One News Now - IRS cracking down on tea party?

March 9, 2012

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By Chad Groening, OneNewsNow.com

A Christian law firm is defending nearly 20 tea party organizations from apparent intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service. . . .

David French is a senior counsel at the American Center for Law & Justice, which is representing at least 16 tea party organizations targeted by these letters. He says there appears to be a coordinated effort to intimidate these groups during an election year.

"Quite frankly for a lot of these groups, it's intimidating," says French. "And to be clear, these are not groups that have been accused of any wrongdoing. They're simply groups applying for a status that has been routinely granted to hundreds and hundreds of other groups.". . .

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