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It turns out that the IRS didn't just "target" conservative groups for harassment by extra audits, delays, and investigations.
The IRS also sent confidential information on those conservative groups, to a leftist media group funded by George Soros and others. And that media group used the information during the election cycle, to smear those conservative groups, report on their "problems" with the IRS, etc.
It is flatly illegal for the IRS to send out such confidential data, of course. That doesn't seemed to have bothered them. Whether it's also illegal for the people receiving the confidential data to publish or use it, is another question.
It shows up another difference between Obama's IRS scandals and Nixon's Watergate-era IRS scnadals, for which articles of impeachment were drawn up against him. Though Nixon sent the IRS after his opponents and investigated them (itself a crime), Nixon never sent any of the information from the IRS, to anyone outside the IRS.
It's piling VERY high and deep now.
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IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica
IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica
by Josh Hicks
Published: May 14, 2013 at 6:00 am
ProPublica on Monday reported that the same IRS division that targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle provided the investigative-reporting organization with confidential applications for tax-exempt status.
That revelation contradicts previous statements from the agency and may represent a violation of federal guidelines. Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS sector that reviews tax-exemption applications, told a congressional oversight committee in April 2012 that IRS code prohibited the agency from providing information about groups that had not yet been approved.
Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) had asked Lerner in March 2012 to provide a list of all organizations that the IRS had subjected to special scrutiny.
Lerner replied that she could not legally reveal information about groups that were not approved and that identifying targeted applicants that were already approved would require additional work, specifically a manual review of each file. She did not identify any of the organizations.
The IRS also sent confidential information on those conservative groups, to a leftist media group funded by George Soros and others. And that media group used the information during the election cycle, to smear those conservative groups, report on their "problems" with the IRS, etc.
It is flatly illegal for the IRS to send out such confidential data, of course. That doesn't seemed to have bothered them. Whether it's also illegal for the people receiving the confidential data to publish or use it, is another question.
It shows up another difference between Obama's IRS scandals and Nixon's Watergate-era IRS scnadals, for which articles of impeachment were drawn up against him. Though Nixon sent the IRS after his opponents and investigated them (itself a crime), Nixon never sent any of the information from the IRS, to anyone outside the IRS.
It's piling VERY high and deep now.
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IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica
IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica
by Josh Hicks
Published: May 14, 2013 at 6:00 am
ProPublica on Monday reported that the same IRS division that targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle provided the investigative-reporting organization with confidential applications for tax-exempt status.
That revelation contradicts previous statements from the agency and may represent a violation of federal guidelines. Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS sector that reviews tax-exemption applications, told a congressional oversight committee in April 2012 that IRS code prohibited the agency from providing information about groups that had not yet been approved.
Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) had asked Lerner in March 2012 to provide a list of all organizations that the IRS had subjected to special scrutiny.
Lerner replied that she could not legally reveal information about groups that were not approved and that identifying targeted applicants that were already approved would require additional work, specifically a manual review of each file. She did not identify any of the organizations.
