An email from former IRS tax-exemption official Lois Lerner to Richard Pilger, an official with the Justice Department’s Election Crimes Branch, shows that Lerner had asked Pilger his preference for “the disks we spoke about.”
According to the Oversight Committee, “Pilger forwarded Lerner’s email to an FBI agent, writing, ‘This is incoming data re 501c4 issues. Does FBI have a format preference?’” He then responded to Lerner, “Thanks Lois – FBI says Raw format is best because they can put it into their systems like Excel.”
“Despite an intensive investigation of targeting, the IRS had not disclosed to Congressional investigators that Lerner had sent a massive database of tax exempt organizations to the FBI for scrutiny,” reported the Oversight Committee. “Investigators only learned about the existence of the database last month in an interview with Pilger, who had discussed the possibility of prosecuting tax-exempt organizations that engaged in political activity.”
The letter from Issa and Jordan requests that the IRS immediately provide an explanation as to why the disks and all information related were withheld from Congress, and requests all communication between the IRS and any other agency regarding the disks.
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