This is an article out of today's Washington Times. Very interesting....Ever wonder who is next in the IRS list of "Right Wing Wacho's"? May be the Firing Line participants???
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000830234149.htm
The woman who sharply questioned Vice President Al Gore at a town-hall meeting about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against President Clinton has become the subject of an inquiry by the Internal Revenue Service. "I find it very suspicious," said Katherine Prudhomme, who subjected Mr. Gore to several long, uncomfortable minutes of questioning about the Broaddrick case in December. "I feel like I'm being harassed." Mrs. Prudhomme said she was notified of the IRS inquiry on Aug. 18, one day before she delivered a long-planned speech about Mrs. Broaddrick outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaignheadquarters in New York. After the speech, she walked intothe headquarters and gave a videotapeof Mrs. Broaddrick's NBC interview toa campaign aide, asking that it beforwarded to Mrs. Clinton.
Although the IRS did not initiate a formal audit of Mrs.Prudhomme, the tax agency has demanded expense forms pertainingto her daughter's schooling in 1998. "My taxes are far too simple for them to audit me," she told TheWashington Times. "So they said I owe them $1,500 if I don't comeup with these forms from my child's school that I sent in two yearsago and that they must have lost. It doesn't make sense."
Mrs. Prudhomme, a homemaker in Derry, N.H., is doublysuspicious because in June she accused the IRS of auditing Mrs.Broaddrick's nursing home business "for political reasons." The accusation was contained in an op-ed newspaper column thatalso questioned audits of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers andElizabeth Ward Gracen, all of whom have accused Mr. Clinton ofsexual affairs or advances. "We certainly don't target people" for political reasons, said an IRS spokesperson who asked to remain anonymous. "The IRS strictlyadheres to a standard of reviewing cases only when there arequestions involving tax law. No other factors enter into ourprocedures."
Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera said: "We have nothing to do withthe IRS or its activities." The Prudhomme case recalls the case of Glenn and PatriciaMendoza, who were attending a festival in Chicago in July 1993 whenthey encountered Mr. Clinton, who staged an impromptu visit toshake hands with voters. Mrs. Mendoza was the first person thepresident approached, but she refused to shake his hand. "You suck, and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza told Mr. Clinton, referring to the June 1993 truck-bombing at a U.S. barracks in SaudiArabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. After the president departed, the Secret Service apprehended theMendozas, who were accused of unruliness. They were arrested byChicago police and later investigated by the IRS. After the tax agency's inquiry was publicized by The Times, the IRS dropped thematter, blaming it on a "computer error."
Yesterday, Mr. Mendoza said he was not surprised that Mrs.Prudhomme has been targeted. He said he sympathizes with her plight because IRS secrecy makesit impossible to prove the tax agency is motivated by reasons ofpolitics rather than finance. "Nobody believes you - that's the hard part," he said. "It soundslike you're a nut case. And so they're really in a quite unique positionto keep doing this to people."
In an effort to find concrete evidence of political motivation, Mrs.Prudhomme has enlisted Judicial Watch, a conservative legalfoundation that has long been a thorn in the Clinton-Goreadministration's side.
Yesterday, Judicial Watch invoked the Freedom of InformationAct in requesting any documents pertaining to Mrs. Prudhomme thatmight exist in the offices of Mr. Gore, Mr. Clinton, the IRS, the SecretService and the FBI. "We blanketed everybody," said Judicial Watch chairman LarryKlayman. "There's an eerie symmetry here in that our client, Juanita Broaddrick, gets a tax audit after she sues the White House." The Clinton-Gore IRS has targeted the National Rifle Associationand numerous conservative organizations and individuals who havecrossed the administration. The audits sparked the first congressional inquiry of accusationsof political abuses by the IRS since the Nixon era, although the taxagency has steadfastly denied political motivations.
Mrs. Prudhomme, a self-described "rape survivor," flummoxed Mr.Gore during the town-hall meeting by asking him if he believed Mrs.Broaddrick's claim that Mr. Clinton once raped her. Last year'sinterview of Mrs. Broaddrick by NBC's Lisa Myers electrified thenation, 80 percent of whom told pollsters they believed her story. "My question to you is not a question about you being apresidential candidate, but a question to you as a husband, a fatherand a student of Christianity," Mrs. Prudhomme told the vicepresident. "When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I foundto be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton, did it changeyour opinion about him being one of the best presidents in history? "And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim?" she added."And what did you tell your son about this?" "Well, I didn't know what to make of her claim, because I don'tknow how to evaluate that story," Mr. Gore replied. "I didn't see theinterview. . . . What show was it on?" Mr. Gore went on to defend his boss. "Whatever mistakes he made in his personal life are, in the mindsof most Americans, balanced against what he has done in his publiclife as president," he said. "I'm taught in my religious tradition to hatethe sin and love the sinner. I'm taught that all of us are . . . prone tothe mistakes that flesh is heir to." Mrs. Prudhomme was employed at a musical instrument factory in1998, although she currently spends her time home-schooling herdaughter.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000830234149.htm
The woman who sharply questioned Vice President Al Gore at a town-hall meeting about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against President Clinton has become the subject of an inquiry by the Internal Revenue Service. "I find it very suspicious," said Katherine Prudhomme, who subjected Mr. Gore to several long, uncomfortable minutes of questioning about the Broaddrick case in December. "I feel like I'm being harassed." Mrs. Prudhomme said she was notified of the IRS inquiry on Aug. 18, one day before she delivered a long-planned speech about Mrs. Broaddrick outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaignheadquarters in New York. After the speech, she walked intothe headquarters and gave a videotapeof Mrs. Broaddrick's NBC interview toa campaign aide, asking that it beforwarded to Mrs. Clinton.
