Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

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Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea-party-affiliated groups, the documents show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_print.html

[_MeDotOrg]

I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.

[_Bret Ripley]

I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.

Exactly.

[_Res Ipsa]

I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.

This liberal agrees.

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This liberal agrees.

Then you're on the way out of liberalism as that philosophy requires a dictatorship to implement. Now if you had said "classic liberal", that would be another story.

[_Res Ipsa]

This liberal agrees.

Then you're on the way out of liberalism as that philosophy requires a dictatorship to implement. Now if you had said "classic liberal", that would be another story.

You and Humpty Dumpty....

[_ajax18]

I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.

This liberal agrees.

I can't help but have a lot of respect for that.

[_Res Ipsa]

Thanks, Ajax. The IG report is online now.

[_Brackite]

IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo

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