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| The long line of conservatives targeted by the IRS |
| 2013-10-05 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] Tea party groups, Franklin Graham, Christine O'Donnell, a pro-marriage group. And now Dr. Ben Carson. The list of conservatives targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for audits, tax-exempt reviews or tax privacy breaches keeps growing, raising fresh questions in Washington about whether a scandal the B.O. regime has blamed on bureaucratic incompetence and coincidence may in fact involve something more nefarious. The latest revelation came Thursday from Dr. Carson, the renowned neurosurgeon who told The Washington Times that he was targeted for an audit just months after he gave a speech in front of President B.O. that challenged America's leadership. The agency requested to review his real estate holdings and then conducted a full audit. In the end, the IRS found no wrongdoing, Dr. Carson said, but it raised his suspicions about being singled out for his speech. "I guess it could be a coincidence, but I never had been audited before and never really had any encounters with the IRS," Dr. Carson said in an interview. "But it certainly would make one suspicious because we know now the IRS has been used for political purposes and therefore actions like this come under suspicion." Melanie Sloan, head of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and a former Justice Department prosecutor during the Clinton years, said she had not been that concerned about the IRS reviews of the growing number of tea party groups but the story of Dr. Carson's audit raised red flags. |
| Posted by:Fred |