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Wynton Hall<\/strong> The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica\u00a0says<\/a> the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was\u00a0pending.<\/p>\n The commendable admission lends further evidence to the lengths the IRS went during an election cycle to silence tea party and limited government voices.<\/p>\n ProPublica says the documents the IRS gave them were \u201cnot supposed to be made public\u201d:<\/p>\n The same IRS office that deliberately targeted<\/a>\u00a0conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica\u00a0late last year<\/a>\u2026 In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved\u2013meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six<\/a> of those<\/a> public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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