FBI + IRS = S-C-A-N-D-A-L

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Ho-hum — another day, another Nixonian revelation:

The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel.
The information was transmitted in advance of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s meeting the same month with Justice Department officials about the possibility of using campaign-finance laws to prosecute certain nonprofit groups. E-mails between Lerner and Richard Pilger, the director of the Justice Department’s election-crimes branch, obtained through a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, show Lerner asking about the format in which the FBI preferred the data to be sent.
“This revelation that the IRS sent 1.1 million pages of nonprofit tax-return data — including confidential taxpayer information — to the FBI confirms suspicions that the IRS worked with the Justice Department to facilitate the potential investigation of nonprofit groups engaged in lawful political speech,” Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, and subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan wrote in a letter to IRS commissioner John Koskinen. . . .

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

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  3. The only way justice will be done is after Obama and Holder leave office. Thank God the statute of limitations for perjury and obstruction of justice is 5 years.
    And none of this “let’s move on” crap. If we don’t prosecute after they’re out of office, it will just encourage more of this behavior.

  6. As Jeff Goldstein said the other day, the purpose is to get us so fearful, that all we want to do is keep our heads down and not make waves and so allow the Elites to do what they wish Whether that goal will be achieved remains to be seen, but it’s not looking good.

  10. The first insults and injuries are the parents of all the others. As a wise man once noted.

  11. If a democracy can choose one Barack Obama, it’s certainly capable of choosing another. The nightmare’s likely just beginning.

    The much larger problem could very well be the false religion of democracy.

  12. OFF TOPIC:

    http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=29594

    Rapture of the Nerds: Latest New Age Religion

    Posted on April 25, 2014 by SBrinkmann

    Gabriel Rothblatt

    The latest New Age religion claims we can digitally record our thoughts and feelings, store them in a “mindfile” and one day use them to assemble a digital copy of ourselves for future use.

    The Daily Mail is reporting on this new trans-religion, which is how New Agers refer to any of their religions that can be practiced alongside a person’s own beliefs (even though the founder has an ashram and statue of Buddha in his backyard where yoga is practiced).

    Called the Terasem Faith, its followers are dedicated to studying and raising awareness about “personal cyberconsciousness” – or the creation of “mindfiles.”

    These files are made by writing down or recording a video of a thought, memory or feeling with great detail, then uploading it to the Terasem website where the files are stored on servers located in their two headquarters in Vermont and Florida. Terasem promises to protect the files for long-term future use by a software program that has yet to be created that will make it possible to upload them into an artificial body 500 years from now.

    No, I’m not making this up – and yes, people are actually buying this service – 32,000 so far (or so the creators say).

    The idea is the brainchild of Bina and Martine Rothblatt who were inspired by the Octavia Butler sci-fi novel “Parable of the Sower” which was about a new religion called by the Greek name Terasem which means “earthseed”.

    Martine, a transsexual businesswoman who came into the world as Martin, founded the successful satellite radio company Sirius XM in 1990.

    Their new faith is organized around four core tenets: life is purposeful; death is optional; God is technological; and love is essential.

    “Einstein said science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind,” Martine told TIME. “Bina and I were inspired to find a way for people to believe in God consistent with science and technology so people would have faith in the future.”

    Bina and Martine Rothblatt

    For the Rothblatts, “God is in-the-making by our collective efforts to make technology ever more omnipresent, omnipotent and ethical,” Martine says. “When we can joyfully all experience techno immortality, then God is complete.”

    The Rothblatts have turned over the reins of their new church to their son, Gabriel, who was managing a local pizza restaurant until his appointment as pastor in 2011. He’s now running for Congress in addition to managing the new church.

    In what some might call the understatement of the century, Gabriel admits: “A lot of people have problems digesting the idea.”

    In order to make his beliefs more believable, he opts for the more user-friendly “digital scrapbooking” rather than the too futuristic “mindfiles”.

    Terasem also has rituals which they say are important to keep the movement going “until all of consciousness is connected and all the cosmos is controlled.”

    These include setting aside one day a week for “Reading, Exercise, Sensuality and Transcendental Meditation.”

    On the 10th of each month, followers are asked to gather at 10:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m. to conduct a Terasem Gathering. “Even if there is just one of you, it is OK, because I am You, You am I, and We are One,” the website states. Gathering time consists of music jam, art sharing, recitation of 30 sequential truths of Terasem, talking and teaching, and practicing yoga.

    When TIME visited Rothblatt’s headquarters in Melbourne Beach, Florida, they found the church’s mindfile operation to be housed in the basement of a cottage with two strange looking satellite dishes in the backyard. They were told the dishes were meant to transport mindfiles into space with the belief that they might one day reach an alien species that actually wants them.

    “Next door is an ashram, an airy glass building with walls that slide away to reveal a backyard home to a telescope for stargazing and a space to practice yoga,” TIME reports. “Tucked behind a shroud of greenery, most neighbors don’t even know this house of worship exists” (which has to be a good thing for local property values).

    Lori Rhodes, who helps run Terasem Movement Inc., said her sister warned her not to get involved with the organization because it looked like a cult, but she decided to over-ride her.

    ” . . .(A)ny religion starts with just a few members,” she said. “And I guess organized religions is cultish. Some people call it the rapture of the nerds.”

    I couldn’t have said it better myself.

    – See more at: http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=29594#sthash.DzI7NlHW.dpuf

  16. I expect Obama will issue blanket pardons to himself, Holder, probably anyone who has served in the Cabinet, perhaps all his political appointees. There is no telling what he will do to avoid being called to account.

  17. This is why I oppose immunity for Lerner. She is in the middle of all of it and is likely one of the masterminds. There is NOTHING that she did that there is not records of, that multiple other people did not witness and have records of. Her testimony isn’t required, documents are, and we are getting them, if too slowly.

  18. That’s what I’ve been saying, too.

    He’s going to pardon illegal aliens, immunize his administration from prosecution by having them resign early and get pardons, he’ll release more high-value Gitmo detainees, lose all of our assets in the Middle East, and maybe even cause the launching of the third “intifada” (which will probably be the first nuclear intifada).

    That’s not even all the highlights. I can only wonder at the day-to-day depredations.

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