Emails Raise New Questions About IRS Targeting
By John D. McKinnon
Judicial Watch, the conservative group, has landed another batch of emails from the Internal Revenue Service that raise new questions about the possible extent of alleged targeting of conservative groups.
The new documents could help stoke the IRS targeting story again, as lawmakers return to Washington next week.
Perhaps the most intriguing of the new documents shows that IRS officials had some sort of “secret research project” going that related to the donor lists it had collected – inappropriately, as it turned out – from many conservative nonprofit groups.
The IRS demanded the donor lists in the course of reviewing dozens of conservative groups’ applications for tax-exempt status starting in 2010. An inspector general found in 2013 that the IRS targeted many of those conservative groups for improper scrutiny, including the demands for donor identities. Democrats say some liberal groups eventually were caught up in the net as well.
Unfortunately, it’s not at all clear yet what this “secret research project” concerned. If the project involved the IRS systematically targeting conservative donors for extra scrutiny too – as some GOP lawmakers suspect – that’s a very big deal.
https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/04/emails-raise-new-questions-about-irs-targeting/
This is all very well, but if only Fox and online sites like Breitbart report this, it has no effect other than preaching to the already converted.
When there’s such bias in the news reporting business, where the vast majority of the news providers favor the left, then it’s no wonder the average news consumer comes away with the impression that Fox makes up its news.