The IRS Scandal, Day 1125

Wall Street Journal editorial, The IRS Hit List: The Agency Finally Discloses the Groups It Politically Targeted:

Three years on, the Internal Revenue Service has finally handed over its list of the organizations the agency’s tax-exempt division targeted for their political views. All it took to shake the disclosure from the agency were dozens of lawsuits and a federal appeals-court order.

In a court filing last month, the IRS produced a list of 426 groups that were singled out for special scrutiny and in some cases had approval of their application for tax-exempt status delayed. ... The list doesn’t include 40 groups that have already opted out of the suit, so the actual number targeted is 466. The lawsuit’s goal is to find out how the targeting occurred and to seek damages for “viewpoint discrimination,” among other legal violations.

The IRS hasn’t explained why its number is so much higher than the 298 groups that Treasury Inspector General Russell George identified in his 2013 audit that disclosed the targeting. The latest list also contains more liberal groups than Mr. George’s original report mentioned.

Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self Governance, which is financing the NorCal lawsuit, suspects this is more proof of IRS misbehavior: “I think what more discovery will show is that once the IRS came under fire, it started adding [liberal] names to obfuscate what it was doing.”

The agency wouldn’t have turned over even these names if not for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in March excoriated the IRS for stonewalling on NorCal’s discovery request and ordered the list’s release. The Senate voted to confirm IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in 2013 only after he promised to clean up the agency, yet on his watch the bureaucracy has resisted efforts by Congress and the courts to investigate the scandal. In this case, and others, the tax agency has earned all of the public enmity that comes its way.

• American Thinker, IRS Finally Releases List of Conservative Groups It Targeted
• The Blaze, IRS Releases Names of Conservative Groups It Targeted
• Daily Caller, IRS Names Hundreds Of Tea Party Groups Subjected To Extra Scrutiny
• Fox Business, IRS Releases List of Targeted Groups
• Fox News, IRS Releases List of Groups Targeted in Scandal – 3 Years Later
• The Hill, IRS Releases List of 426 Groups Targeted for Increased Scrutiny
• Hot Air, IRS Filing: We Targeted 426 Organizations, Not 298
• NewsBusters, IRS Finally Lists Tea Party Groups It Targeted
• Washington Free Beacon, IRS Releases List of Tea Party and Conservative Groups It Targeted

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