Bloomberg - Obama Forces Out U.S. IRS Chief in Bid to Contain Damage

By Richard Rubin, Bloomberg.com

President Barack Obama forced out the head of the Internal Revenue Service over the agency’s selective screening of nonprofit groups, as the administration sought to contain scandals imperiling its second-term agenda.

Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, resigned as lawmakers questioned why the agency used ideological terms such as “tea party” to subject some groups’ applications for tax-exempt status to tougher scrutiny. . . .

The American Center for Law and Justice will be filing civil lawsuits next week on behalf of affected tea party groups, said executive director Jordan Sekulow.

The IRS targeting of tea party groups shows “it cannot be trusted” to enforce the 2010 health-care law, said Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a former IRS attorney. . . .

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