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Up political speech that they dont agree with. sometimes they dont agree with it because it is funded by what they call big money. more often, they just dont agree with it. what you have here, for example, is a classic effort to put pressure on conservative groups. nobody suggested these groups are corrupting officeholders. they just dont like these groups so they put them under attack. they have harassed their donors and tied them up in legal proceedings and generally attempted to make them tou...

Unless she was communicating something that wasnt publicly available, why would the fec call. she doesnt divulge anything that wasnt publicly available. >> when you first got 501 c-4 status, did you think then that you were targeted? >> no, i didnt think so. >> looking back, do you think so? >> looking back, i dont think so. where the red flag seemed to come up is in february of 2000 the. >> thats the e-mail from the fec to lois lerner at that point? >> correct. >> why do you think -- lois lerne...

Dropped or reduced at her disciplinary hearing. the outcome could be the difference between seeing danica within a matter of hours or months. >> so they read you your rights on march 15. you understand your rights? okay. so im going to charge you with the c-4. im going to dismiss the c-3 because the officer said once she gave you the directive to stop, you did stop, okay? how do you plead? >> guilty. >> jennifers guilty plea on the lesser of the two charges means she will be out of solitary in 1...

Hearing both through e-mail and social media, is that people are incredibly proud that the president talked not just about from a cultural standpoint of the challenges that black folks and black men deal with in this country, the disparity in drugs sentencing, but he also talked systematically and pushed that we need to be focusing on the gun laws in the states around the country, in particular, on the stand your ground laws, which color of change is leading a campaign to mobilize and capture th...

C-4, operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. in 1959, they said suddenly that 501 c-4s could be primarily engaged in social welfare, not exclusively, primarily. the 1964 bureaucratic change has created the problem we have today. irs agents trying to determine if an organization is primarily engaged in social welfare, which most tax attorneys representing political organizations have decided to interpret as meaning that the organization is 51% engaged in social welfare. 51% is p...

William wilkins, did it just spring into his head, i should go ahead and target these people for extra layers of scrutiny? did he get word from somebody else he should do that? did he get word from somebody at the white house? we do not know yet. we know he is a life long democrat who in 2008 helped lead the defense on jeremiah wrights church when he was being investigated by the i.r.s. he did that work, mr. wilkins said, on behalf of the case absolutely free pro bono. >>brian: this guy has an e...

>> no, i do not. >> some democrats isolated the problem the same way this program has, which is the conflict between the law as written and the 1959 regulation, written by the irs which misinterprets the law. the law, as we now know, the 501 c-4, operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. in 1959, they said suddenly that 501 c-4s could be primarily engaged in social welfare, not exclusively, primarily. the 1964 bureaucratic change has created the problem we have today. irs agents ...

>> there is no doubt that bad things happened and the fbis charge is to find out whether they were criminal or not. i have got 60 seconds left. this lawsuit that you are filing, this class action lawsuit is going to take years. its going to take a long time, correct? >> well, its interesting. we are already seeing the irs trying to do a couple things. the new acting commissionerrerrer werfel. we represent all the c 4s and c 1. we are analyzing it now. they dual that soon it doesnt affect the law...

>> there is no doubt that bad things happened and the fbis charge is to find out whether they were criminal or not. i have got 60 seconds left. this lawsuit that you are filing, this class action lawsuit is going to take years. its going to take a long time, correct? >> well, its interesting. we are already seeing the irs trying to do a couple things. the new acting commissionerrerrer werfel. we represent all the c 4s and c 1. we are analyzing it now. they dual that soon it doesnt affect the law...

Lawyer and take the fifth. >> there is no doubt that bad things happened and the fbis charge is to find out whether they were criminal or not. i have got 60 seconds left. this lawsuit that you are filing, this class action lawsuit is going to take years. its going to take a long time, correct? >> well, its interesting. we are already seeing the irs trying to do a couple things. the new acting commissionerrerrer werfel. we represent all the c 4s and c 1. we are analyzing it now. they dual that so...