[EL] Lerner in her own words - "everyone" "screaming"

[Trevor Potter]

Jason

 

I know you are relying on a Breitbart piece, and it has an obvious point
of view. However, even that piece does not say that there was any
pressure from the "White House" on the IRS, and Breitbart is fair enough
to note that there was a great deal of press coverage and editorials in
2010 about new 501 c4s which appeared to be doing  nothing but huge
amounts election activity in 2010. As the article states:

 

"TIGTA's report
<http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.html
>  contains a few key redactions which conceal precisely how the
scrutiny of Tea Party groups began. Reading between the lines it seems
<http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/06/03/What-Initiated-the-IRS-Ta
rgeting-of-the-Tea-Party>  media attention played a role. Plans by a Tea
Party group to create a new 501(c)(4) were featured in stories at the NY
Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/us/politics/06teaparty.html?ref=polit
ics&_r=1&>  and NPR
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123859296>  just a
couple weeks after Obama's statements about Citizens United. These
stories apparently caught the attention of the IRS which regularly
monitors news stories to be aware of developing issues."

 

Thus, the "everyone" wanting the IRS to "do something" in context
appears to refer to the quite public and common outrage reported on in
the press that essentially political entities were using 501 c 4 status
to avoid disclosure of their donors which would be required under
election law.  

 

Trevor Potter

 

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[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of
Jason Torchinsky
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 10:47 AM
To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Lerner in her own words - "everyone" "screaming"

 

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/08/06/Lois-Lerner-Discusses-Poli
tical-Pressure-on-the-IRS-in-2010  

 

In case anyone missed this, here's Lois Lerner in her own words from
2010 explaining that "everyone" wanted the IRS to "do something."

 

This video according to the report was taken in the fall of 2010.  

 

Implications of this?  I thought the IRS and the White House have
maintained there was no pressure on the IRS.

 

-          Jason Torchinsky



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