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IRS Admits Targeting Tea Party Groups

Time

by Zeke J Miller and Alex AltmanMay

The Internal Revenue Service acknowledged Friday that it had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups for additional scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle, an admission that set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill and could damage the Obama Administration.

Lois Lerner, the official in charge of the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups, revealed the move Friday at a conference sponsored by the American Bar Association in Washington. Lerner said organizations whose names contained the phrase “tea party” or “patriots” were selected for additional reviews of their 501 (c) (4) tax-exempt status as social welfare groups.

“That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate,” Lerner said, according to the Associated Press. ”That’s not how we go about selecting cases for further review.”

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Watchdog: Senior IRS Officials Knew Conservative Groups Were Being Targeted in 2011 [The Blaze] May 11, 2013

Carney: IRS Run by Bush Political Appointee [YouTube] (22 sec) May 10, 2013