IRS
employees were “acutely” aware in 2010 that President Obama wanted to crack
down on conservative organizations and were egged into targeting tea party
groups by press reports mocking the emerging movement, according to an interim
report being circulated Tuesday by House investigators. The report, by staffers for Rep. Darrell E.
Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee, quoted two Internal
Revenue Service officials saying the tea party applications were singled
out in the targeting program that has the agency under investigation because
“they were likely to attract media attention.”
In the report, the investigators do not find evidence
that IRS
employees received orders from politicians to target the tea party, and agency
officials deny overt bias or political motives……..Read more:
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