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Since the audit is being continued AFTER Clinton left office, it is obviously not politically motivated.

If Bush intervened, THAT would be politically motivated, wouldn't it?

Tough luck, Larry. My sister got audited. My dad was audited twice. Why do you think you are better than my dad or sister? What do you have to hide?

Where is all that money coming from? My bet is Hillary and Terry McAuliffe.

"Tough luck, Larry. My sister got audited. My dad was audited twice. Why do you think you are better than my dad or sister? What do you have to hide?"

Miss Marple, do you not believe that you have the right to know why certain people get targed for IRS audits? Especially when the IRS does not have any proof of criminal wrong doing and does not publish standards on who gets audited and who doesn't? This doesn't seem like equal treatment under the law to me and this certainly leaves room for biased leeway in the law. I am surprised that you are not questioning the IRS more.

Did you know that Michael Chertoff looked into this and said there was no evidence that there was any political manipulations behind this audit?

And he told Klayman that, too.

On March 13, Chertoff wrote Klayman that ''after careful consideration, we have determined that a criminal investigation of this matter is not warranted.'' He passed the complaint to Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility to check on charges of misconduct against the department, but on April 1 it reported to Klayman no basis for an investigation.

Ah, the esteemed Miss M. joins in. Let's leave JW out of this for a moment and read what Novak wrote today, per my #40 on this thread.

The Justice Department's stonewall fortifies considerations of privacy and lack of congressional interest in protecting the IRS from scrutiny. The IRS never has explained its intrusion during the Clinton administration's first year when the new president reshaped the White House travel office. Two days after White House sources suggested kickbacks were paid to travel office functionaries from charter airlines, a charter used by the White House--Ultrair of Nashville, Tenn.--was visited by IRS agents for an unannounced audit.

In 1996, the conservative (and anti-Clinton) Western Journalism Center in Los Angeles was hit by an IRS audit from which it never fully recovered. Judicial Watch filed a complaint in behalf of the WJC on May 13, 1998, and the IRS audit of Klayman's organization was launched Oct. 9, 1998. Also swiftly visited with audits were Clinton accusers Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers, former travel office chief Billy Dale, and even Katherine Prudhomme, who once bothered Vice President Al Gore by asking about Broaddrick--plus assorted conservative organizations.

I'm less interested in JW than these other people, or are they just chosen at random for audit?