all PB

>>16826180

>Just to put the PB Thibault dig in perspective, it was in a similar time frame for the HRC server 'investigation' starring another Special Agent, Peter Strzok AND the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2013 t o 2015, Dana Boente. Was also a similar timeline to what oldfags will remember re: Screwball dates on the FBI HRC paperwork.

anon, did you notice this nugget? posted it late in the bread. Timmy travelled to Czech with theOhrs

>>16825550

>traveled to the Czech Republic to attend the same seminar with Bruce and Nellie Ohr in February 2016.”

>>16826716

shipping it to the chinks again?

>>16826700

>>16826760

>>16826760

>Fuck the Recount, DO A FORENSIC AUDIT

>She needs a forensic audit, it is not just the numbers, but where they originated.

The way they made it sound, a hand recount will expose the scam. The way Odonell explained it, they think it's straight machine fraud.

Tina said check her report number 3

to see what they did.

Said it last night…They need to call in the Math nerd professor with the bow tie to dumb this down for mathtards. Odonnel and Draza and high IQ mathfags but have a hard time explaining to non mathfags

>>16826763

> with theOhrs

>>16825264 PB

>also singled out Justice Department official Richard Pilger

>>16825261 PB

>a senior FBI agent at the bureau's Washington Field office. An earlier letter from Grassley identified the agent as Timothy Thibault.

Interdasting

< https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/10/933395215/head-of-doj-s-election-crimes-unit-steps-down-after-barr-oks-election-inquiries

Head Of DOJ's Election Crimes Unit Steps DownAfter Barr OKsElection Inquiries

November 10, 202011:18 AM ET

Richard Pilger resigned as head of the Justice Department's election crimes branch Monday night, protesting Attorney General William Barr's memo authorizing federal prosecutors to pursue allegations of voting irregularities.

Barr's policy is seen as a step toward validating President Trump's baseless attacks on the integrity of an election in which he has been declared the loser.

Pilger said Barr's memorandum breaks with the Justice Department's policy on avoiding interference with elections that has stood for 40 years. The policy had set a high bar for launching a public investigation into any election that has not yet been certified. Important deadlines to certify the U.S. presidential election arrive in December.

Pilger announced his resignation from his leadership role in a letter to colleagues and staff. The letter was shared online by Vanita Gupta, the former head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

The letter reads, in part:

"Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications, and in accord with the best tradition of the John C. Keeney Award for Exceptional Integrity and Professionalism (my most cherished Departmental recognition), I must regretfully resign from my role as Director of the Election Crimes Branch. I have enjoyed very much working with you for over a decade to aggressively and diligently enforce federal criminal election law, policy and practice without partisan fear or favor. I thank you for your support in that effort."

The department's longstanding policy urges extreme caution in starting a public investigation before an election has been officially concluded in part because doing so could chill legitimate voting and campaign activities. It also "runs the significant risk of interjecting the investigation itself as an issue, both in the campaign and in the adjudication of any ensuing election contest," according to the government's guidelines for prosecuting election offenses.

That document adds:

"Accordingly, overt criminal investigative measures should not ordinarily be taken in matters involving alleged fraud in the manner in which votes were cast or counted until the election in question has been concluded, its results certified, and all recounts and election contests concluded."

The most recent edition of the Justice Department guide, issued in 2017, runs nearly 300 pages. Pilger was its editor.

Because of the sensitive nature of the election process, the policy has long required a U.S. attorney's office to consult the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section before moving beyond a preliminary investigation.

On Monday, Barr, one of Trump's most steadfast allies, authorized federal prosecutors to pursue "substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities" in U.S. states. He criticized the existing guidance, calling it "a passive and delayed enforcement approach."

Barr qualified his stance by requiring any inquiries or reviews to be based on "clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities" that could — if proven true — affect the outcome of a federal election in an individual state. The attorney general also said his memo should not be taken to suggest the Justice Department has "concluded that voting irregularities have impacted the outcome of any election."

Despite those caveats, Barr's policy is regarded as contributing to Trump's "disinformation campaign about voting," as NPR reported Monday night. And former Justice Department officials were quick to criticize the memo as overtly partisan.

>>16827018

>Richard Pilger

looks like Barr didn't see any evidence of fraud because of cunts like Pilger.

Don Jr accuses head of DOJ election crimes unit of being 'Deep State' after he resigns in protest over Bill Barr authorizing prosecutors to pursue 'substantial allegations' of voter fraud despite little evidence

William Barr sent a memo to allow federal prosecutors to investigate 'substantial allegations' of voter fraud

Within hours Richard Pilger, Justice Department official who oversees investigations of voter fraud, resigned

Trump's son, Don Jr, was quick to criticize Pilger online and accused him of being a member of the Deep State

The president has vowed to fight the expected electoral defeat in the courts

And President Donald Trump's son, Don Jr, was quick to criticize Pilger.

