Thread: Michele Bachmann: IRS admission means credibility of 2012 election in doubt

Michele Bachmann: IRS admission means credibility of 2012 election in doubt

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MAY 13, 2013
BY: JOE NEWBY

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"But why would an administration ever confess to such a flagrant misuse of politics and power?" Bob Unruh asked.

According to Bachmann, it's all aboutBenghazi, which she called the “soft underbelly” of the Obama administration.

“I was in that Benghazi hearing,” she said. “I think the Obama administration is desperate to spin Benghazi, and they can’t. I think they saved this story up for a day like today so that conservatives would focus on this admission.”

But Bachmann says the plan won't work.

“Conservatives can handle two shocking stories at the same time,” she told WND. “Both are equally unconstitutional and call into question the very president.”

"Bachmann told WND it’s stunning that the Obama administration used 'the federal agency feared most by Americans to intimidate conservative and tea party organizations during an election year,'” Unruh wrote.

She also said it's "reasonable" to ask if theIRS "will deny or delay access to health care” for conservatives, given its enforcement role in Obamacare.

In its apology, the IRS said the groups were targeted by "low-level workers," but Bachmann questioned that explanation.

“A low-level functionary in Ohio would have zero jurisdictional authority to intimidate an applicant from New Mexico, or California or Georgia,” she said.

That would have to come from the highest level of government, she explained.

“The Obama administration wants us to believe low-level functionaries are the ones responsible for making this decision,” she said. “That is impossible, laughable. I can tell you within the IRS, the agency is very sensitive of jurisdictional authority.

And if Obama is willing to use the IRS for political reasons, she wondered, what agency would he not use?

“We learned that during an election, [Obama] interfered with the First Amendment rights of conservatives and tea party members by intimidating and harassing these organizations,” she said.

Bachmann called for congressional hearings to determine what Unruh described as the "exact level of rot" within the administration. On Sunday, The Blaze reported that the pro-Israel organization Z Street claims that it was also targeted by the IRS, which, according to one agent, was “carefully scrutinizing organizations that are in any way connected with Israel.”

“Once again, it appears the Obama administration is blatantly lying to the American people,” she said. “People can rightly ask questions [about] the credibility of the elections."

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