Clinton Facing Criminal Probe | IRS Scandal

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Clinton Facing Criminal Probe - The media's conventional wisdom on Hillary Clinton's email scandal (her use of a private server while secretary of state) is that it is a non-issue that will blow over and do no damage to her presidential prospects. After all, how many scandals have the Clintons weathered?

But recent polls indicate that Mrs. Clinton has suffered incredible damage. Voters do not trust her and she is losing key swing states. Today's news will only compound her troubles.

The New York Times reports that two government inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to launch a criminal probe into the former secretary of state's handling of classified material.

Clinton insists she did nothing wrong and never handled classified information on her personal server. Yet the Times reports that as State Department officials began reviewing the first 3,000 emails they received from Mrs. Clinton, they found 24 that had to be redacted and "retroactively classified."

According to a June 29th memo from the inspectors general, Clinton's personal email server likely held "hundreds of potentially classified emails."

I am under no illusions that Obama's Justice Department will actually prosecute Hillary Clinton. But it may not have to.

The simple fact that Hillary is facing a criminal probe by the Justice Department could be enough to spur Joe Biden to run or cause Hillary's support to erode.

Here's something else to consider. There's a debate raging right now over Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. Everyone who is pro-Israel is against the deal. Hillary has been telling Jewish audiences that she will be better for Israel than Obama. But where is Hillary Clinton now?

She quickly endorsed the deal the day it was announced, but since we have started to learn more about the deal's deficiencies, Clinton has been unusually quiet.

No doubt she knows what happened to the last Democratic senator to seriously challenge this administration. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a fierce critic of Obama's Iran policy and this terrible deal, is also facing a criminal probe by the Justice Department. Coincidence?

IRS Scandal - President Obama was asked about the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal this week on one of his favorite "news" outlets -- the "Daily Show" on Comedy Central. Here's what he said:

"The truth of the matter is that there was not some big conspiracy there. . . . The real scandal around the IRS is that they have been so poorly funded. . ."The truth is often the exact opposite of whatever Obama says, like being able to keep your doctor, Obamacare not being a tax and that he believes marriage is a "sacred union" between a man and a woman.

Yes, there was a conspiracy to target the Tea Party. Lois Lerner apologized for it but has since refused to testify about her role in it.

More evidence emerged this week that conservative donors were targeted for individual tax audits by the IRS based on the contributor lists that the agency inappropriately demanded from the very groups it was targeting.

But wait. . . there's more!

A damning new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office declared that the IRS' auditing procedures are terribly flawed, resulting in groups being audited "in an unfair manner . . . based on an organization's religious, educational, political or other views."

And Obama thinks the IRS just needs more of your money.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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