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A collection of media reports…
Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained
- Federal government demanded a list of everyone a Tennessee organization had ever trained, or planned to train
- Linchpins of Liberty mentors high school and college students and teaches them conservative political philosophy, but is not tea-party-linked
- ‘Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?’ asked the group’s founder
- IRS Inspector General report listed seven questions the agency should never have asked, but this wasn’t one of them
The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/the-irs-wants-you-to-share-everything-91378.html#ixzz2TMesFdZT
“[This president] has prosecuted more people for leaks than every other president put together…”
Franklin Graham: IRS targeted us, too… The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama…
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/franklin-graham-irs-targeting-91362.html#ixzz2TMfadU7g
CARNEY: Just because IRS apologized doesn’t mean it did anything wrong…
Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?