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2013-10-10 -Land of the Free

White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info

[DAILYCALLER] Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller.

Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information.

Ingram attempted to counsel the White House on a lawsuit from religious organizations opposing Obamacare's contraception mandate. Email exchanges involving Ingram and White House officials -- including White House health policy advisor Ellen Montz and deputy assistant to the president for health policy Jeanne Lambrew -- contained confidential taxpayer information, according to Oversight.

The emails provided to Oversight Sherlocks by the IRS had numerous redactions with the signifier "6103."

Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code forbids a federal employee from "disclos[ing] any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an employee."

Federal employees who illegally disclose confidential taxpayer information could face five years in prison.

Federal employees who illegally disclose confidential taxpayer information could face five years in prison.

"Thanks, David. Thanks for the information on [6103]," White House official Lambrew wrote to IRS official David Fish in a July 20, 2012 exchange. "I am still hoping to understand whether the 50 percent rule is moot if the organization does not offer goods and services for sale to the general public. Do we assume that organizations like [6103] do offer goods and services for sale?"

Another email from Montz to Ingram and others refers to the "[6103] memo" and the "[6103] letter" while discussing organizations that are not required to file 990′s.

Ingram appeared before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee Wednesday and claimed she could not recall a document that contained confidential taxpayer information.

Posted by Fred 2013-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 That hundreds of IRS employees directly involved in this straightforward abuse of power aren't fired and stripped of pensions over this is a f*cking outrage. In this Administration, it's grounds for promotion.

Posted by Raj 2013-10-10 00:29|| 2013-10-10 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 If I falsify a single tax return, I'm looking at thou$and$ in fines, jail time and a loss of my CPA license. If these SOB's violate the IRS's Prime Directive (and it looks like that very well may be the case), not a god damn thing happens to them. Talk about a massive double standard. Yet our 'overlords' wonder why people buy multiple firearms and thousands of rounds of ammo.

I've just about f*cking had it with this shit...

Posted by Raj 2013-10-10 00:41|| 2013-10-10 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Little wonder the regime didn't want Ingram to testify. We appear to be coming closer and closer to 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors'.

Time to call Ms. Lerner back again.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-10 10:05|| 2013-10-10 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to call Ms. Lerner back again

And have federal prison cell ready for her if she balks.

Posted by Pappy 2013-10-10 10:37|| 2013-10-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Problem Pappy - Holder as criminal in chief will not prosecute any Dem crime.

Posted by 3dc 2013-10-10 12:58|| 2013-10-10 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 It's Congress' jurisdiction this time around, not the DoJ.

Posted by Pappy 2013-10-10 14:22|| 2013-10-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Healthcare records will be sent to whitehouse next year.

Posted by Airandee 2013-10-10 19:49|| 2013-10-10 19:49|| Front Page Top

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