'Large-scale corruption': Judicial Watch reports IRS targeting went even deeper

Sarah D. | 6:06 PM on July 22, 2015

Yeah, so remember how yesterday, President Obama confessed to Jon Stewart that there is indeed an IRS scandal? That is, that the IRS is “poorly funded”?

Well, according to Judicial Watch, it was funded well enough to target even more right-leaning groups and donors than previously thought:

BREAKING: Not just small conservative tea partiers targeted by the #IRS, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads GPS also scrutinized.

— Gerri Willis (@GerriWillisFBN) July 22, 2015

#BREAKINGNEWS #IRS targeted conservative donors for audits, re: Judicial Watch

— Gerri Willis (@GerriWillisFBN) July 22, 2015

PROOF: New Documents Uncovered by @JudicialWatch Show #IRS Used Donor Lists to Target Audits: http://t.co/nOKGk9UFMA

— Judicial Watch ? (@JudicialWatch) July 22, 2015

More from Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that confirm that the IRS used donor lists to tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits. The documents also show IRS officials specifically highlighted how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may come under “high scrutiny” from the IRS. The IRS produced the records in a Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking documents about selection of individuals for audit-based application information on donor lists submitted by Tea Party and other 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations (Judicial Watch v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:15-cv-00220)).

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“These documents that we had to force out of the IRS prove that the agency used donor lists to audit supporters of organizations engaged in First Amendment-protected lawful political speech,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And the snarky comments about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the obsession with Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS show that the IRS was targeting critics of the Obama administration. President Obama may want to continue to lie about his IRS scandal. These documents tell the truth – his IRS hated conservatives and was willing to illegally tax and audit citizens to shut down opposition to Barack Obama’s policies and reelection.”