Flashback: IRS Targets Conservative Groups - Leaks Info

IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/05/14/irs-released-confidential-info-on-conservative-groups-to-propublica/
Supporters of Propublica
http://www.propublica.org/about/supporters/
Planted question gambit backfires on IRS officials
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/18/irs-scandal-planted-question/2216747/
Music by Karate 'Fatal Strategies"
Report: IRS leaked confidential documents to investigative media
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/299621--report-irs-leaked-confidential-documents-to-investigative-journalists

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) leaked confidential materials submitted by some conservative groups to investigative journalists at ProPublica, the group reported on Tuesday.

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Last year, ProPublica, an investigative journalism outlet, was researching "how dozens of social-welfare nonprofits had misled the IRS about their political activity on their applications and tax returns."

As part of the investigation, "ProPublica regularly requested applications from the IRS's Cincinnati office, which is responsible for reviewing applications from nonprofits." According to the report, the same IRS office in Cincinnati that has admitted to targeting conservative groups provided confidential documents submitted by some of those nonprofit organizations to ProPublica.

"In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups," ProPublica reports. "Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six of those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)"

Among the applications sent to ProPublica was one for Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed group and one of the biggest spending conservative groups in the 2012 election cycle. Applications are supposed to remain confidential until a group's status has been determined.

Goolsbee's Mysterious Tweet About the Koch Brothers' Taxes
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/former-white-house-official-deletes-embarrassing-tweet-about-koch-brothers-taxes_731862.html

Anti-gay marriage group tells Congress that IRS leaked confidential tax information
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/04/192961/anti-gay-marriage-group-tells.html#.UbDfmNjJyHM

IRS Staff Cite Washington Link
Two Workers Tell Congress That Agency Officials Helped Direct Tea-Party Reviews
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324069104578527713122409302.html
Misfired 2010 email alerted more IRS officials to Tea Party scrutiny
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/us-usa-irs-scrutiny-idUSBRE95605X20130607