The Patriot Post® · DOJ Refuses to Convict IRS Official Lois Lerner

This is “justice” for Lois Lerner, the IRS official whose email showed she plotted to target conservative nonprofits for audits ahead of Barack Obama’s re-election. A Department of Justice investigation into the matter, headed by a Democrat donor, declared that Lerner did not deserve criminal charges. “Our investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia, leading to the belief of many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints,” the IRS wrote in a letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary Friday. “But poor management is not a crime.” Remember: Lerner has been held in contempt of Congress, called conservative talk radio hosts “a-holes” in a 2012 email, and violated privacy laws by giving IRS information to the FBI. As a result, a judge ruled in April that nearly 300 conservative nonprofits could join together in a class action lawsuit against the IRS. And Lerner herself, in a February 2012 email, expected consequences would come if her actions ever came to light. Instead, she retired, received her pension and stands unchallenged in her less-than-ethical dealings with Congress. As National Review’s Kevin Williamson wrote, the situation leaves us “one banana short of a republic.” Furthermore, there’s nothing stopping Hillary Clinton from receiving the same injustice over her handling of Benghazi.

> Update: By the way, the IRS is still targeting conservatives.