Bill Donohue: Obama’s IRS Targeted Catholic League Even Before He Became President

Prepare yourself: Every Conservative and religious group will claim to have fallen victim to the IRS. Cue: "Catholic League president Bill Donohue claims that President Barack Obama‘s IRS targeted the Catholic League — before Obama was even elected President — over anti-Obama speeches and articles he wrote." Just weeks after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, I was notified by the IRS that the Catholic League was under investigation for violating the IRS Code on political activities as it relates to 501(c)(3) organizations,” Donohue writes at (of all places!) NewsMax: The IRS was contacted on June 5, 2008, to launch a probe of the Catholic League, and the letter sent to me was dated Nov. 24, 2008. The June 5 letter was sent to the IRS by lawyers from Catholics United; it was mailed to Director Marsha Ramirez, director of Exempt Organizations Examinations, and to Lois G. Lerner, director of EO Division." .... "So, the IRS during the 2008 presidential campaign, before the election, under Republican President George W. Bush, and under a Bush-appointed Republican head of the IRS launched an investigation against Donohue’s Catholic League, and notified Donohue before Obama was even inaugurated, but Donohue wants readers to think it was Obama’s doing? Perhaps NewsMax readers are that dumb." Much more here: http://thenewcivilrigh...