The House Ways and Means Committee has voted to 23-14 along party lines to refer former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner to the Justice Department for prosecution. Although the details about exactly what charges will be have not yet been released, lawmakers are arguing Lerner has not been truthful with Congress or the IRS inspector general and leaked confidential tax information. Last time a referral like this happened, it was to Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens, who was pursued by the Department of Justice for lying to Congress but was exonerated in court. […]
BREAKING: House Ways and Means Committee Votes to Refer Lois Lerner For Criminal Charges
April 9, 2014 by
IRS Hires Ex-Police Who Was Fired For Sharing FBI Database Secrets
March 21, 2014 by
The reporters and âwatchdog groupsâ are treating this problem as if it is only about whether or not the IRS can do sufficient background checks. But maybe they wanted this man because of his background. After all, the IRS has given private information to third parties before. So maybe this man is perfect for the […]
Working Now at IRS â Terror Sympathizer Who Abused FBI Data â Access To Data on Millions
March 11, 2014 by
The IRS has never enjoyed a good reputation among the American people, but, while many believed them to be an abusive, largely unaccountable bureaucracy, it has only recently come to light that they are also a partisan tool used for un-American activities. More information in that regard now seems to be beginning to come […]
What is Lois hiding?
March 6, 2014 by
Where Lois Lerner goes, drama follows. On Wednesday, the former IRS officer again invoked the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee. That precipitated a heated exchange between the committee’s Republican chairman, Darrell Issa, and Democratic ranking member Elijah Cummings, who called the hearings “un-American.” And that spat has become the story. No doubt that is exactly what Cummings had in mind. Because it distracts attention from the substance of the hearings — and from the questions raised by e-mails and public remarks Lerner wrote, received or made when she was IRS director of tax exempt organizations. The Weekly Standard […]
BREAKING: Lois Lerner Refuses to Answer Questions Before Congress, Pleads the Fifth Again
March 5, 2014 by
Appearing in front of the House Oversight Committee Wednesday morning Lois Lerner, former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS, refused to answer questions asked by lawmakers by pleading the Fifth Amendment. Earlier this week, Lerner’s attorney William Taylor confirmed to Committee members in an email that she would testify. Lerner was issued a […]
Not a Smidgen of Corruption at the IRS?
February 12, 2014 by
One of President Obamaâs statements to Bill OâReilly in the pre-Super Bowl interview, was that when it came to the IRS controversy, that was another Fox News phony scandal, and there wasnât even a âsmidgen of corruptionâ in his administration. But we have shown in numerous articles how this has, in reality, been a serious […]
WAR ON CONSERVATIVES AND CHRISTIANS
February 11, 2014 by
This is SHOCKING: the Obama administration has decided that conservatives and Christians shouldn’t have a voice in our government. Recently, the Obama administration quietly ordered the IRS to silence its opponents by imposing new regulations on Christian and conservative non-profit groups. These rules forbid conservative groups like Faith & Freedom Coalition from distributing voter guides, […]
A Timeline of the IRS Targeting of Conservative, Evangelical and Pro-Life Groups Scandal
February 10, 2014 by
Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Lois Lerner appears before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on alleged targeting of conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status from by the IRS, o (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) obama, o’reilly There is "not even a smidgen of corruption" at the Internal Revenue Service, President Barack Obama recently declared in response to a question about IRS harassment of conservative groups. Here is a timeline of the events to which Obama was referring: May 10, 2013: In response to a question from an interviewer at the American Bar Association […]
Must see! Powerful and frightening testimony on Obama intimidation
February 9, 2014 by
I am proud to call Catherine Engelbrecht, President of True the Vote, (www.truethevote.org), a friend. I have written about their amazing organization and its singular achievements in exposing vote fraud a number of times. For example, here, during the Wisconsin recall of Governor Scott Walker, and here, in a widely-read research report on vote fraud […]
IRS Commissioner Apologizes for Targeting of Conservative Groups
February 6, 2014 by
IRS Commissioner John Koskinenâs remarks came while testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee. Koskinen, who was not in charge of the agency at the time of the unfolding scandal, said that such targeting would be âintolerable,â and he assured the House subcommittee that there is no ongoing targeting. âIt won’t happen going forward,â […]
If You Were Taken Aback by Obamaâs âSmidgen of Corruptionâ Claim, Wait Until You Hear Trey Gowdy
February 6, 2014 by
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Thursday blasted President Barack Obamaâs recent claim that there was ânot even a smidgen of corruptionâ involved in the Internal Revenue Serviceâs alleged targeting of conservative groups. House subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., right, and Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, left, participate […]
Lawmaker: Obama should win âLie of the Yearâ again for claiming no corruption at IRS
February 5, 2014 by
Politics WASHINGTON â Idaho Republican Rep. RaĂșl Labrador said Wednesday that President Obama deserves to win the âLie of the Yearâ award again in 2014 for saying there wasnât a âsmidgen of corruptionâ at the Internal Revenue Service when conservatives were targeted. Labrador made the comments during a press availability with conservative lawmakers on Capitol […]
NSA Phone Spying Ruled Unconstitutional!
