It may seem small, but an accusation made by the National Organization for Marriage has explosive implications. The big question is did IRS leak donor information about former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney?
Once again, The Daily Caller has the scoop:
In a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller, the organization has asked the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to “investigate and learn the source of the breach and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law.” It also provided evidence suggesting the leak might have been the result of “IRS employee misconduct.”
The dispute stems from a March 30 post on the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) website, which boasted that it had obtained documents revealing that Mitt Romney “donated $10,000 to the National Organization for Marriage [NOM] in 2008 …”
TDC said there were
dead giveaways in the document posted online by a blog directory that also carries some news content.
Releasing such information without permission is against the law.
Apparently, NOM has been trying to get to the truth for quite awhile.
Regardless of one's position on marriage, all of us should agree that no one's information should be pilfered and leaked by IRS, if the allegations prove true.
Some have accused the Obama administration of using
IRS as an attack machine. The Clinton administration was accused of doing the same. Using a federal agency in that manner is a violation of the first amendment to the Constitution and others as well.
(Filed by Kay B. Day/April 12, 2012)
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 5:06PM