WOW ! Who ordered the IRS to single out conservative groups for audits during 2012 campaign?

Question

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-apologizes-targeting-conservative-groups

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews.

This is incredible !!

The IRS was used as a Political Tool and somebody directed them to do so !!!!!!

Answer 1

According to your link these people went through quite an ordeal:



"They said the agency asked them an inordinate number of questions to justify their tax-exempt status."



OMFG how did they hold up under the pressure?

Answer 2

The head of the IRS? That's generally how the chain of command in an Agency works.



(Although, I had to side with the IRS on this one....how can you be a "tea party" group, yet also be tax-exempt? Political groups do not qualify as charitable or non-profit groups. If any political group asks to be tax-exempt, they're begging for an audit....unless the Tea Party has decided it's a religion? And even then political activities wouldn't be tax-exempt.)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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That's not what your article says.



"Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington."

Answer 5

The American citizens who filed these complaints.





No big conspiracy, these people are so over the top their own congregants filed complaints about their open politicking in the pulpit.

Answer 6

Since conservative groups tended to use corporate backing as opposed to grassroots.

Answer 7

I am sure they weren't the only ones that got it.