Mueller’s despicable evasive behavior (while under oath) is a direct insult to the victims of IRS targeting.

(WashingtonFreeBeacon)
Published on Jun 13, 2013
Robert Mueller could offer no information under questioning from Rep. Jim Jordan about the investigation into the IRS for its targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exemption.
6/13/13

Rep. Jim Jordan: Is Mr. Cummings accurate in his assessment?

Mueller: Could you repeat that?

Jordan: Based on everything I’ve seen, quoting Mr. Cummings, “the case is solved” this is regarding the IRS scandal.

Mueller: Which case?

Jordan: The IRS scandal

Mueller: The IRS case? No, the IRS case is currently under investigation and it basically just started.

Jordan: Yeah, what can you tell us, you started a month ago. Have you found the now infamous two rogue agents, have you discovered who those people are?

Mueller: Well I needless to say because it’s under investigation I can’t give out any information.

Jordan: Can you tell me some basics, how many agents/investigators you’ve assigned to the case?

Mueller: Well, uh, I may be able to do that but I’d have to get back to you.

Jordan: Can you tell me who the lead investigator is?

Mueller: Off the top of my head, no.

Jordan: This is the most important issue in front of the country in the last six weeks and you don’t know who’s heading up the case? Who the lead investigator is?

Mueller: Uh, at this juncture no I do not know..

Jordan: Can you get that information to us we’d like to know. We’d like to know how many people you’ve assigned to look into this situation.

Mueller: I have not had a recent briefing on it, I had a briefing on it when we first initiated it, but I have not had a recent briefing as to where we are

Jordan: Who’s leading the case?

Mueller: I do not know who is leading the case.

Jordan: Do you know if you’ve talked to any of the victims, have you talked to any of the groups who were targeted by their government? Have you met with any of the Tea Party folks since May 14, 2013?

Mueller: I do not know what the status of the interviews are by the team that’s on it

Jordan: Would expect that that’s been done?

Mueller: Uh, they’re, uh… Certainly, at some point in time of course the investigation will be done but generally to start the investigation you get the documents so that you can have…

Jordan: But don’t you usually talk to the victims…

Mueller: I do not know specifically what is happening

Jordan: In your extensive record and history in investigative work, don’t you typically talk to victim? It’s a criminal investigation, don’t you talk to the victims pretty soon..

Mueller: Absolutely, and I am sure it will happen.

Jordan: So did the FBI contact any of these same victims, were they contacted by the FBI prior to the investigation when the same groups were applying for tax exemption status did the FBI pay some of these individuals a visit?

Mueller: I do not know.

Jordan: You don’t know?

Mueller: I do not know.

Jordan: Some of them testified that they were paid a visit by the FBI, specifically Catherine Engelbrecht in Texas, said she was contacted by the FBI, she was head of True the Vote. Is that true or not?

Mueller: I do not know.

Jordan: You do not know. Okay. If the FBI did contact people involved in the IRS scandal, victims groups, prior to the investigation when they were applying for tax exemption status. Why was that the case? Why would you be looking into it? And, was there possibly coordination with the IRS in why you targeted them?

Mueller: You’re asking me details about the investigation, I would be happy to get back to you. …

Jordan: I am not asking you details about the investigation. I am saying why were people targeted before the investigation started? Why were they contacted by the FBI? People who are now part of Tea Party groups who were targeted by the IRS.

Mueller: You’re asking details about the investigation. I would be happy to take your questions…

Jordan: That is not a detail about the investigation, that took place prior the investigation started.

Mueller: May I please finish, you’re asking detailed about the investigation I’d be happy to get back to you and answer those questions that I can’t understanding that there is an on-going investigation..

Jordan: I am asking you basic questions about the investigation like who’s heading it up? And you can’t tell me that.

Dereliction of duty.

Suggested question; ‘Who has directed you to evade questioning?’ Because I find it very to believe that Mueller knows nothing, that he has been kept out of the loop. His marching orders came from somewhere.

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Eric Holder’s House Judiciary Committee Testimony: “I Don’t Know, I Don’t Know, I Don’t Know, I Don’t Know, I Don’t Know…” 57 Times! [Video]

“A bit of advice that would be quite interesting to every church in America.”

IRS religious persecution of a Christian organization caught on tape.

(ADF Media Relations) –In March 2012, Ania Joseph received a call from IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Sherry Wan, who told her that Pro-Life Revolution cannot “force” its religion or beliefs on anyone else. Wan inaccurately told Joseph that the organization must remain neutral on positions such as abortion in order to qualify for a tax exemption. The IRS has approved applications for tax exemption for pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood and Life and Liberty for Women.

Full audio: adfmedia.org/files/ProLifeRevolutionIRScall.wav
Full transcript: adfmedia.org/files/ProLifeRevolutionCallTranscriptIRS.pdf

Obama’s IRS jack boot army stomping on 1st amendment rights of Christians and conservatives.