Although the IRS did not initiate a formal audit of Mrs.Prudhomme, the tax agency has demanded expense forms pertainingto her daughter's schooling in 1998. "My taxes are far too simple for them to audit me," she told TheWashington Times. "So they said I owe them $1,500 if I don't comeup with these forms from my child's school that I sent in two yearsago and that they must have lost. It doesn't make sense."
Mrs. Prudhomme, a homemaker in Derry, N.H., is doublysuspicious because in June she accused the IRS of auditing Mrs.Broaddrick's nursing home business "for political reasons." The accusation was contained in an op-ed newspaper column thatalso questioned audits of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers andElizabeth Ward Gracen, all of whom have accused Mr. Clinton ofsexual affairs or advances. "We certainly don't target people" for political reasons, said an IRS spokesperson who asked to remain anonymous. "The IRS strictlyadheres to a standard of reviewing cases only when there arequestions involving tax law. No other factors enter into ourprocedures."
Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera said: "We have nothing to do withthe IRS or its activities." The Prudhomme case recalls the case of Glenn and PatriciaMendoza, who were attending a festival in Chicago in July 1993 whenthey encountered Mr. Clinton, who staged an impromptu visit toshake hands with voters. Mrs. Mendoza was the first person thepresident approached, but she refused to shake his hand. "You suck, and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza told Mr. Clinton, referring to the June 1993 truck-bombing at a U.S. barracks in SaudiArabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. After the president departed, the Secret Service apprehended theMendozas, who were accused of unruliness. They were arrested byChicago police and later investigated by the IRS. After the tax agency's inquiry was publicized by The Times, the IRS dropped thematter, blaming it on a "computer error."
Yesterday, Mr. Mendoza said he was not surprised that Mrs.Prudhomme has been targeted. He said he sympathizes with her plight because IRS secrecy makesit impossible to prove the tax agency is motivated by reasons ofpolitics rather than finance. "Nobody believes you - that's the hard part," he said. "It soundslike you're a nut case. And so they're really in a quite unique positionto keep doing this to people."
In an effort to find concrete evidence of political motivation, Mrs.Prudhomme has enlisted Judicial Watch, a conservative legalfoundation that has long been a thorn in the Clinton-Goreadministration's side.
Yesterday, Judicial Watch invoked the Freedom of InformationAct in requesting any documents pertaining to Mrs. Prudhomme thatmight exist in the offices of Mr. Gore, Mr. Clinton, the IRS, the SecretService and the FBI. "We blanketed everybody," said Judicial Watch chairman LarryKlayman. "There's an eerie symmetry here in that our client, Juanita Broaddrick, gets a tax audit after she sues the White House." The Clinton-Gore IRS has targeted the National Rifle Associationand numerous conservative organizations and individuals who havecrossed the administration. The audits sparked the first congressional inquiry of accusationsof political abuses by the IRS since the Nixon era, although the taxagency has steadfastly denied political motivations.
Mrs. Prudhomme, a self-described "rape survivor," flummoxed Mr.Gore during the town-hall meeting by asking him if he believed Mrs.Broaddrick's claim that Mr. Clinton once raped her. Last year'sinterview of Mrs. Broaddrick by NBC's Lisa Myers electrified thenation, 80 percent of whom told pollsters they believed her story. "My question to you is not a question about you being apresidential candidate, but a question to you as a husband, a fatherand a student of Christianity," Mrs. Prudhomme told the vicepresident. "When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I foundto be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton, did it changeyour opinion about him being one of the best presidents in history? "And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim?" she added."And what did you tell your son about this?" "Well, I didn't know what to make of her claim, because I don'tknow how to evaluate that story," Mr. Gore replied. "I didn't see theinterview. . . . What show was it on?" Mr. Gore went on to defend his boss. "Whatever mistakes he made in his personal life are, in the mindsof most Americans, balanced against what he has done in his publiclife as president," he said. "I'm taught in my religious tradition to hatethe sin and love the sinner. I'm taught that all of us are . . . prone tothe mistakes that flesh is heir to." Mrs. Prudhomme was employed at a musical instrument factory in1998, although she currently spends her time home-schooling herdaughter.