He wrote: 'Wait. Seriously?Isn’t this the guy who was involved with the IRS and Lois Lerner in targeting conservatives and the Tea Party?Maybe that’s why he hasn’t done s**t at DOJ. #deepstate'

Trump Jr's tweet refers to a scandal known as the 'IRS targeting controversy', when the department began targeting new tax-exempt groups following a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allowed them to funnel money into politics.

An investigation into the scandal revealed that groups with 'Tea Party' and associated terms in their names had been put on an IRS list that singled them out for extra scrutiny, leading to accusations of bias.

Lois Lerner, then head of the tax-exempt division at the IRS, had spoken with Richard Pilger over email in 2010, during his first year as head of the election crimes branch of the DoJ.

In the exchange - which came shortly before the midterm elections - they spoke about the possibility of prosecuting groups for abusing their tax-exempt status.

The pair also met around the same time - a meeting was later scrutinized in Congress. Lerner eventually pleaded the Fifth.

Pilger submitted his resignation Monday evening shortly after his boss, Barr, announced the unprecedented federal support for the election investigations - a move which would delight Donald Trump.

In his resignation email, Pilger said Barr's memo was 'an important new policy abrogating the forty-year-old Non-Interference-Policy for ballot fraud investigations in the period prior to elections becoming certified and uncontested.'

He said his resignation was 'in accord with the best tradition of the John C. Keeney Award for Exceptional Integrity and Professionalism (my most cherished Departmental recognition).'

Pilger, whose 25-year career has been devoted to election crimes and public corruption, told his colleagues in the email on Monday evening that he was quitting, in a sign of how worried many within the legal community are at Barr's unprecedented behavior.

Barr's action comes days after Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump and raises the prospect that Trump will use the Justice Department to try to challenge the outcome.

It gives prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election is formally certified.

In his memo, Barr argues that the existing 'passive and delayed enforcement approach' could undermine the vote.

He says that the precedent should be ignored, and investigations conducted rigorously before the certification of votes on December 8.

'In instances where they are consulted, the ECB's (Election Crimes Branch) general practice has been to counsel that overt investigative steps ordinarily should not be taken until the election in question has been concluded, its results certified and all recounts and election contests concluded,' he wrote.

>>16827018

>>16827044

Prior Dig

PB Below

Grassley Whistleblower and Spec. Agent Thibault diggz

>>16825198 Herridge: Highly credible whistlblowers widespread effort to discredit negative Hunter Biden stories

>>16825261, >>16825264 Herridge tweet timestamp and article. An FBI headquarters team participated in a scheme to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation Grassley claimed.

FBI Tim Thibault and DOJ Richard Pilger named

>>16825328 Tim Thibault was Keynote Speaker at Hungarian Chamber of Commerce event

>>16825356 Thibault Rolled up a democrat in a RICO case

>>16825370 TT talking Covid scams

>>16825289 Newsmax article on Grassley letter in May

>>16825550 Thibault traveled to the Czech Republic to attend the same seminar with Bruce and Nellie Ohr in February 2016

>>16825512 Thibault Possibly Bait? Tweets called out Barr, said to 'focus on the pedos', called Dick Cheney 'a disgrace'

Grassley letter and Spec. Agent Thibault diggz

>>16825717 Here is the body of Grassley’s statements,

>>16826180 Thibault dig in perspective, it was in a similar time frame for the HRC server 'investigation' starring another Special Agent, Peter Strzok AND the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2013 t o 2015, Dana Boente

>>16827062

if you want to add Dick Pilger

>>16827052, >>16827018, >>16827044 Maga Bun Grassley Whistleblower and Spec. Agent Thibault, DOJ Richard Pilger diggz

>>16827062

and ty Baker

>>16826655

Published:May 22, 2014

Testimony: In 2010, Justice Department Sought Lois Lerner’s Help to Prosecute Tax Exempt Groups Engaging in Politics

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, today requested that the Department of Justice make DOJ Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith available for a transcribed interview. The request comes after Smith’s subordinate, Director of DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch, Richard Pilger, told Committee investigators in a transcribed interview that the Justice Department met with Lois Lerner in October 2010,two and a half years earlier than previously known, to discuss potential criminal enforcement relating to political speech of nonprofit groups in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

“The Committee’s transcribed interview ofRichard Pilgerpresents further troubling information about the Department’s contemplated prosecution of nonprofit groups for false statements,” Chairman Issa and Chairman Jordan state in the letter. “It is apparent that the Department’s leadership, including Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith, was closely involved in engaging with the IRSin wake of Citizens United and political pressure from prominent Democrats to address perceived problems with the decision.”

