processing would take three to four weeks, maybe two months. then in february 2012, about a year and a half after she first applied for tax exempt status, the irs requested more information. they wanted to see my twitter feed, every facebook posting i d ever posted. they wanted to know if i had political aspirations. they wanted my resume. they wanted to know, this is the one that always gets me they wanted to know everywhere i d ever spoken since the inception of the organization and to whom and what i said. when director of the irs exempt division lois lerner later asked by the house oversight committee about all the questions tea party groups were required to answer, she claimed it was in the ordinary course of the application process . those are lies. and we can prove it s not true by looking at the data and looking at the process before 2010. in october of2012 the irs
expedited process in order to find and preserve those that remained. the irs after engaging in what they claimed was due diligence in looking for e-mails asserted they no longer existed. it was later revealed that the first technician the irs assigned to search for those missing lois lerner e-mails and legally blind. the judge, siding with the government, in october 2014 dismissed her suit altogether. but since then 32,000 lerner e-mails have been found in an irs storage facility. a criminal investigation is underway and engelbrect has appealed her lawsuit. she s as determined as ever to find out the truth. regardless of your political party affiliation, the thought that the irs would be weaponized against citizens is something that should send a chill down everyone s spine. so they hope we re going to forget, we re not. when we come back, we ll
engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups then that s outrageous. and a day later attorney general eric holder announced he d ordered a justice department probe into the irs abuses. but we are examining the facts to see if there were criminal violations. the defense generally from the irs has been we re not malevolent malevolent, we re just incompetent. i sleep a lot better thinking that. in january 2014, the department of justice made it known that though its investigation has not been completed there were no plans to file criminal charges over the irs scrutiny of conservative groups. president obama had this to say to fox s bill o reilly during their super bowl sunday conversation. you re saying no corruption, none? there were some bonehead decisions. bonehead decisions but no mass corruption.