Posted on 05/14/2013 2:00:12 PM PDT by Nachum
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that he's ordered a Justice Department probe into an IRS program that singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for additional scrutiny in their applications for tax-exempt status.
Holder announced the investigation during a press conference in Washington. He said the FBI was coordinating with the Department of Justice to see if any laws were broken. He called the practice "outrageous and unacceptable," echoing remarks from President Obama a day earlier.
The probe comes as newly obtained documents show the current IRS chief knew about the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups as early as May 2012 and other officials in Washington were clued in more than a year before that.
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I feel really good knowing that Holder is in charge of this. I’m sure nothing will be found and all will be good.
Nothing to see, move along.
FLASH-Holder to investigate Fast and Furious.
Says report must be ready not later than March, 2035.
Too bad Muslims don’t hate the IRS as much as real Americans.
Maybe they need maps to the IRS buildings. What could go wrong they are the ROP after all.
holder is part of the problem, not the corrective to the problem. The problem being corruption in the “executive branch.”
OJ looking for the real killer.
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