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" Interesting that this comes out on Friday of a four-day holiday weekend. What are &amp;quot;the qualifications and experience&amp;quot; of Break the Bonds instructors? Does the group &amp;quot;present a sufficiently full and fair explanation of the relevant facts&amp;quot; about the West Bank and Gaza? Provide copies of pamphlets, brochures or other literature distributed at group events? Reveal all fees collected and &amp;quot;any voluntary contributions&amp;quot; made at group functions? Provide a template of petitions, postcards and any other material used to influence legislation, and a detailed accounting of the time and money spent to influence state legislators? The controversy that erupted in May has focused on an ideological question: Were conservative groups singled out for special treatment based on their politics, or did the I.R.S. equally target liberal groups? But a closer look at the I.R.S. operation suggests that the problem was less about ideology and more about how a process instructing reviewers to &amp;quot;be on the lookout&amp;quot; for selected terms was applied to any group that mentioned certain words in its application. And the salty tears around the Noonan manse reach high tide. Chi Eta Phi Sorority, a mainly African-American nurses&amp;#039; society that advertises its mission as &amp;quot;social change,&amp;quot; applied for 501(c)(3) charitable status on June 24, 2011, days before the I.R.S. tightened its scrutiny of tax exemption applications. The organization fell under a &amp;quot;group rulings&amp;quot; flag in one of the lookout lists. Two years and 73 questions later, Chi Eta Phi is still waiting for the I.R.S.&amp;#039;s Cincinnati office, which handles the tax exemption applications, to respond. Tyranny! Jackboots! Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI!! Republican investigators say conservative groups singled out by the I.R.S. have received far rougher treatment than liberal groups. Yet some Republicans have tempered their statements on the controversy. &amp;quot;We haven&amp;#039;t proved political motivation,&amp;quot; said Representative Charles Boustany Jr., a Louisiana Republican who, as the chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, is leading one inquiry. Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, said that in retrospect, suggestions that Mr. Obama had orchestrated an I.R.S. attack on his political enemies were unwarranted. &amp;quot;Presidents have always been very careful about maintaining the appearance of keeping hands off the I.R.S.,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have any reason to believe there wasn&amp;#039;t targeting of conservatives, but it might well have been a lot more than that as well.&amp;quot;  I&amp;#039;m sorry, Congressman Issa, but the senator is going to be in a meeting until 2019. Would you like his voice mail? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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