All this information the IRS was collecting was given to who and for what purpose? I would bet that the answers to these specific questions were given to progressive groups and the Obama re-election campaign.
In other words, the IRS was actively interviewing private citizens and organizations to provide intel to left wing activists.
All that information, and more, is probably in the giant database in Utah.
“All this information the IRS was collecting was given to who and for what purpose?”
I would start with Harry Reid. Also Levin, Franken and Schumer. All 4 wanted the IRS to report o Republicans. Since they did, the question for these crooks should be, who did they ask to get that information.
Not so much that the information was intrusive, as the degree of intrusion was selectively DIFFERENT for various groups. It the intrusion seemed too great, a complaint should have been sufficient to cause the inquiry to be curtailed or even dropped.
And if any of the more “progressive” applicants complained (assuming any even remotely similar request was made of them), the inquiry was either withdrawn, or at least made much less onerous.
But the really excessive TIME delays, where when even if the information was provided, the application was simply not acted upon, and perhaps worse, the information contained was forwarded to some agency whose purpose was to conduct opposition research.
The Staatssicherheit (Stasi) of East Germany used similar tactics.
It was given to a left wing group founded by a couple that made $millions off the mortgage crisis and avid Obama supporters.
Levin was all over this earlier in the week.
Soros’s group ProPublica already pre-emptively has announced that the information was delivered to it.