Author Topic: Fact check rips IRS official over Tea Party targeting claims (when it rains it pours)  (Read 1682 times)

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Offline ABX

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A detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official's claim that the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonprofit applications, showing the practice started well before the forms started flooding in.

The piece in The Washington Post disputed a central claim that Lois Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, and other IRS officials made as they admitted to targeting conservative groups for additional scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status.

Lerner claimed they did so in response to a "very big uptick" between 2010 and 2012 in the number of applications for a status known as 501(c)(4).

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/fact-check-rips-irs-official-over-tea-party-targeting-claims/#ixzz2TrE1AGCK


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Tomorrow Lerner has to testify.  I think they should have started with Cincinnati and worked up to her, but clearly the last time she testified she was not truthful.
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