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> Remember when the IRS was directed to audit conservative organizations

It was directed to audit them less, because they were complaining about being audited as much as other organizations. Yet another case where conservatives make themselves victims out of nowhere, to get preferential treatment and then continue pretend they were victims after proven wrong.

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Louis Lerner later apologized for subjecting the orgs to overscrutiny.

Generally apologizing to people with persecution fetishes is unhelpful. He shouldn't have apologized.

He admitted that the majority of the targeted auditing was against conservative orgs while also targeting a minority of liberal orgs. He admitted to the targeting and also that it greatly focused on conservative orgs.

I'm not against going after fraud, but you have to be even handed about it.

You can read NPR's take. They admit they targeted conservative groups but also had progressive bycatch.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555975207/as-irs-targeted-tea...

But did he admit it was because they were conservative or because they were committing more fraud?

I can't see any quotes there except claims of keyword searches. I haven't yet read the pdf.

If its true that it was based on keyword searches, then I would hope a future government gets the balls to do the same for the current Trump admin's keyword based banning/removal shenanigans.

There was no wrongdoing on his part. Only conservatives, as usually, feel like being persecuted when they cant defraud freely.

Which is why they created the most corrupt admin in history.

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