RS and freedom of political speech under the First Amendment. The IRS targeted for special consideration -- i.e. bureaucratic harassment -- more than 200 conservative, Tea Party and evangelical groups seeking non-profit tax exemption during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns. Without that tax status, the ability of those groups to fund their participation in the political process was handicapped. Sign Up for the Morning Examiner newsletter! Then came the denials After IRS officials admitted in 2013 that the targeting and harassment had occurred, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the actions, promised to find the wrong-doers and vowed to punish them appropriately. More recently, Obama has called the IRS actions a phony scandal and Holder appointed a career Justice Department attorney with a long record as a Democratic contributor to head up the investigation of the scandal. Nobody was surprised a few weeks ago when unnamed Justice Department officials said they dont expect to prosecute anybody in the IRS scandal. Now comes McConnell Seeing all this, McConnell is now putting pressure on John Koskinen, the new IRS Commissioner, to withdraw a proposed regulation that would make the targeting and harassment of government critics a permanent feature of the tax agencys regulatory processes. McConnell told Fox News Megyn Kelly regarding Koskinen recently that he wants to see a statesman over there at the IRS. He got recently confirmed by the Senate. I had a conversation with him about this subject. Were counting on him not to be used by this White House to carry out their political agenda of quieting their critics. For further details of what is at stake in this growing furor, see Sundays Washington Examiner editorial, IRS chief should drop new rule that would silence non-profits
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