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True the Vote won its lengthy court battle against the IRS.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/06/true-vote-wins-battle-irs-judge-orders-tax-agency-pay-legal-fees-decade-long-fight/</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/08/true-the-vote-wins-historic-2-million-settlement-against-irs/</ref>  Catherine Engelbrecht and her organization True the Vote's case is connected to the political surveillance operation used against presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]].  The 2010 program to weaponize the IRS ([[Obama IRS scandal]]) was the precursor to the 2012 program to weaponize and abuse the NSA's FISA database.  The [[Secret Research Project]] originated as a term in the Obama team. It involved the U.S. Department of Justice under [[Eric Holder]] and the [[FBI]] under [[Robert Mueller]]. Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD-ROM: The IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The transaction occurred in October 2010. The evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/04/a-transparent-conflict-of-interest-treasury-secretary-jack-lew-blocks-white-houseirs-email-release/</ref>

True the Vote won its lengthy court battle against the IRS.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/06/true-vote-wins-battle-irs-judge-orders-tax-agency-pay-legal-fees-decade-long-fight/</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/08/true-the-vote-wins-historic-2-million-settlement-against-irs/</ref>  Catherine Engelbrecht and her organization True the Vote's case is connected to the political surveillance operation used against presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]].  The 2010 program to weaponize the IRS ([[Obama IRS scandal]]) was the precursor to the 2012 program to weaponize and abuse the NSA's FISA database.  The [[Secret Research Project]] originated as a term in the Obama team. It involved the U.S. Department of Justice under [[Eric Holder]] and the [[FBI]] under [[Robert Mueller]]. Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD-ROM: The IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The transaction occurred in October 2010. The evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/04/a-transparent-conflict-of-interest-treasury-secretary-jack-lew-blocks-white-houseirs-email-release/</ref>

The enforcement mechanism used for targeting included the DOJ and various other government agencies (ATF, OSHA, EEOC, EPA Banking/Finance).  Cause of Action (CoA) made a [[FOIA]] request  to the IRS for documents shared between the IRS and the White House. The request was to gain documents illegally shared between the White House and the IRS.  Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew blocked the FOIA request from being released, an apparent [[conflict of interest]]. Lew was White House [[Chief of Staff]] in 2012 when the Secret Research Project was conceived.

The enforcement mechanism used for targeting included the DOJ and various other government agencies (ATF, OSHA, EEOC, EPA Banking/Finance).  Cause of Action (CoA) made a [[FOIA]] request  to the IRS for documents shared between the IRS and the White House. The request was to gain documents illegally shared between the White House and the IRS.  Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew blocked the FOIA request from being released, an apparent [[conflict of interest]]. Lew was White House [[Chief of Staff]] in 2012 when the Secret Research Project was conceived. FISA chief judge Rosemary Collyer determined illegal [[Obama FISA abuse]] of the NSA database by the FBI, and [[Fourth Amendment]] violations began in 2012, and were the result of "deliberate decision making."

:*FISA chief judge Rosemary Collyer determined illegal [[Obama FISA abuse]] of the NSA database by the FBI, and [[Fourth Amendment]] violations began in 2012, and were the result of "deliberate decision making."

===2016 Presidential election===

===2016 Presidential election===