 

Agent (:44 – 1:17) – Yeah, you have the religious freedom; the freedom of speech. And other people also have the civil rights; human rights. You cannot, you know, use your religious belief to tell other people you don’t have a belief, so I don’t believe you need the right to do this, start confrontation, protesting, uh, prot, uh, protest. [unintelligible] You don’t apply for tax exemption.

Crosstalk (1:17 – 1:18)

Agent (1:18 – 1:38) – Nobody will go after you as long as you don’t violate the law. But when you come to apply for tax exemption, you have to keep your action to, you know, exactly what is
educational or religious, you know you [unintelligible].

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

IRS caught on tape: Keep faith to yourself

Non-profit group waited for tax-exempt approval for almost 2-1/2 years
Monday, June 10, 2013

Attorney sound bites:  Erik Stanley #1  |  Erik Stanley #2

WASHINGTON — Alliance Defending Freedom made public Monday audio of a phone conversation that the Internal Revenue Service placed to a non-profit organization that provides support to women in abusive pregnancy situations. In the recorded phone conversation, an IRS agent lectures the president of the organization about forcing its religion and beliefs on others and inaccurately explains that the group must remain neutral on issues such as abortion.

Alliance Defending Freedom represents the group, which did not receive its tax-exempt status until last week, nearly two and a half years after applying for it.

“The IRS is a tax collector; it shouldn’t be allowed to be the speech and belief police,” said Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “The current scandal isn’t new but has merely exposed the abuse of power that characterizes this agency and threatens our fundamental freedoms.”

The IRS grants tax exemptions to religious, educational, and/or charitable organizations. In January 2011, Pro-Life Revolution, which operates from Texas under all three purposes, filed an application for tax-exempt status with the IRS.

Four months later, the IRS sent a letter requesting “more information” and an explanation of how the organization’s activities are educational or charitable even though IRS rules specify that an organization need only operate for “one or more” of the three exempt purposes. President of Pro-Life Revolution Ania Joseph nonetheless replied and answered the IRS’s questions.

In March 2012, Joseph received a call from IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Sherry Wan, who told her that, in order to obtain a tax exemption, “You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else…. You have to know your boundaries. You have to know your limits. You have to respect other people’s beliefs.” The IRS has approved applications for tax exemption for pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood and Life and Liberty for Women.

In February of this year, the IRS requested additional information in another letter and attempted to apply a standard for tax exemption to Pro-Life Revolution that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held to be unconstitutional in 1980. Alliance Defending Freedom pointed this out in a letter responding to the IRS, which finally granted tax-exempt status to the organization in a letter received Thursday.

“The power to tax is the power to destroy,” added Stanley. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We cannot allow the IRS to ruthlessly dictate against legitimate non-profits simply because it does not approve of the organization’s mission. It must be held accountable.”

• Photo: Ania Joseph, president of Pro-Life Revolution

• Phone call between Ania Joseph and IRS agent Sherry Wan: Full audio (10:13) | Audio clips with words graphically displayed on screen |  Full transcript

• Pronunciation guide: Ania (AHN’-yuh), Wan (WAHN’)

Related: Stunning! #IRSHearing Revelation! #IRS Asked Pro-Life Group To “Detail Content Of Members Prayers”

Then that would be a ‘yes’.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL): “You know, when government bureaucrats are sloppy they’re usually really sloppy. Want to just ask, could you assure to us that no phones inside the Capitol were monitored of members of Congress that would give a future executive branch, if they started pulling this kind of thing up, would give them unique leverage over the legislature?”

Eric Holder:  “With all due respect, senator, I don’t think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. I’d be more than glad to come back in an appropriate setting to discuss the issues that you have raised, but in this open forum..

Kirk: “The correct answer would be, ‘No, we stayed within our lane and I’m assuring you we did not spy on members of Congress.”

Sleazy, evasive corrupt perjurer.

If you fell for Obama’s BS, the joke will be on you.

(CNET) –”For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and “wiretaps without warrants,” he said. (He was referring to the lingering legal fallout over reports that the National Security Agency scooped up Americans’ phone and Internet activities without court orders, ostensibly to monitor terrorist plots, in the years after the September 11 attacks.)”

H/T JWF
Another instance when Obama promised ‘no more wiretapping’:

“This administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom. That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.”

You aint seen nothing yet…

Update:

And the NSA would never abuse its awesome surveillance power, right? Wrong. In 2008, NSA workers told ABC News that they routinely eavesdropped on phone sex between troops serving overseas and their loved ones in America. They listened in on both satellite phone calls and calls from the phone banks in Iraq’s Green Zone where soldiers call home. Former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk described how a coworker would say, “Hey, check this out… there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out.” Faulk explained they would gossip about the best calls during breaks. “It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy.’”

If wiretapping occurred under the Bush admin, what makes you think it would never happen under Barack ‘Enemies List’ Obama with nefarious intentions. I mean ‘cmon! Think people, think.

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A big step towards exposing Obama’s IRS officials’ –web of lies?

