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         Official Says Treasury Department Had No Role in IRS Targeting

   by VOA News

   The Treasury Department's number-two official said his agency played no
   role in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative
   groups.

   The U.S. tax collecting agency has revealed it subjected Tea Party and
   other conservative groups seeking non-profit status to extra scrutiny
   from 2010-2012.
   In a prepared statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform
   Committee, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin said he learned last
   year a Treasury inspector general was investigating the IRS targeting.
   He testified he told the inspector general to follow the facts wherever
   they lead and Treasury would stay out of the way.
   As he opened the hearing, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said IRS
   officials who knew earlier about the targeting did not tell Congress
   about it. "Congress was misled.  The American people were misled,'' he
   told lawmakers.
   Lawmakers are trying to learn whether the IRS targeting was politically
   motivated.
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