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Hello, I'm Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. IRS official Lois Lerner finally agreed to
testify in front of Congress.It's about time. [NOTE: After this video was filmed, Lerner invoked her 5th Amendment right and refused to testify] Still, the media and Republicans in Congress are missing the
larger picture. They keep thinking this scandal involves the nameless, faceless Tea Party
groups that have been demonized by Obama and his allies. That's why Congress needs to expand
this investigation. The real scandal is that this was a widespread
criminal conspiracy by the Obama White House to use the IRS to target, persecute, intimidate
and silence Obama's critics and political opposition.
And I believe I personally have the smoking gun to tie the Obama White House to this scandal.
Congress needs to ask Lois Lerner and other IRS officials about the targeting of individual
critics of Obama. good Americans with names and faces and families who they tried to
destroy and intimidate. People like me. That story will resonate with the American people.
That's why Obama doesn't want that story in the news. He wants this to only be about Tea
Party groups that are so unpopular. But this "IRS targets the Tea Party" story is a distraction
from a much bigger and more dangerous scandal. The real scandal will lead to the impeachment
of Barack Obama. The second of Nixon's Articles of Impeachment
was for the crime of using the IRS to punish his political opponents. Don't look now,
but we've got another Nixon in the White House. The difference is that Barack Obama's
IRS scandal makes Richard Nixon look like a minor league rookie.
Tea Parties are just one part of this widespread conspiracy. I was personally targeted along
with many others including Dr. Benjamin Carson; former GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell;
a stage 4 terminal cancer victim (after appearing on Fox News); conservative filmmakers like
Jerry Mullen (Dinesh DíSouza's partner) and Joel Gilbert; Christian ministers like Billy
Graham; Catherine Engelbrecht, who was targeted over 15 times by the IRS and other government
agencies after founding her Tea Party; and numerous prominent GOP donors. The list goes
on and on. There is a clear pattern of a criminal conspiracy
here- this was an organized crime conspiracy that would make Al Capone and the Gambino
Crime Family proud. The only question is can Obama be connected. If he can, this becomes
the biggest scandal in modern U.S. political history.
Let me tell you about my personal situation. I spent three years (2011-2013) under nonstop
attack by the IRS. I first wrote about it at Fox News last Spring.
I may not be the most high-profile Obama critic
in the country, but my opinions are read by millions at many of the most popular news,
business and political web sites in the country- like Personal Liberty. Last year my book,
The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide became a national bestseller.
The result of all of this nonstop media exposure? An unprecedented IRS attack starting in January
of 2011. This IRS attack so over-zealous and out of bounds, I was forced to hire one of
the nation's top tax law firms. My legal team took the case to tax court, where we
won a complete victory. FIVE DAYS LATER, the IRS announced a new tax audit. I'm not a
billionaire or a wheeling, dealing hedge fund CEO. Iím just a small businessman- but someone
in the Obama administration thought I needed to be silenced.
Multiple legal and tax experts confirmed they had never heard of an American taxpayer being
attacked by the IRS in such a manner only five days after winning in tax court. Furthermore,
they all agreed this could only happen if I was on Obama's Enemies List.
The attack was chilling, intimidating, and very expensive. It was meant to bleed me dry
and teach me a lesson- if you dare to criticize Obama, get ready to lose everything.
Here is where my case may differ from others. Obama and the IRS left a trail. I may have
the smoking gun to connect Obama to the scandal. SMOKING GUN NUMBER ONE.
Unlike any other IRS targets, I was Obama's classmate at Columbia University and never
hesitated to express my theories about Obama's scandals at Columbia. My commentaries and
theories were widely covered by conservative media like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn
Beck, Mike Huckabee, Bill Cunningham, and even Geraldo.
