LEAKED: We’ve Found the IRS Internal Database Search Function
This graphic is just a parody, but the real lengths the Internal Revenue Service went through to target conservative political groups are chilling. Via the Wall Street Journal:
The Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names—as the agency admitted Friday—to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to “make America a better place to live,” according to new details of a government probe.
The investigation also revealed that a high-ranking IRS official knew as early as mid-2011 that conservative groups were being inappropriately targeted—nearly a year before then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a congressional committee the agency wasn’t targeting conservative groups.
It’s time for Democrats to condemn this awful behavior and demand a full investigation.