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When Obama's DOJ Isn't Monitoring Reporters, His IRS is Auditing Bre...itbart News
Remember when President Obama's Department of Justice got caught secretly monitoring the phone calls and emails of reporters from the Associated Press, Fox News and many other news outlets? Remember when DOJ attorneys classified Fox News' James Rosen as a criminal conspirator in court documents, monitored his work and personal emails, read his work and personal emails, monitored his phones, seized phone numbers, monitored his movements and even monitored the phones to his parent's house on Staten Island.
Now Obama's IRS, the same IRS embroiled in controversy over the targeting of conservative groups, is auditing Breitbart News, which says the IRS just recently audited its 2012 financial information.
The company that runs the conservative Breitbart.com news site says the IRS has selected the network for another audit, a move company executives suggest is politically motivated. Breitbart News Network is a California-based company which runs several conservative websites.
"The Obama administration's timing on this is exquisite, but try as they might through various methods to silence us, we will only get more emboldened," Stephen K. Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News Network, said in a written statement. Larry Solov, president and CEO of Breitbart News Network said: "We stand ready to cooperate with the Internal Revenue Service on its audit of our company, but this will not deter us in the least from continuing our aggressive coverage of this president or his administration."
A random audit of a website that does extensive investigative work exposing corruption in the Obama administration? Coincidence? Hardly. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has already sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about the audit, calling it a direct assault on free speech and the First Amendment, adding that moves like this used to be considered unacceptable: "For the IRS to behave like a partisan political organization, targeting individual's, community groups and media organizations whose views differ from the President's, would represent a gross abuse of power. It would undermine the statutory mission and integrity of the IRS. And it would likely subject IRS employees to criminal prosecution." http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/09/10/when-obamas-doj-isnt-monitoring-reporters-his-irs-is-auditing-them-n1889818See More
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