by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
IRS employees were ordered by their superiors–including Lois Lerner who pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination rather than testify in Congress–to send certain Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
In a belated and incomplete response to the House Ways and Means Committee’s request for Internal Revenue Service documents relating to the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups for heightened scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, Acting...
by Jane Richey | May 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday. That disclosure has prompted a debate...
by Jane Richey | May 12, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Senior officials with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) knew the agency was targeting Tea Party groups as early as 2011, according to a report. The Associated Press reported Saturday that an upcoming report from a federal watchdog will find that top officials were...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. IRS agents singled out dozens of...