Riddle me this..............
For a group to use the IRS, ATF, FBI, NSA, CIA to target people who don't politically agree with them is THAT HATE?
The IRS has ADMITTED it TARGETED Conservative Groups. And many of these were Audited, raided by the ATF, and FBI simply because they applied to a Non Profit Tax Free Status...........................
What does it take to understand to use our Gov't agencies to ATTACK AMERICAN CITIZENS is HATE...........
Those attacked have fought back...........and are doing it by LEGAL means...........and ARE WINNING............
Justice Department settles with conservative groups over IRS scrutiny
The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement with dozens of conservative groups that claimed the Internal Revenue Service unfairly scrutinized them based on their political leanings when they sought a tax-exempt status, court documents showed.
In a pair of lawsuits filed in federal court in 2013, the conservative groups accused the IRS of targeting organizations with such words as “Tea Party” or “patriots” when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status starting in 2010.
The sides asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday to issue a declarative judgment in one of the cases
involving 41 plaintiffs that would say the IRS was wrong to apply the United States tax laws based on an entity’s name, position or association with a particular political movement.
”We hope that today’s settlement makes clear that this abuse of power will not be tolerated,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement on Thursday.
The
IRS admitted it was wrong when it based screenings of the groups’ applications on their names or policy positions, subjected the groups to heightened scrutiny and delays and demanded unnecessary information from the groups, the agreement in the Washington case said.
The IRS “expresses its sincere apology,” it said.
A request to halt the other case, a
class action suit involving 428 members, was filed in a federal court in Ohio.