“According to Mr. Pilger,” the letter continues, “the Justice Department convened a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner in October 2010 to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits. 'This meeting was arranged at the direction of Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith.”

The meeting occurred days before Lois Lerner spoke at a Duke University event about the immense political pressure on the IRS to “fix the problem” created by Citizens United before the 2010 midterm election.

Earlier this week, Chairman Issa issued a subpoena afterPilger declined to answer critical questionson the instructions of a Justice Department lawyer during a transcribed interview on May 6, 2014. The subpoena followed an April 23, 2014 letter from 17 Members of the Committee requesting materials concerning the Department’s involvement in efforts to scrutinize tax-exempt applicants afteremails surfaced between Pilger and the Internal Revenue Service’s Lois Lerner where they discussed singling out and prosecuting tax-exempt applicants, at the__ urging of a Democratic Senator.__

Letter embedded below.

> https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/testimony-2010-justice-department-sought-lois-lerners-help-prosecute-tax-exempt-groups-engaging-politics/

>>16827180

> at the urging of a Democratic Senator.

Of course it was this homo

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

No Wonder the IRS is Losing Emails: It Was Trying to Throw Conservatives in Jail

By David French, CP Guest Contributor

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The IRS is announcing the "loss" of mass numbers of e-mails (do they have any computers that don't crash?) even as the e-mails that do exist are beginning to show the extent of IRS corruption. Let's take this exchange (previously uncovered by Judicial Watch) between Lois Lerner, the director of exempt organizations at the IRS, and Nikole Flax, then the IRS commissioner's chief of staff. (To be clear, these are not "low level" employees.)

First, here's Lerner on May 8, 2013, literally two days before last year's fake apology for IRS tea-party targeting:

I got acall today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ. I know him from contacts from my days there. He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s could talk to about[Rhode Island Democrat] Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together false statement cases about applicants who "lied" on their 1024s –saying they weren't planning on doing political activity, and then turning around and making large vis ible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any damage this might do to IRS programs.

I told him that sounded like we might need several folks from IRS. I am out of town all next week, so wanted to reach out and see who you think would be right for such a meeting and also hand this off to Nan as contact person if things need to happen while I am gone –

Translation: The Obama Justice Department was reaching out to the Obama IRS to see if it could "piece together" prosecutions of nonprofits even before any evidence of wrongdoing emerged.

And how did Nikole Flax respond? By suggesting that even more federal agencies get involved:

I think we should do it – also need to include CI, which we can help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to FEC. Does it make sense to consider including them in this or keep it separate?

In other words, rather than asking the DOJ whether it possessed any evidence of wrongdoing by American citizens engaged in constitutionally protected activities, two senior officials in the Obama IRS (including one,Lois Lerner, who "joked" about wanting to work for Organizing For Action, also known as BarackObama.com) pushed forward the effort to launch a multi-agency criminal probe, involving even the FEC. Oh, and keep in mind that this e-mail exchange occurred literally years after the IRS claimed it had ended all tea-party targeting.

And in the last few days we learn the IRS has "lost" e-mails from - among others - Lois Lerner and Nikole Flax. What a remarkable coincidence.

The scale of the wrongdoing is staggering. Targeting Americans for criminal investigation without evidence, attempting to enlist multiple federal agencies in the effort, selective audits, selective disclosures of confidential documents, selective questioning and delays of nonprofit applicants - all in the service of suppressing dissent. At the ACLJ, I'm one of the attorneys in our litigation - on behalf of 41 conservative groups in 22 states - against the IRS and key IRS officials.

As of today, we're putting the DOJ, FEC, and even key Democratic senators on notice: They're bound by law to preserve any communications with IRS officials that would be discoverable in our lawsuit.

The administration's misconduct and its cover-up are so brazen, so contemptuous of common sense and the truth, that they will - once and for all - put the media and the Left to the test: When it comes to this administration, does the rule of law matter at all? Does the truth matter at all? Or is it all about ideology now?

I know how they'll respond, and I fear for the future of our democracy. They fight us today - by virtually any means necessary - so their government of the Left, by the Left, and for the Left shall not perish from the Earth.

> https://www.christianpost.com/news/no-wonder-the-irs-is-losing-emails-it-was-trying-to-throw-conservatives-in-jail.html

>>16827052

moar >>16827180, >>16827268