CNN's Dana Bash reports on claims Tea Party groups were targeted by the IRS. Jeffrey Toobin advises judgment should be reserved until more facts surface.
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What is the IRS guilty of? According to Liberals the following:
1) Felony – stalking Conservatives
2) Felony – harassing Conservatives
3) Felony – abusing a federal office
4) Felony – abusing an IRS position
5) Felony federal hate crimes. Targeting a group – Conservatives
6) Felony – causing major damage to victims (many victims paid high accounting and attorney fees exceeding tens of thousands of dollars
7) Misdemeanor – disorderly conduct.
All IRS agents or anyone targeting Conservatives needs to be charges. Probably thousands of IRS agents are guilty of these crimes.