(WSJ) –Two Internal Revenue Service employees in the agency’s Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that IRS officials in Washington helped direct the probe of tea-party groups that began in 2010.

Transcripts of the interviews, viewed Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, appear to contradict earlier statements by top IRS officials, who have blamed lower-level workers in Cincinnati.

Elizabeth Hofacre said her office in Cincinnati sought help from IRS officials in the Washington unit that oversees tax-exempt organizations after she started getting the tea-party cases in April 2010. Ms. Hofacre said Carter Hull, an IRS lawyer in Washington, closely oversaw her work and suggested some of the questions asked applicants.

“I was essentially a front person, because I had no autonomy or no authority to act on [applications] without Carter Hull’s influence or input,” she said, according to the transcripts.

Mr. Hull could not be reached for comment.
……
The interview transcripts suggest it began with a search for tea-party groups by name among applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status. The Cincinnati employee who conducted the search, Gary Muthert, said he started gathering applications in March 2010, at the request of an unidentified local manager, who allegedly told him that “Washington, D.C., wanted some cases,” according to the transcripts. Mr. Muthert first heard of tea-party applications from another Cincinnati employee.
……
Ms. Hofacre said she was outraged last month when IRS higher-ups, including Lois Lerner, then the head of the IRS tax-exempt division, blamed the problem on employees in Cincinnati. “I was furious,” Ms. Hofacre told interviewers. “It looked like Lois Lerner was putting it on us.”

Continued >>>

WHO IS IRS LAWYER CARTER HULL – AND WHO IS HIS BOSS? WE NEED TO FIND OUT ALL THE CONNECTIONS HULL HAD WITH HIGHER UPS…

Update: Prior Tea Party targeting under Hull’s belt:

(Rummy Chick) –DC Carter Hull is the one that targeted Marianne Chifelle’s breakfasts
among others with HIS letter
http://media.aclj.org/pdf/irs-letter-from-washington-dc-office-unredacted.pdf

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“We have exceeded, we have gone way over what this government is supposed to be able to do.”

“If at some point we can not stop this culture of fear. This government sponsored fear. Then we are really coming up short on what the oath is that we took….We took an oath to defend our constitution.”

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“My personal favorite was question number 33. Which in relation to protests, asked for a listing for our quote; “committed violations of local ordinances, breeches of public order or arrests“. Then it requested details on how we conduct or promote illegal activities. I think the IRS needs to fix it’s labeling machine, we’re the San Fernando Valley Patriots, not Occupy Oakland”

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“Our application was singled out solely because we had teaparty in our name. Government agents made invasive and excessive demands for information they were not entitled to. Congressman camp and this committee, this was not an accident, this is a willful act of intimidation to discourage a point of view”

Rep. @MikeKellyPA at #IRS Hearing: “American People Are Frozen With Fear. We Have Gone Far Beyond Being Chilling” [Video]

Compelling! Tea Party Founder At #IRS Hearing: “Jackboot Of Tyranny Upon Field Of Our Founding Documents” [Video]

Hypocrisy now!

Via Warner Todd Huston at Wizbang:

….Flash forward to 2013 and we have an Attorney General who has created the most politicized Department of Justice in history. Yet, today Obama has forgotten all about those high-minded concepts that an AG that should be “the people’s attorney” and is happily standing by his political enforcer, Eric Holder.

Now Obama is the President who has an AG that acts as his political enforcer, a man who does his job as if it is part of his boss’s political campaign instead of an autonomous office whose goal is to enforce the laws of the United States of America. Not only that, but we have an AG that is far and away more political with his actions than any AG in history.

Yet, Obama stands by this partisan hack even when members of his own party call for his resignation.[...]

Larry King: All right, the most important — I guess the major issue at hand these days is Alberto Gonzales’ firing of the U.S. attorneys.

What’s your read?

Senator Barack OBama: Well, I voted against Alberto Gonzales’ confirmation for precisely the reason that we’re seeing now. My–and I said this on the floor of the Senate–that although he seemed to be a capable attorney, he seemed to conceive of his role as being the president’s attorney instead of being the people’s attorney.

And part of the role of the attorney general is to say to the executive branch here are the limits of your power. Here are the things that you can’t do.

I don’t think Alberto Gonzales ever told the president that there was something he could not do.

And so, as a consequence, when the White House decides that a–a U.S. attorney is not carrying out the political vendettas of the White House, then there are some questions as to whether Gonzales was encouraged to fire these individuals.

You’ve got a situation in terms of the FBI where the procedures used for issuing national security letters seemed to have been completely sloppy and based on erroneous fact. There doesn’t seem to be any oversight there.

What you get a sense of is a–an attorney general who saw himself as an enabler of the administration as opposed to somebody who was actually trying to look out for the American people’s interests.

And for that reason, I think it’s time for him to step down and for another attorney general who can exercise some independence to be put for the reminder of this president’s term.

Isn’t that rich…