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To: i-node who wrote (798795)	8/1/2014 7:40:41 PM
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If there was overwhelming evidence of anything, Issa would have filed charges. As to Lerner taking the 5th, she had already experienced a Republican with hunt. Despite the investigations, nothing has been found that is even mildly incriminating. Everything you posted is just trying to string things together to make it look like there is smoke, when all there is is confetti... What about this line? The IRS informed the NAACP that the audit was prompted by then-NAACP-chairman Julian Bond's speech, which "condemned the administration policies of George W. Bush on education, the economy and the war in Iraq." [10] According to that well-known liberal rag, the Wall Street Journal, Public Interest Watch had tight connections with ExxonMobile Did a Group Financed by Exxon Prompt IRS to Audit Greenpeace? Email Print 0 Comments Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn smaller Larger By Steve Stecklow Updated March 21, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET Two and a half years ago, Public Interest Watch, a self-described watchdog of nonprofit groups, wrote to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to audit Greenpeace and accusing the environmental group of money laundering and other crimes. Last September, the IRS began a months-long audit of the U.S. arm of Greenpeace, known for steering its boats in the way of whaling ships and oil tankers. This month, Greenpeace says, it received notice from the IRS that the group "continues to qualify for exemption from federal income tax" as a nonprofit entity. Greenpeace says an IRS auditor told it that the PIW letter triggered the audit. The IRS won't say how it decided to audit Greenpeace. What is clear is where PIW has gotten a lot of its funding: Exxon Mobil Corp. , the giant oil company that has long been a target of Greenpeace protests. ...... In September 2003, PIW wrote to the head of the IRS urging the agency to audit Greenpeace and to challenge its tax-exempt status. PIW attached a report it published in which it accused Greenpeace of "blatant self-dealing," money laundering and other illegal activities. The letter accused Greenpeace of "laundering" more than $24 million in tax-deductible contributions by diverting them to a related entity that had held protests against the Iraq war, an oil tanker and a nuclear-power station. Greenpeace officials said an IRS auditor showed up at their Washington office Sept. 12, 2005. Mr. Passacantando said that when the auditor, Charles Walker, arrived, he pointed to a picture of an activist chained to an Exxon Mobil gas pump and said, "You guys are engaged in illegal activity and this stuff has got to stop." Mr. Walker later said the audit had been triggered by the PIW complaint, according to Mr. Passacantando.. online.wsj.com