenda est …

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