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IRS targeted pro-border security groups for illegal scrutiny

By Stephen Dinan Audit Report says abusive scrutiny went beyond tea party, included liberal groups The IRS singled out pro-border security groups for intrusive scrutiny along with tea party, conservative, Occupy movement and progressive organizations, the tax agency’s inspector general said in a new audit Thursday that says political targeting went even deeper than first suspected. Dozens of liberal groups were snared by the scrutiny from 2004 through 2013, and so were groups that dealt with specific issues such as immigration, health care or marijuana legalization, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said. They faced delays in having their… View Article