The IRS is going to audit Breitbart News

Yesterday Breitbart News announced that the IRS was going to audit its tax returns for the year 2012 and questioned the motive behind the decision.

Here is more:

The company that runs the conservative Breitbart.com news site says the IRS has selected the network for an audit, in a move company executives suggest is politically motivated. Breitbart News Network, a California-based company which runs several conservative websites, says the IRS recently audited its 2012 financial information. “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.

The IRS refused to comment on this decision and that is okay because there is a privacy issue here. I have no problem with that and in fact they may have a legitimate reason for the audit.

However this is the same agency which targeted conservative groups before the 2012 election, and the list of possible abuses is much longer than that.

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Here goes with the alleged abuses of the IRS: the IRS paid $50,000 for illegally leaking the tax returns of the ‘National Organization for Marriage’ before the 2012 election, the agency has harassed Sarah Palin’s father 6 times since she ran for Vice President, an IRS employee illegally accessed Christine O’Donnell’s tax return while she was running for the Senate, and they were improperly scrutinizing the tax returns of political donors and candidates. I am sure I missed some but you get the idea.

And of course Harry Reid knew–or at least claimed he knew–what was in Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

So I ask you what you think; is this but a coincidence or is there more to it? This would be incredibly brazen in light of the spotlight the IRS is under unless the the agency has a legitimate reason, but I for one do not trust the IRS and I would not put it passed the agency…