{"id":43160,"date":"2013-06-18T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cnn-poll-did-white-house-order-irs-targeting\/43160\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:47:22","slug":"cnn-poll-did-white-house-order-irs-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cnn-poll-did-white-house-order-irs-targeting\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Poll: Did White House order IRS targeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/18\/cnn-poll-did-white-house-order-irs-targeting\/comment-page-4\/\">CNN Political<\/a><br \/>June 18, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups, according to a new national poll.<\/p>\n<p>And a CNN\/ORC International survey released Tuesday morning also indicates that a majority of the public says the controversy, which involves increased IRS scrutiny of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, is very important to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans argue that the Obama administration used the IRS to intimidate and harass political opponents. Democrats say poor management at the tax agency, rather than political bias, is to blame. Congressional sources on both sides say that interviews with IRS workers so far have found no evidence of political dealings by the White House. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, touting an independent IRS inspector general report, has said the scrutiny appears to have originated with \u201cIRS officials in Cincinnati,\u201d where the agency\u2019s tax exempt division is centered.<\/p>\n<p>Last month only 37% of the public thought that the IRS controversy led to the White House, with 55% saying that agency officials acted on their own without direct orders from Washington. Now the number who say the White House directed that IRS program has increased 10 points, to 47%, virtually the same as the 49% who believe the IRS agents acted on their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYounger Americans are much less likely than older Americans to believe in White House involvement, and there is, not surprisingly, a partisan divide as well,\u201d says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. \u201cBut the Obama administration may be losing independents on this matter. In May, only 36% felt the White House ordered the IRS to target conservative groups; now that number has crossed the 50% threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/18\/cnn-poll-did-white-house-order-irs-targeting\/comment-page-4\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013  at  11:30 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/cnn-poll-did-white-house-order-irs-targeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN Poll: Did White House order IRS targeting?\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN PoliticalJune 18, 2013 A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups, according to a new national poll. And a CNN\/ORC International survey released Tuesday morning also indicates that a majority of the public says the controversy, which involves increased IRS scrutiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}