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From the Article: The Republican oversight report traces the growing pressure on the IRS to act, beginning with Mr. Obama’s criticism of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision in his 2010 State of the Union address to calls from top members of Congress for the IRS to give special scrutiny to tea party applications. Emails among IRS officials, and committee interviews with them, show agency employees were aware of the pressure, sending one another news reports and commenting — in sometimes derisive language — about the tea party applications. One key question in the political debate has been how the IRS treated progressive groups and whether they received the same treatment as tea party organizations. The committee report says the liberal groups were generally given quick approval, while some tea party applications are still awaiting approval THREE YEARS after they were submitted. “Despite repeated attempts to conflate the issues and downplay the IRS’s treatment of conservative-oriented applications, the facts are clear that the IRS systematically processed conservative-oriented applications in a wholly disparate and unique manner,” the investigators conclude. “The treatment received by Tea Party applicants was unprecedented for tax-exempt applicants engaged in political activity.” Read more: washingtontimes/news/2013/sep/17/report-irs-staff-acutely-aware-tea-party-antipathy/#ixzz2fOYK4Ozq Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 02:13:24 +0000

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