December 16, 2013 by
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records likely violates the Constitution, in a major setback for the controversial spy agency. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon granted a preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs Larry Klayman and Charles Strange. However, he also stayed his decision “pending appeal,” giving […]
Snowden disputes Feinstein claim that NSA spying isn’t ‘surveillance’
October 24, 2013 by
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) claim that the government’s phone record collection program is not “surveillance.” “Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands,” Snowden said […]
Ben Carson’s Obama Critique Prompts IRS Visit
October 4, 2013 by
Former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson reportedly got a surprise visit from the IRS after he sharply criticized Washington public policy, including Obamacare, at a gathering that included President Barack Obama. Carson told business leaders and elected officials in Alabama on Monday night that his first-ever “encounter” with the agency followed his fiery speech at […]
President Obama resumes lying about the debt ceiling
September 19, 2013 by
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact-checker, took a lot of heat for ducking out of a fact-check on President Obama’s efforts to walk back his famed “chemical weapons red line in Syria” comments. But he’s not pulling any punches when it comes to the lines of red hooey Obama is drawing around the debt ceiling. This is what the President said yesterday: You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force […]
Anti-Obama? That’ll Get You Flagged for Audit by the IRS
September 18, 2013 by
According to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and new documents, 80 percent of groups applying for tax exempt status were conservative, again throwing out the argument that progressive groups were “targeted” equally. New information also shows groups with “anti-Obama” indicators in their applications were specifically set aside for further harassment. More from USAToday: […]
Left Immediately Blames NRA, Not Enough Gun Control For Navy Yard Shooting
September 16, 2013 by
It’s 3:10 pm on Washington D.C. and we still don’t know who carried out the shooting at the Navy Yard this morning. Despite an absence of the facts, liberals and their allies in the media, are already blaming a lack of more gun control, gun owners and the NRA for the horrific attack that left at least 12 dead. First, CNN’s David Frum: Next, Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski: How the NRA handles a mass shooting: Silence http://t.co/vKT2cXqTp5 — Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) September 16, 2013 It should be noted Washington D.C. is a gun free zone, as are military bases and […]
Report: Holder Coached Black Ministers on Avoiding IRS Scrutiny
September 15, 2013 by
Tweet Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS officials reportedly coached black ministers on how to engage in political activity without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status during the 2012 election. Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Peter Lorenzetti, a senior official in the IRS’s exempt organizations division, participated in a May 2012 training session for ministers from […]
Report: NSA Impersonated Google, Others Websites to Spy on Target Users
September 14, 2013 by
The tech security industry was still reeling from revelations in The New York Times and the Guardian last week that the intelligence gathering agencies in the U.S. and U.K. were supposedly undermining basic online security and privacy measures. It was the latest in a long line of leaks about the U.S. National Security Agencyâs spying […]
IRS Scandal Blows Wide Open As New Emails Uncovered
September 13, 2013 by
Emails undercut the official IRS story on political targeting. Â The Wall Street Journal-Congress’s investigation into the IRS targeting of conservatives has been continuing out of the Syria headlines, and it’s turning up news. Emails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee between former Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner and her staff raise doubts […]
The NSA Has Access to Smartphone Data
September 11, 2013 by
Each day that passes Americans are finding out how every aspect of their lives is being spied upon by the Obama administration and the National Security Agency (NSA). The Obama administration secretly obtained permission from the surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the NSA’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails. This decision […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Listens to Billions of Phone Calls
September 6, 2013 by
Our nation has now learned that another federal agency is spying on the American people. Scott Shane and Colin Moynihan wrote an article in The New York Times entitled “Drug agents’ phone trove eclipses NSAÂŽs” on September 2, 2013. The reporters explained that for at least six years the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have had […]
NRA joins lawsuit against NSA snooping
September 5, 2013 by
 Says spy agency claiming power that could create national gun registry The National Rifle Association has thrown its weight behind a challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agencyâs domestic snooping. In a court filing Wednesday with the federal district court in New York, the gun rights group argues that the NSAâs mass collection […]
The National Security Agency Illegally Gathered Thousands of Emails from Americans
August 28, 2013 by
The National Security Agency (NSA) collected as many as 56,000 emails from Americans over three years. During this time the NSA collected Internet communications from fiber optic cables, and in the process, gathered thousands of emails and other Internet activities by Americans. NSA said that such collections were inadvertent. The violation was discovered in 2011. […]
Report: NSA Can Review 75 percent of US Domestic Web Traffic
August 23, 2013 by
The Wall Street Journal peels back another layer of the NSA surveillance onion with an exclusive report: The National Security Agencyâwhich possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizensâhas built a surveillance network that covers more Americansâ Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say. The system has the capacity […]
New NSA Revelations Stir Congressional Concern: âIncredibly Troublingâ
August 17, 2013 by
WASHINGTON (AP) — New revelations from leaker Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency has overstepped its authority thousands of times since 2008 are stirring renewed calls on Capitol Hill for serious changes to NSA spy programs, undermining White House hopes that President Barack Obama had quieted the controversy with his assurances of oversight. An internal audit provided by Snowden to The Washington Post shows the agency has repeatedly broken privacy rules or exceeded its legal authority every year since Congress granted it broad new powers in 2008. A building on the National Security Administration (NSA) campus is seen […]
Radio Host: Obama Was âPhotoshoppedâ Into Bin Laden Raid Situation Room Photo
August 16, 2013 by
On his AFA radio show Thursday afternoon, Bryan Fischer theorized that the White House digitally inserted President Obama into the iconic situation room photograph from the night of the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden ‘s compound. As the evangelical host sees it, Obama initially did not want to be in the room in case the raid went poorly. But when it was successful, Fischer posited, the president had himself photoshopped into the image to look “on-point” and like he had “just left the golf course” to tend to the momentous raid. “If you go look at that picture, […]
The Next Threat to Your Privacy
August 9, 2013 by
Who has access to your Social Security number, your bank information, and your tax records? When Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges open, your data could be exposed to shysters and hackers, thanks to serious vulnerabilities in the system. The exchanges are scheduled to open on October 1 (just 53 days away). But the list of implementation failures keeps growing, and the security of Americans’ data is threatened. THREAT #1: Obamacare “Navigators” Navigators are a group of people and organizations that are going to be facilitating signups for Obamacare’s insurance exchanges. Example: Planned Parenthood has applied for navigator grants to work […]