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Another IRS Abuse

06/10/2014

Lois Lerner's office sent confidential taxpayer data to the FBI.

By James Freeman

Updated June 10, 2014 9:01 a.m. ET

In a Monday letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, Reps. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) of the House Oversight Committee reveal still another IRS abuse of conservatives.

In October of 2010, apparently without a court order, the IRS sent 21 computer disks containing 1.1 million pages of tax-return documents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to the Justice Department, the massive data dump included public returns from non-profit groups but also taxpayer information that by law the IRS is required to keep confidential. Reps. Issa and Jordan ask in their letter for information relating to the preparation and transmittal of the data.

How did these documents wind up at the FBI? In September of 2010, IRS officials including Lois Lerner and Sarah Hall Ingram helped the New York Times NYT in Your Value Your Change Short position prepare a story about non-profit policy groups ......