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POLITICO Breaking News!!
*Well Golly and Gee Wizz Gomer. Targeting Conservatives, who would have
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By BYRON TAU <http://www.politico.com/reporters/ByronTau.html>, LAUREN
FRENCH <http://www.politico.com/reporters/LaurenFrench.html> and TARINI
PARTI <http://www.politico.com/reporters/TariniParti.html> | 5/10/13 10:45
AM EDT <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone> Updated: 5/10/13
2:19 PM EDT
*The Internal Revenue Service <http://www.irs.gov> apologized Friday to
conservative political groups for giving their tax documents extra scrutiny
— validating the worst fears of Republican activists who have long accused
the Obama administration of politicizing the process.*
Roughly 75 groups were singled out using words like “tea party” or
“patriot” in tax documents, Lois Lerner, who is responsible for overseeing
tax-exempt groups, said on a hastily arranged conference call Friday
afternoon.
“Mistakes were made initially, but they were in no way due to any political
or partisan rationale,” the IRS said in a separate statement.
The announcement is the latest black eye for an agency that has been
criticized by members of Congress from both parties, reform groups and
conservative activists for its handling of politically active tax-exempt
nonprofits.
Senate Minority
Leader<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate>
Mitch
McConnell <http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/> called for President Barack
Obama <http://www.barackobama.com> to order a “transparent, government-wide
review” to see if similar practices are happening elsewhere in the
administration.
House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee Chairman Charles
Boustany<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boustany>told POLITICO
he will launch an “aggressive” investigation. “We’re not
going to let this rest,” the Louisiana Republican said. “We’re going to
pursue this vigorously.”
Outside groups on both sides have increasingly chosen to organize as
nonprofits — regulated and reviewed by the IRS instead of the Federal
Election Commission <http://www.fec.gov>. Their nonprofit status exempts
those groups from paying federal taxes — and unlike super
PACs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee>,
allows them to hide their donors.
Major outside groups like the Karl Rove-affiliated Crossroads
GPS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crossroads>,
Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity and the pro-Barack Obama
group Priorities USA are organized as 501(c)(4) nonprofits.
The IRS statement said the agency “should have done a better job” dealing
with the dramatic influx in applications for 501(c)(4) status. It also said
that the decisions on how to handle the applications were made by “local,
career employees in Cincinnati.”
“When we see an uptick in applications from a particular type of group…that
we don’t ordinarily see, what we do is we centralize those applications
into one group to work on them. We do this all the time,” Lerner told
reporters. “The problem here was that in some cases they added actual case
names to the list. They added ‘tea party’ and ‘patriot’ to the list of
cases that should be centralized in this group.”
Lerner said that she only began looking into the issue when the press
started writing about it last year before the election. but she declined to
say why it took six months for the agency to publicly admit the practice or
if any employees involved had been punished.
Lerner added that she was not aware if White
House<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8976694444,-77.03655%20(White%20House)&t=h>or
Treasury Department employees knew about the review before Friday’s
apology, and said she did not remember when she notified higher-ups at the
IRS.
The White House has not responded to a request for comment.
McConnell said the IRS’s apology wasn’t nearly enough. “Make no mistake, an
apology won’t put this issue to rest,” he said. “Now more than ever we need
to send a clear message to the Obama administration that the First
Amendment is non-negotiable, and that apologies after an election year are
not an sufficient response to what we now know took place at the IRS.
“This kind of political thuggery has absolutely no place in our politics,”
Read more:
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