{"id":12425,"date":"2013-06-05T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T12:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T12:54:47","slug":"irs-to-group-give-up-free-speech-get-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2013\/06\/05\/irs-to-group-give-up-free-speech-get-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS to Group: Give Up Free Speech, Get Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been uncovered that the IRS not only tried to bribe a group to give up their right to free speech in exchange for tax exempt status, they also leaked confidential donor information to an opposing website.<\/p>\n<p>The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/irs-office-that-targeted-tea-party-also-disclosed-confidential-docs\">ProPublica says<\/a> the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/06\/04\/National-Organization-of-Marriage-Chairman-IRS-Leaked-Info-About-Group-s-Donors-to-Liberal-Groups\">gave the progressive group nine confidential applications<\/a> of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?width=520&#038;video_pcode=9kcm06PtVGNZkFkXR2898mHnBha_&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=Y1NXI1YzqTvaiVMuv-7d1j0wYERvLS5F&#038;embedCode=Y1NXI1YzqTvaiVMuv-7d1j0wYERvLS5F&#038;height=300\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?width=520&#038;embedCode=NuZnQ1Yzou-KF00XPIymSSNHSlaNy2SQ&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=NuZnQ1Yzou-KF00XPIymSSNHSlaNy2SQ&#038;height=300&#038;video_pcode=9kcm06PtVGNZkFkXR2898mHnBha_\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been uncovered that the IRS not only tried to bribe a group to give up their right to free speech in exchange for tax exempt status, they also leaked confidential donor information to an opposing website. The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12429,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/12429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}