Pray that the truth would come out about the conduct of the IRS. Pray that any unethical and illegal actions would be discovered and properly handled.

 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. (Lk. 8:17)

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“Two top Republicans asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to take a new look at the evidence against former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner to see whether charges should still be brought against her for targeting Tea Party groups and losing key evidence in the case.

Ms. Lerner was cleared after an investigation by the Obama administration but Reps. Kevin Brady and Peter Roskam, respectively the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and the panel’s tax policy subcommittee, say there are plenty of questions with how that probe was run, and said that a new look by the Trump administration’s Justice Department is warranted. . . .

Whatever the situation with the Justice Department, the IRS is still facing legal wrangling over the targeting. A class-action lawsuit involving 428 groups that were part of the targeting is still proceeding in a federal court in Ohio, and two cases are still live in a federal court in Washington, D.C.

The IRS has been a target for the GOP for years — and the agency, under Mr. Obama, feuded back. Two years ago the agency siphoned money away from taxpayer services, leaving the vast majority of phone calls during tax season unanswered, as the agency tried to angle for more money out of the GOP-led Congress.” (Excerpted from The Washington Times, reporting by Stephen Dinan.)

“Let’s not forget the words of President Obama in February 2014 – as the Justice Department investigation of the IRS targeting scheme was still underway – who proclaimed there was “not a smidgeon of corruption” at the IRS.

Such an assertion was never based on facts. That’s why it is vitally important for the Trump Justice Department to re-open the Lois Lerner probe, as Representatives Brady and Roskam put it, ‘to assure the American people that DOJ’s prior investigation was handled fairly and to restore taxpayers’ trust in the IRS.’“(Excerpted from Fox News, commentary by Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice.)