Conservative columnist George Will asked the following question this weekend after the IRS's shocking admission that it had singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for tax-exempt status: What If George W. Bush's administration had decided to target "progressive" groups in the same way?
THE IRS SCANDAL GROWS BROADER AND DEEPER
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IRS TARGETED CONSERVATIVES AS EARLY AS 2010. READ I.G. REPORT.
The IRS had flagged over 100 Tea Party groups by the summer of 2011, taking aim not only at groups that used slogans like âTea Partyâ or âPatriotâ but also groups that used âgovernment debt,â âtaxesâ or, as ABC points out, âeven organizations making statements that âcriticize how the country is being run."
MORE IRS ABUSES OF POWER AGAINST CONSERVATIVE GROUPS
The hits just keep coming for the Internal Revenue Service, as the dam of revelations bursts wide open. First up: a stunning expose from left-leaning website ProPublica, which says it was handed confidential tax information on conservative groups by the office that was targeting Barack Obamaâs political enemies, to use as fodder for election-year stories:
One of the applications illegally handed out by the IRS was for Karl Roveâs group, Crossroads GPS. [Update - Jammie Wearing Fool recalls the Obama campaign's lawyer, Robert F. Bauer, demanding this sort of information about Crossroads GPS.]
