IRS Scandal Deepens as Leaks Identified

From Breitbart's Big Government:

Two new developments have severe implications for the IRS scandal.

The watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Thursday that it had obtained emails showing that former IRS official Lois Lerner gave protected information to the Federal Elections Commission.

Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee said it had identified the IRS agent who leaked National Organization for Marriage donors to gay rights activists.

Judicial Watch obtained the emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Aug. 9. They purport to show Lerner, who led the IRS Exempt Organizations division, promising full cooperation with an FEC attorney who was seeking information about the tax-exempt applications of two conservative groups, the American Future Fund (AFF) and the American Issues Project (AIP), as well as AIP's predecessor groups.

Lerner then sent "detailed, confidential information about the organizations" to the FEC, according to Judicial Watch, including tax returns and requests for exempt recognition forms.

"Under Section 6013 of the Internal Revenue Code, it is a felony for an IRS official to disclose either 'return information' or 'taxpayer return information,' even to another government agency," Judicial Watch said in a press statement.

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The IRS agent was apparently working under Lerner at the Exempt Organizations division at the time. The identity of the agent will be protected unless and until the initial violation itself is prosecuted.

Little wonder why Lerner took the 5th.