The IRS Apologizes for Acting the Tyrant (This Time)

When several conservative groups complained that the IRS had begun to harass and intimidate them in last year's election campaign, both the government and the liberal's lapdog media loudly dismissed the complaints as nothing but conspiracy theories, unnecessary whining, and even outright lies.

Remember?

I wonder then how much news coverage we'll see on this story.

The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday.

Organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.

In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.

"That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. That's not how we go about selecting cases for further review," Lerner said at a conference sponsored by the American Bar Association.

"The IRS would like to apologize for that," she added…

This time, anyhow.

I guess the dangers of government clerks acting as judge, jury and executioner are a lot closer than what mainstream media thought.