I'll leave it for you to decide, but is it possible that my criticisms of the President
hit too close to home and as his college classmate appeared all over the media hitting
him hard he noticed...I got under his skin...and Obama or his top aides (see Valerie Jarrett
or David Axelrod) ordered the IRS to make my life miserable? I think it's not only possible,
I think it's probable. Don't forget this Obama socialist cabal plays
by Chicago rules of dirty assignation politics. Also never forget they sent the IRS to attack
a stage 4 terminal cancer patient who appeared once on Fox News to criticize the President.
I made thousands of appearances in the media including dozens per year at Fox News.
Regardless of how you feel about my criticisms of the President... even if you hate me... even
if you think all of my opinions are wrong, a President can't order the IRS to target a
citizen for his political beliefs...if either Obama or his top aides gave the orders, a
crime was committed. Nixon's Articles of Impeachment make that clear.
SMOKING GUN NUMBER TWO. As my second IRS attack was winding down and
I was winning once again, the IRS auditor handling my case in California received a
very unusual phone call. On the other end of the call was one of the most important
IRS officials in the country. He called to demand the IRS auditor wrap up my case immediately.
Why was one of the top officials in the IRS interested in closing my case? Why would a
top IRS official intervene in an "unimportant" local audit? How would a top IRS official
even know about my case? What would make him take an interest? If he never saw the details
of my case, why would he be interested in closing it as quickly as possible?
I consulted several tax experts again. They all concluded that top IRS officials never
intervene in local cases unless a call is made by someone at the very top of the food
chain- either the White House or a U.S. Senator. Interestingly, this happened two weeks before
the IRS scandal broke all over the national news.
Did whoever was giving the IRS their marching orders panic and decide to bury my case before
the national media started snooping around? Did someone in the White House make that call?
SMOKING GUN NUMBER THREE. Since then Judicial Watch, the leading government
watchdog organization in the country, jumped on board my case. Judicial Watch agreed my
case looked suspiciously like a classic case of IRS persecution and intimidation ordered
by highest levels of government. They partnered with me to find out the truth- including whether
the IRS trail leads directly to the Obama White House.
Judicial Watch requested all files, records, correspondence, phone calls, etc relating
to my case on August 7, 2013, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).
By law the IRS had 30 days to comply. That was well over half a year ago. It's been
over half a year of silence. The IRS is refusing to cooperate with the
law of the United States of America. Why would the IRS risk breaking the law rather
than releasing my files? Something smells rotten in D.C.
It's not difficult to find out where this trail leads. Ask any prosecutor what comes
next. Squeeze the people at the bottom to give up the names at the top. Put them in
front of Congress and under oath and ask, Who gave the orders and why? Then, move
up the chain of command. Iím betting this case leads to the White House.
Oh and be sure to ask IRS officials what about my case is so important that they'd be willing
to break the law by refusing to respond to our Freedom of Information request.
After all that, I don't place the blame on the IRS. Obama has used them as scapegoats.
He threw the IRS under the bus. He blamed "rogue agents" out of the Cincinnati office.
He's lying through his teeth. My case involved the Las Vegas office of the IRS.
And there are no rogue agents. Most government employees are good people. Career bureaucrats
would never risk their pensions to harass or persecute taxpayers without orders from
above. The IRS employees who handled my appeals in
California and at Tax Court were honest, fair, and professional. I have nothing but good
things to say about them. The other IRS agents that tried to destroy
me were undoubtedly ordered to do so. I'm sure they felt that their careers were at
risk if they didn't follow orders from the top levels of government.
The buck stops with the Obama White House. They had all the power and the motive. That's
where the criminal act occurred. I believe the Obama White House directed this widespread
witch-hunt...not just of me but of hundreds of other critics of the President and major
GOP donors. Then when they got caught in a criminal conspiracy
they tried to distract the media with the Tea Party story and blame the little guys
at the IRS. Suddenly lower level employees just following orders were "rogue agents."
How low can you go? The IRS was used by Obama and then thrown under the bus. These agents
are victims too of an out of control tyrant as President.
Watergate proved even the President isn't above the law. This IRS scandal may yet prove
Obama isnít too big to jail. I'm Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty.
See you next week. God Bless America, a country where no one is too big to jail, not even
the President.