Emails show agency colluding with Democrat congressman.
Responding to newly exposed internal IRS emails that show Democrat collusion with the agency to target her tea party group and impede an investigation, True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht told WND she won’t be intimidated by what she calls attacks by the current administration.
“I will not retreat, I will not surrender, I will not be intimidated. I will not ask Elijah Cummings, Lois Lerner, Barack Obama or anyone else for permission to exercise my constitutional rights,” Engelbrecht said in a statement to WND.
Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, has denied his staff ever contacted the IRS about True the Vote. But the emails show that the IRS and Cummings’ staff communicated multiple times in 2012 and 2013 about True the Vote and asked the non-profit for nearly identical information.
Lerner, the former director of the agency’s tax-exempt unit, could face up to five years in prison if she is found guilty of disclosing confidential taxpayer information to the Democrat lawmaker’s staff, according to federal privacy laws referenced by the committee.
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