Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) joined Maria Bartiromo this morning to discuss the Obama IRS scandal. Terry compared the IRS targeting of conservatives to Soviet-style tactics.
Maria Bartiromo: What do you think those emails say? What do you think this is going to prove?
Rep. Lee Terry: Well, again, as a lawyer when you’re trying to hide something it means you have something to hide. So we may not know the specifics of what it says but it’s got to be pretty damaging that there was a real conspiracy here to use Soviet-style tactics, to use government resources, against your political opponents. And, I think there will be direct evidence of that. Now whether it goes into the White House or not is yet to be determined but certainly the amount of fight in them to prevent it would certainly raise that question that it goes to the White House.
Once again…
The IRS Conservative Targeting Scandal involved:
- Hundreds of conservative groups were targeted
- At least 5 pro-Israel groups
- Constitutional groups
- Groups that criticized Obama administration
- At least two pro-life groups
- An 83 year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor
- A 180 year-old Baptist paper
- A Texas voting-rights group
- A Hollywood conservative group was targeted and harassed
- Conservative activists and businesses
- At least one conservative Hispanic group
- IRS continued to target groups even after the scandal was exposed
- 10% of Tea Party donors were audited by the IRS
- And… 100% of the 501(c)(4) Groups Audited by IRS Were Conservative
