1991 Survey of 800 IRS Agents Reveals They Believe They Have the Right to Lie to Congress

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"A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578482823301630836.html

The article delineates how over the decades the IRS has been used, mainly by Democratic administrations, to attack their opponents.

Administrations cited:

FDR, JFK, Clinton, Obama- Democrats

Nixon-Republican

Third paragraph from the bottom:

"The IRS has usually done an excellent job of stifling investigations of its practices. A 1991 survey of 800 IRS executives and managers by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics revealed that three out of four respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie when testifying before a congressional committee."

[DKW 86 7,726]

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