Are Americans being desensitized to criminal acts by federal agencies as a prelude to massive cheating in the upcoming presidential election?
The deeply disturbing confirmation that the leadership of the Internal Revenue Service was aware that their agency’s resources were being used to target political opponents of the Obama Administration adds to concerns that there has been a wholesale hijacking of taxpayer funded government agencies for partisan purposes.
The tolerance of these crimes sets up the nation for a potentially explosive altercation in the coming presidential ballot.
The latest revelation, discovered by Judicial Watch through an examination of FBI documents, presents a worrisome picture, particularly when combined with other research and information about the unlawful and biased practices of various federal departments during the Obama Administration.
The incriminating documents were obtained through a federal court order in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demand.
The FBI papers show “that top Washington IRS officials, including Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, knew that the agency was specifically targeting ‘Tea Party’ and other conservative organizations two full years before disclosing it to Congress and the public. An FBI 302 document contains detailed narratives of FBI agent investigations. The Obama Justice Department and FBI investigations into the Obama IRS scandal resulted in no criminal charges.”
The failure to bring charges against those who have committed criminal acts on behalf of the Obama Administration is emerging as a consistent pattern. The most recent example is the failure to prosecute former Secretary Clinton for obvious and serious national security-related violations.
According to the released material, notes Judicial Watch, a “Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) 2013 report clearly shows that “Senior IRS officials knew that agents were targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny as early as 2011…The FBI documents also reveal that IRS officials stated that the agency was targeting conservative groups because of their ideology and political affiliation in the summer of 2011. .. IRS senior official Nancy Marks, … stated, “Cincinnati [The IRS center doing the targeting] was categorizing cases based on name and ideology, not just activity…According to the FBI documents, Paz and others were informed in the late spring and summer of 2011 that Cincinnati agents were using ‘BOLO’ (Be On the Look Out) briefing guides that instructed them to be ‘looking at cases using the Tea Party term.’”
In and of itself, the criminal actions of the Internal Revenue Service would be deeply troubling. But a pattern of such behavior across several federal departments is evident, as is the collusion of the Justice Department (DOJ) in its failure to prosecute these transgressions.
Writing for Creators, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano harshly criticized the DOJ in the most recent example of its political bias, the refusal to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her negligent handling of classified material.
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Both of these examples have served to desensitize the public about official misconduct, particularly when it comes to tampering with the election process. IRS harassment of opposition political groups, and the get-out-of-jail free card handed to presidential candidate Clinton both serve as precursors to the looming attack on a fair election process.
Numerous extensively well-credentialed researchers, including former DOJ veterans, have detailed the failure, indeed, the refusal, of the DOJ to prosecute overt and serious election misdeeds during the Obama years. J. Christian Adams, to cite just example, has written an entire book on the subject; his points have also been made by others as well. Both left and right oriented organizations (Pew, Heritage) have written about inaccurate voter registration rolls.
Hans A. von Spakovsky, writing for Heritage, has noted that one portion of the Voting Rights Act has been turned from its original purpose into a “political weapon.” He writes that “This cynical manipulation of federal power to benefit one political party over another … all-too-common … during Democratic administrations — underscores that the only real source of refuge from these political machinations is the Supreme Court.”
All of which leads to what will be the greatest challenge of the 2016 campaign, the potential for large-scale voter fraud resulting from the DOJ, at the behest of the Obama Administration, to oppose any attempt at insuring that only qualified voters registered in the place in which they are casting their ballot, actually vote.
The hypocrisy of Democrat opposition to voter ID was front and center at their recently concluded convention in Philadelphia. Breitbart notes:
“Democrats have railed against voter ID laws…but Democratic National Convention officials will only issue credentials to those who present state-issued IDs. The DNC’s website says that ‘all pickup persons must have a state-issued ID that matches the name submitted’ to receive credentials. Media members attending the DNC have to present photo IDs at multiple checkpoints. But even as Democrats require IDs to enter their convention and The Voter Integrity Project discovered there were 30,000 dead North Carolinians still on the state’s voter rolls, Democrats continue to fiercely oppose voter ID laws.”
According to Ballotpedia, ” As of July 2016, only 18 states required voters to present photo identification… In some states, a voter who is unable to present valid identification may still be permitted to vote without casting a provisional ballot.”
A 2015 report by the Washington Times noted “President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty will make it easier for illegal immigrants to improperly register and vote in elections, state elections officials testified to Congress …saying that the driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers they will be granted create a major voting loophole…secretaries of state from Ohio and Kansas said they won’t have the tools to sniff out illegal immigrants who register anyway…”
The failure of the DOJ to take appropriate action in the IRS and Clinton Server scandals, and the agency’s refusal to prosecute clear-cut cases of voting-related misconduct in the past provide the groundwork for its tolerance of wide-spread and significant fraud in the 2016 presidential balloting.