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Analyst's note:  Absolutely must see.  This should clearly illustrate the problems like the Pathetic IRS Coverup--Still in Progress we are discussing today did NOT just start.  The documented abuse of power of OUR federal government has been on-going and building now for some time because We the People have let them do so.

 

 

 

 

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Story highlights:

  • Lois Lerner, the embattled director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS, served as head of the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) enforcement division from 1986 until 2001.
  • While there, the FEC sued the Christian Coalition for allegedly conspiring with political candidates.
  • During the case, representatives for the FEC asked intrusive questions on religion of several people involved, including Lt. Col. Oliver North.
  • At one point, a representative demanded to know details regarding Pat Roberstson praying for North after reading a letter from North to Robertson indicating as much.
  • The group’s attorney also noted that during the investigation those being questioned were required to comply with “burdensome FEC document requests,” reminiscent of the IRS/Tea Party requests.
  • The Christian Coalition’s attorneys adamantly objected, and the group eventually rebuffed the charges.

See the prayer questions directed at Oliver North when Lois Lerner was at the FEC

Internal Revenue Service Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner listens during testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee May 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

New questions are being raised today about Lois Lerner and the attitude she’s taken in the past regarding conservative and Christian groups. The Weekly Standard is pointing to the questioning of people related to the Christian Coalition in the 1990s when Lerner was the head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC). In short: the FEC was investigating if the Christian Coalition was “coordinating issue advocacy expenditures with a number of candidates for office,” the Weekly Standard explains, and the questions they were asking became ridiculously intrusive — especially about faith and prayer.

The Christian Coalition successfully fought off the allegations, but not before investigators took nearly 100 depositions.

“We felt we were being singled out, because when you handle a case with 81 depositions you have a pretty good argument you’re getting special treatment,” the Christian Coalition’s attorney at the time, James Bopp, Jr., told the Weekly Standard. “Eighty-one depositions! Eighty-one! From Ralph Reed’s former part-time secretary to George H.W. Bush. It was mind blowing.”

And “mind blowing” may be the only way to describe what he detailed in a 2003 testimony before the United States Committee on House Administration [emphasis added]: [....]

 

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