Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election

Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election

"[I]f this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different."

NBC's Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS  deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election: The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened.

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