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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The IRS Scandal, Day 397

IRS Logo 2Wall Street Journal, IRS Sent FBI Database on Nonprofit Groups in 2010, GOP Lawmakers Say:

The IRS transmitted a 1.1 million-page database of information concerning tax-exempt organizations to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the run-up to the 2010 election, including confidential taxpayer information that should not have been shared, according to House GOP lawmakers investigating the IRS.

The information was to be used in investigations of nonprofit groups' political activity, the lawmakers say, citing internal emails from the agencies.

The Justice Department turned over the database to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this month in response to a subpoena, officials said on Monday.

"We were extremely troubled by this new information, and by the fact that the IRS has withheld it from the committee for over a year," wrote Reps. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. "We were astonished to learn days ago from the Justice Department that these 21 disks contained confidential taxpayer information protected by federal law."

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